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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... reason a constant guard over imagination . " Retrospect of conduct and self - examination are called for . " He therefore that would govern his actions by the laws of virtue must regulate his thoughts by those n of reason . Wicked ...
... reason a constant guard over imagination . " Retrospect of conduct and self - examination are called for . " He therefore that would govern his actions by the laws of virtue must regulate his thoughts by those n of reason . Wicked ...
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... reason . I have quoted at length from Rambler 29 because it so well reveals Johnson's ambivalent attitude toward clas- sical literature and at the same time indicates its pervasive influence upon him . What he gathers from this Horatian ...
... reason . I have quoted at length from Rambler 29 because it so well reveals Johnson's ambivalent attitude toward clas- sical literature and at the same time indicates its pervasive influence upon him . What he gathers from this Horatian ...
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... reason are our hopes and fears ? Dryden . His Johnson's attitude toward Stoicism is mixed . ambivalence can be seen in Rambler 66 , which contains an attack on philosophers who , not content to control the excesses of human desires and ...
... reason are our hopes and fears ? Dryden . His Johnson's attitude toward Stoicism is mixed . ambivalence can be seen in Rambler 66 , which contains an attack on philosophers who , not content to control the excesses of human desires and ...
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accept Achilles admits Adventurers total advice Aeneid Amores asks beauty begins Boswell Caesar classical context criticism Damasippus Damoetas death discussion Dryden Eclogues Elphinston epigram Epistles example fame faults fear fortune Francis girl Greek Greek Anthology happy Hippolytus Homer hope Horace Horace's Odes Human Wishes Johnson believes Johnson chose Johnson concludes Johnson's essay Johnson's Rambler Juvenal learning letter Lewis lines literary live Loeb Lollius London Lucan Maecenas marriage Martial Metamorphoses mind moral essay motto motto for Rambler motto Johnson Ovid Ovid's passions pastoral Persius Phaedrus Pindar pleasure poem poet Poetica poetry praise quae quid quod quotation quotes Ramblers total readers Remedia Amoris rich Roman Samuel Johnson Satire X Satire XIV says Statius story tells Thyestes Tibullus tion trifles truth Vanity of Human verse vice Virgil virtue warns wealth wife words writers young youth