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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For he that but conceives a crime in thought , Contracts the danger of an actual fault . Creech . In a discussion with his friend Calvinus in Satire XIII , Juvenal urges his friend not to try to get even with the false friend who had ...
For he that but conceives a crime in thought , Contracts the danger of an actual fault . Creech . In a discussion with his friend Calvinus in Satire XIII , Juvenal urges his friend not to try to get even with the false friend who had ...
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Johnson must subsequently have had second thoughts or at any rate have decided that more should be said on the ... He may have thought back to his own great poem of the year before , The Vanity of Human Wishes , and his hopes that it ...
Johnson must subsequently have had second thoughts or at any rate have decided that more should be said on the ... He may have thought back to his own great poem of the year before , The Vanity of Human Wishes , and his hopes that it ...
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Papilius had thought that his duty in life was to be cheerful and entertain his friends , especially the ladies . A ladies ' wit , he discovered , was not the kind which " by some peculiar acuteness discovers resemblances in objects ...
Papilius had thought that his duty in life was to be cheerful and entertain his friends , especially the ladies . A ladies ' wit , he discovered , was not the kind which " by some peculiar acuteness discovers resemblances in objects ...
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| Title | Motto, Context, Essay: The Classical Background of Samuel Johnson's Rambler and Adventurer Essays |
| Author | Robert C. Olson |
| Publisher | University Press of America, 1984 |
| Original from | the University of Michigan |
| Digitized | 10 Mar 2008 |
| ISBN | 0819142352, 9780819142351 |
| Length | 352 pages |
| Subjects | › Literary Collections / Essays |
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