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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Mrs. Piozzi tells of a game she played with Johnson in reference to his Idler essays , which had been published without any mottoes . He said he could furnish classical mottoes for all of them in a couple of hours , and proceeded to ...
Mrs. Piozzi tells of a game she played with Johnson in reference to his Idler essays , which had been published without any mottoes . He said he could furnish classical mottoes for all of them in a couple of hours , and proceeded to ...
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He ought to seek relief afterwards rather than to have sought prevention beforehand . He ought not to try to prevent sorrow by refusing to enter into deep friendship with his fellows . In an apparent reference to Stoicism , Johnson ...
He ought to seek relief afterwards rather than to have sought prevention beforehand . He ought not to try to prevent sorrow by refusing to enter into deep friendship with his fellows . In an apparent reference to Stoicism , Johnson ...
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This reference to naval graft as the culmination of a series of examples of corruption would seem to be a weak climax to his poem . Johnson , not believing that Horace would so nod , thinks that the reference to admirals must allude to ...
This reference to naval graft as the culmination of a series of examples of corruption would seem to be a weak climax to his poem . Johnson , not believing that Horace would so nod , thinks that the reference to admirals must allude to ...
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| Title | Motto, Context, Essay: The Classical Background of Samuel Johnson's Rambler and Adventurer Essays |
| Author | Robert C. Olson |
| Publisher | University Press of America, 1984 |
| Original from | the University of Michigan |
| Digitized | 10 Mar 2008 |
| ISBN | 0819142352, 9780819142351 |
| Length | 352 pages |
| Subjects | › Literary Collections / Essays |
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