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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Undisappointed in designs , With native honours virtue shines ; Nor takes up pow'r , nor lays it down , As giddy rabbles smile or frown . Elphinston . Horace emphasizes military virtue in this ode , which features the well - known line ...
Undisappointed in designs , With native honours virtue shines ; Nor takes up pow'r , nor lays it down , As giddy rabbles smile or frown . Elphinston . Horace emphasizes military virtue in this ode , which features the well - known line ...
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The child's great benefit is the virtue of his parents and chastity by a firm covenant that avoids the bed of another . Not there the guiltless step - dame knows The baleful draught for orphans to compose : No wife high - portion'd ...
The child's great benefit is the virtue of his parents and chastity by a firm covenant that avoids the bed of another . Not there the guiltless step - dame knows The baleful draught for orphans to compose : No wife high - portion'd ...
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Phraates is restored to the throne of Cyrus , but Virtue , dissenting from the populace , removes him from the number of the blessed , and teaches the people not to use false words about him . 1 True virtue can the croud unteach Their ...
Phraates is restored to the throne of Cyrus , but Virtue , dissenting from the populace , removes him from the number of the blessed , and teaches the people not to use false words about him . 1 True virtue can the croud unteach Their ...
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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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