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 16
Unlike the ribald whose licentious jest , Pollutes his banquet and insults his guest ; From wealth and grandeur easy to descend , Thou joy'est to lose the master in the friend ; We round thy board the cheerful menials see , Gay with the ...
Unlike the ribald whose licentious jest , Pollutes his banquet and insults his guest ; From wealth and grandeur easy to descend , Thou joy'est to lose the master in the friend ; We round thy board the cheerful menials see , Gay with the ...
Page 55
Ill - gotten gains keep growing , but then something is always lacking to limited wealth . But , while in heaps his wicked wealth ascends , He is not of his wish possess'd ; There's something wanting still to make him bless'd .
Ill - gotten gains keep growing , but then something is always lacking to limited wealth . But , while in heaps his wicked wealth ascends , He is not of his wish possess'd ; There's something wanting still to make him bless'd .
Page 119
Johnson returns several times to the subject of wise management of wealth . Among his excursions on this topic is Rambler 120 , for which Horace furnishes the motto . Phraates , restored to the throne of Armenia , cannot be happy ...
Johnson returns several times to the subject of wise management of wealth . Among his excursions on this topic is Rambler 120 , for which Horace furnishes the motto . Phraates , restored to the throne of Armenia , cannot be happy ...
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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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