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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When were the means for vice more abundant ? When was the bent toward avarice more open ? When was gambling the rational principle of life ? What age so large a crop of vices bore Or when was avarice extended more ?
When were the means for vice more abundant ? When was the bent toward avarice more open ? When was gambling the rational principle of life ? What age so large a crop of vices bore Or when was avarice extended more ?
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Wax for bending into vice , scornful to his guardians . The youth-Yielding like wax , th ' impressive folly bears ; Rough to reproof , and slow to future cares . Francis . Rambler 191 , like nos . 40 and 147 , has a motto from Ars ...
Wax for bending into vice , scornful to his guardians . The youth-Yielding like wax , th ' impressive folly bears ; Rough to reproof , and slow to future cares . Francis . Rambler 191 , like nos . 40 and 147 , has a motto from Ars ...
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Nor knows our youth , of noblest race , To mount the manag'd steed , or urge the chace : More skill'd in the mean arts of vice , The whirling troque , or law - forbidden dice . Francis . . 1 For the third time , Johnson uses this same ...
Nor knows our youth , of noblest race , To mount the manag'd steed , or urge the chace : More skill'd in the mean arts of vice , The whirling troque , or law - forbidden dice . Francis . . 1 For the third time , Johnson uses this same ...
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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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