THE WORKS OF Samuel Johnson, LL.D. A NEW EDITION, IN TWELVE VOLUMES. WITH AN ESSAY ON HIS LIFE AND GENIUS, BY ARTHUR MURPHY, Esq. VOLUME THE FOURTH. LONDON: Printed for T. Longman, B. White and Son, B. Law, J. Dodfley, H. Baldwin, M DCC XCII. NUMB. Page 1 Difficulty of the first address. Practice of the epick poets, Convenience of periodical performances 2 The neceffity and danger of looking into futurity. Writers naturally fanguine. Their hopes liable to disappointment 3 An allegory on criticism 4 The modern form of romances preferable to the ancient. THE RAMBLE R. 9 5 A meditation on the Spring 6 Happiness not local 7 Retirement natural to a great mind. Its religious use The fondness of every man for his profeffion. The gra- 10 Four billets with their answers. Remarks on mafque rades 11 The folly of anger. The mifery of a peevish old age 13 The duty of fecrecy. The invalidity of all excufes for betraying fecrets I 7 14 20 27 33 40 46 53 58 66 73. 81. NUMB. Page 14 The difference between an author's writings and his conversation 15 The folly of cards. A Letter from a lady that has loft her money 16 The dangers and miferies of literary eminence 17 The frequent contemplation of death neceffary to moderate the paffions 18. The unhappiness of marriage caufed by irregular mo, tives of choice 116 19 The danger of ranging from one ftudy to another. The importance of the early choice of a profeffion 20 The folly and inconvenience of affectation 21 The anxieties of literature not less than those of publick ftations. The inequality of authors writings 29 The folly of anticipating misfortunes 30 The obfervance of Sunday recommended; an allegory 34 The uneafinefs and difguft of female cowardice 37 The true principles of pastoral poetry 38 The advantages of mediocrity. An Eaftern fable 42 The mifery of a modifh lady in folitude 43 The inconveniencies of precipitation and confidence. I 88 95 103 110 7 22 An allegory of wit and learning 23. The contrariety of criticism. The vanity of objection. J 123 131 137 144 25 Rafhness preferable to cowardice. Enterprize not to be repreffed 162 26 The mischief of extravagance, and mifery of dependance 168 27 An author's treatment from fix patrons 28 The various arts of felf-delufion 156 175 181 188 194 199 207 213 219 226 232 238 245 251 257 263 270 276 44 Religion NUMB. 44 Religion and fuperftition, a vifion 45 The caufes of disagreement in marriage 47 50 A virtuous old age always reverenced 51 The employments of a housewife in the country 52 The contemplation of the calamities of others, a remedy for grief 58 The defire of wealth moderated by philofophy 59 An account of Sufpirius the human fcreech-owl 60 The dignity and usefulness of biography 61 A Londoner's vifit to the country 62 A young lady's impatience to fee London 63 Inconftancy not always a weakness 64 The requifites to true friendship 53 The folly and mifery of a spendthrift 54 A death-bed the true fchool of wisdom. The effects of death upon the survivors 344 55 The gay widow's impatience of the growth of her daughter. The hiftory of mifs May-pole 351 56 The neceffity of complaifance. The Rambler's grief for offending his correfpondents 57 Sententious rules of frugality 65 Obidah and the hermit, an Eastern story 66 Paffion not to be eradicated. The views of women ill directed 67 The garden of hope, a dream 68 Every man chiefly happy or miserable at home. The opinion of fervants not to be despised Page 282 289 295 301 307 69 The miseries and prejudice of old age 70 Different men virtuous in different degrees. The vicious not always abandoned 313 319 325 332 338 357 364 370 376 381 387 394 400 406 412 418 423 429 435 441 THE |