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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... says , he is like everyone else . The point of the whole poem is that no one really desires self - knowledge . The poet advises Alcibiades , and any reader , not to listen to the mob , and quit pretending : Respue quod non es ; cast off ...
... says , he is like everyone else . The point of the whole poem is that no one really desires self - knowledge . The poet advises Alcibiades , and any reader , not to listen to the mob , and quit pretending : Respue quod non es ; cast off ...
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... says that he was despon- dent after his bankruptcy and about to jump off the Fabrician bridge , but Stertinus the Stoic came along and induced him to spare himself . Stertinus told him not to act out of fear that others , who also were ...
... says that he was despon- dent after his bankruptcy and about to jump off the Fabrician bridge , but Stertinus the Stoic came along and induced him to spare himself . Stertinus told him not to act out of fear that others , who also were ...
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... says another . Who dares think one thing , and another tell , My heart detests him as the gates of Hell . Pope . In Book IX of Homer's Iliad , Odysseus and Ajax are sent by Agamemnon to plead with Achilles to rejoin the Achaean army ...
... says another . Who dares think one thing , and another tell , My heart detests him as the gates of Hell . Pope . In Book IX of Homer's Iliad , Odysseus and Ajax are sent by Agamemnon to plead with Achilles to rejoin the Achaean army ...
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