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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Page 159
... social conversation that they had better not think that what they are saying is so all - fired important . If they put one social occasion in perspective with all that is happening in the world , they will speak without worry and ...
... social conversation that they had better not think that what they are saying is so all - fired important . If they put one social occasion in perspective with all that is happening in the world , they will speak without worry and ...
Page 168
... social conduct based on common sense and courtesy . It is possible , he thinks , to " descend with dignity . " n Johnson adapts advice Horace gave to creative writers aspiring to be poets and applies it not to the writing but to the social ...
... social conduct based on common sense and courtesy . It is possible , he thinks , to " descend with dignity . " n Johnson adapts advice Horace gave to creative writers aspiring to be poets and applies it not to the writing but to the social ...
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... social being . " It is " mere unmixed and genuine evil . " The motto from Lucan does not specify envy as the likely cause of discord between great rivals . But in its context , the civil war between Caesar and Pompey , it is evident ...
... social being . " It is " mere unmixed and genuine evil . " The motto from Lucan does not specify envy as the likely cause of discord between great rivals . But in its context , the civil war between Caesar and Pompey , it is evident ...
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accept Achilles admits Adventurers total advice Aeneid Amores asks beauty begins Boswell Caesar classical context criticism Damasippus Damoetas death discussion Dryden Eclogues Elphinston epigram Epistles example fame faults fear fortune Francis girl Greek Greek Anthology happy Hippolytus Homer hope Horace Horace's Odes Human Wishes Johnson believes Johnson chose Johnson concludes Johnson's essay Johnson's Rambler Juvenal learning letter Lewis lines literary live Loeb Lollius London Lucan Maecenas marriage Martial Metamorphoses mind moral essay motto motto for Rambler motto Johnson Ovid Ovid's passions pastoral Persius Phaedrus Pindar pleasure poem poet Poetica poetry praise quae quid quod quotation quotes Ramblers total readers Remedia Amoris rich Roman Samuel Johnson Satire X Satire XIV says Statius story tells Thyestes Tibullus tion trifles truth Vanity of Human verse vice Virgil virtue warns wealth wife words writers young youth