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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In Satire III , Persius alternately acts the part of the youth being satirized and assumes the role of monitor , who expostulates with the young man and tries to recall him to a sense of the follies and wasted opportunities of his life ...
In Satire III , Persius alternately acts the part of the youth being satirized and assumes the role of monitor , who expostulates with the young man and tries to recall him to a sense of the follies and wasted opportunities of his life ...
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The free - born but undisciplined youth does not know how to stay on his horse , and is afraid to go hunting . He is more skilled in games , whether you ask him to play with the Grecian hoop or with dice , forbidden by laws unfavorable ...
The free - born but undisciplined youth does not know how to stay on his horse , and is afraid to go hunting . He is more skilled in games , whether you ask him to play with the Grecian hoop or with dice , forbidden by laws unfavorable ...
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Johnson , in Rambler 196 , perceives a similarity in the experience of life's gradual movement from youth to old age . Time teaches us what we may not have wanted to know ; and we find our minds to have changed without our being aware ...
Johnson , in Rambler 196 , perceives a similarity in the experience of life's gradual movement from youth to old age . Time teaches us what we may not have wanted to know ; and we find our minds to have changed without our being aware ...
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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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