Motto, Context, Essay: The Classical Background of Samuel Johnson's Rambler and Adventurer EssaysA helpful reference guide to the mottoes of Samuel Johnson's Rambler and Adventurer periodical essays. The author provides the context for each motto Johnson selected and relates the context to the content of the essay to which the motto is affixed. Provides a unique insight into Johnson's way of thinking as as essayist in a specific and detailed fashion. An invaluable aid to students and scholars of Johnson and 18th-century studies in general. |
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... readers , some laudatory and some negatively critical . In the words of his chosen motto he set the play of his readers ahead of his own work : Posthabui tamen illorum mea seria ludo . Meliboeus begins Eclogue 7 by telling of a ...
... readers , some laudatory and some negatively critical . In the words of his chosen motto he set the play of his readers ahead of his own work : Posthabui tamen illorum mea seria ludo . Meliboeus begins Eclogue 7 by telling of a ...
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... readers of Ovid , to relish such a confession of weak- ness and self - indulgence . He reminds his readers that the world in general , and the writer in particular , are hypersensitive to criticism . Their pride is hurt by the least ...
... readers of Ovid , to relish such a confession of weak- ness and self - indulgence . He reminds his readers that the world in general , and the writer in particular , are hypersensitive to criticism . Their pride is hurt by the least ...
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... readers , many are dilatory or read for factitious reasons . Nevertheless , he claims , books " have always a secret influence on the under- standing . " Regardless of readers ' motives , they will gain knowledge by reading : he that ...
... readers , many are dilatory or read for factitious reasons . Nevertheless , he claims , books " have always a secret influence on the under- standing . " Regardless of readers ' motives , they will gain knowledge by reading : he that ...
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