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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... seems to beat the distant plain ; Hill , vales , and floods , appear already crost , And , ere he starts , a thousand steps are lost . Pope , Windsor Forest , 151-54 . About to begin is a chariot race , to be run by internationally ...
... seems to beat the distant plain ; Hill , vales , and floods , appear already crost , And , ere he starts , a thousand steps are lost . Pope , Windsor Forest , 151-54 . About to begin is a chariot race , to be run by internationally ...
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... seems to recognize a peevish element in these comments by Juve- nal . In any case , he uses for Rambler 50 the Juve- nalian motto about the young man who refuses respect to the old in order to refute Juvenal's apparent assumption that ...
... seems to recognize a peevish element in these comments by Juve- nal . In any case , he uses for Rambler 50 the Juve- nalian motto about the young man who refuses respect to the old in order to refute Juvenal's apparent assumption that ...
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... seems pleasant , but the expe- rienced fear it . To court the great ones , and to sooth their pride , Seems a sweet task to those that never tried ; But those that have , know well that danger's near . Creech . Horace warns the neophyte ...
... seems pleasant , but the expe- rienced fear it . To court the great ones , and to sooth their pride , Seems a sweet task to those that never tried ; But those that have , know well that danger's near . Creech . Horace warns the neophyte ...
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