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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... 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 pick nine before the game was interrupted . Boswell also ...
... 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 pick nine before the game was interrupted . Boswell also ...
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... try to prevent sorrow by refusing to enter into deep friend- ship with his fellows . In an apparent reference to Stoicism , Johnson insists that no one can completely shut out grief : " An attempt to preserve life R - 47-2.
... try to prevent sorrow by refusing to enter into deep friend- ship with his fellows . In an apparent reference to Stoicism , Johnson insists that no one can completely shut out grief : " An attempt to preserve life R - 47-2.
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... reference to naval graft as the cul- mination 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 ...
... reference to naval graft as the cul- mination 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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