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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I was young but poor ; now old , I am rich . Alone of all men wretched both young and old , Who then had power to use when I had nothing . Now when I do not have power to use it , I have wealth . Young was I once and poor , now rich and ...
I was young but poor ; now old , I am rich . Alone of all men wretched both young and old , Who then had power to use when I had nothing . Now when I do not have power to use it , I have wealth . Young was I once and poor , now rich and ...
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Whoever wishes to be rich , wishes to be rich at once . The lust of wealth can never bear delay . Johnson . Early in The Vanity of Human Wishes , Johnson had told how men would kill or otherwise tyrannize for the sake of gold : For gold ...
Whoever wishes to be rich , wishes to be rich at once . The lust of wealth can never bear delay . Johnson . Early in The Vanity of Human Wishes , Johnson had told how men would kill or otherwise tyrannize for the sake of gold : For gold ...
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Do this , as many others still do nowadays , and you will be rich to yourself and poor to your friends . No man expects ( for who so much a sot , Who has the times he lives in so forgot ? ) What Seneca , what Piso us'd to send ...
Do this , as many others still do nowadays , and you will be rich to yourself and poor to your friends . No man expects ( for who so much a sot , Who has the times he lives in so forgot ? ) What Seneca , what Piso us'd to send ...
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