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 63
... warned : learn justice . Hear , and be just . Johnson . Aeneas in Aeneid VI visits Hades , and comes at length to Tartarus ... warns whoever can hear him to learn to be just and not to offend the gods . He speaks in a loud voice . He In ...
... warned : learn justice . Hear , and be just . Johnson . Aeneas in Aeneid VI visits Hades , and comes at length to Tartarus ... warns whoever can hear him to learn to be just and not to offend the gods . He speaks in a loud voice . He In ...
Page 91
... warns the poet of the dangers inherent in the writing of satire . Persius defends himself by citing the effect that the satiric thrust of poems by Lucilius and Horace had in their day . The old comedy of Greece was also trenchant . The ...
... warns the poet of the dangers inherent in the writing of satire . Persius defends himself by citing the effect that the satiric thrust of poems by Lucilius and Horace had in their day . The old comedy of Greece was also trenchant . The ...
Page 138
... warn against hasty judgment . It is easy to accuse falsely those who work from a body of past literature . " No writer ... warns against rushing to judgment . 11 Daphnidis arcum Fregisti et calamos : quae tu , perverse R - 143-1 Rambler 143.
... warn against hasty judgment . It is easy to accuse falsely those who work from a body of past literature . " No writer ... warns against rushing to judgment . 11 Daphnidis arcum Fregisti et calamos : quae tu , perverse R - 143-1 Rambler 143.
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