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 10
... thought of vengeance from his mind , for as the motto chosen by Johnson insists , he who contemplates a crime is as guilty as if he had committed it . Rambler 8 is on the subject of controlling one's thoughts . Some months earlier than ...
... thought of vengeance from his mind , for as the motto chosen by Johnson insists , he who contemplates a crime is as guilty as if he had committed it . Rambler 8 is on the subject of controlling one's thoughts . Some months earlier than ...
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... thoughts or at any rate have decided that more should be said on the subject , for Rambler 52 is also a moral essay on ... thought back to his own great poem of the year before , The Vanity of Human Wishes , and his hopes that it would ...
... thoughts or at any rate have decided that more should be said on the subject , for Rambler 52 is also a moral essay on ... thought back to his own great poem of the year before , The Vanity of Human Wishes , and his hopes that it would ...
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... 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 dissimilar to ...
... 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 dissimilar to ...
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