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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... Sometimes he sent part of an essay to the printer while he was absorbed in composing the rest of it . Rambler 134 ... sometimes he wrote first and sometimes chose first . In a letter to Dr. Joseph Warton he says that he fur- nished " now ...
... Sometimes he sent part of an essay to the printer while he was absorbed in composing the rest of it . Rambler 134 ... sometimes he wrote first and sometimes chose first . In a letter to Dr. Joseph Warton he says that he fur- nished " now ...
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... sometimes ripened into fruit . A Here , then , is striking evidence that he frequently began his essay with a motto from the classics . " careless glance upon a favourite author " indicates as much . It follows that thinking about a ...
... sometimes ripened into fruit . A Here , then , is striking evidence that he frequently began his essay with a motto from the classics . " careless glance upon a favourite author " indicates as much . It follows that thinking about a ...
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... sometimes live ostenta- tiously , sometimes sparingly . He would sometimes sleep all day , sometimes all night . Never was anyone so inconsistent , Horace writes . However , a friend may ask Horace , " Have you no faults ? " He responds ...
... sometimes live ostenta- tiously , sometimes sparingly . He would sometimes sleep all day , sometimes all night . Never was anyone so inconsistent , Horace writes . However , a friend may ask Horace , " Have you no faults ? " He responds ...
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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