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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... writers against making spectacles of themselves ( derisum semel excep- tumque sinistre ) ; for the public enjoys quarrels of writers . Such verbal combat " gratifies the malevo- lence or curiosity of readers , and relieves the vacan ...
... writers against making spectacles of themselves ( derisum semel excep- tumque sinistre ) ; for the public enjoys quarrels of writers . Such verbal combat " gratifies the malevo- lence or curiosity of readers , and relieves the vacan ...
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... Writers who desire to be perfect will not easily be pleased with their own work . Johnson believes that modern writers , usually in too much of a hurry , fall far below ancient writers in the quality of their compositions . He also ...
... Writers who desire to be perfect will not easily be pleased with their own work . Johnson believes that modern writers , usually in too much of a hurry , fall far below ancient writers in the quality of their compositions . He also ...
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... writer's itch is harm- less . The poet loves to write and is not greedy for gain . Writers have often complained that there seem to be more writers than readers , and Johnson is no excep- tion . To him the age of generals and of ...
... writer's itch is harm- less . The poet loves to write and is not greedy for gain . Writers have often complained that there seem to be more writers than readers , and Johnson is no excep- tion . To him the age of generals and of ...
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accept Achilles admits Adventurers total advice Aeneid Amores asks beauty begins Boswell Caesar classical context criticism Damasippus Damoetas death discussion Dryden Eclogues Elphinston epigram Epistles example fame faults fear fortune Francis girl Greek Greek Anthology happy Hippolytus Homer hope Horace Horace's Odes Human Wishes Johnson believes Johnson chose Johnson concludes Johnson's essay Johnson's Rambler Juvenal learning letter Lewis lines literary live Loeb Lollius London Lucan Maecenas marriage Martial Metamorphoses mind moral essay motto motto for Rambler motto Johnson Ovid Ovid's passions pastoral Persius Phaedrus Pindar pleasure poem poet Poetica poetry praise quae quid quod quotation quotes Ramblers total readers Remedia Amoris rich Roman Samuel Johnson Satire X Satire XIV says Statius story tells Thyestes Tibullus tion trifles truth Vanity of Human verse vice Virgil virtue warns wealth wife words writers young youth