THE

RAMBLER;

A NEW EDITION,

CORRECTED FROM THE ORIGINALS,

WITH

A PREFACE,

HISTORICAL AND BIOGRAPHICAL,

BY ALEX CHALMERS, F.S.A.

VOL. II.

NEW-YORK,

PUBLISHED BY E. SARGEANT AND M. & W.WARD;
AND MUNROE AND FRANCIS, AND

EDWARD COTTON, BOSTON.

1811.

CONTENTS.

VOLUME II.

No.

54.

A

DEATH-BED the true School of Wis-

dom-the Effects of Death upon the

Survivors

55. The gay Widow's Impatience of the

Growth of her Daughter-the History

of Miss May-pole

56. The Necessity of Complaisance-the Ram-

bler's Grief for offending his corres-

pondents

57. Sententious Rules of Frugality

58. The Desire of Wealth moderated by Phi-

losophy . .

59. An Account of Suspirius the human

Screech-owl

60. The Dignity and Usefulness of Biography

61. A Londoner's Visit to the Country

62. A young Lady's impatience to see London

63. Inconstancy not always a Weakness.

64. The Requisites to true Friendship,

60bidah and the Hermit, an Eastern Story

Passion not to be eradicated-the views of

Women ill directed

31%

The Garden of Hope, a Dream

Every man chiefly happy or miserable at
A 2

JOHNSON.

No.

Home-the Opinion of Servants not to

be despised ..

69. The Miseries and Prejudices of old Age

70. Different Men virtuous in different De-

grees the vicious not always abandoned

71. No Man believes that his own Life will

be short

72. The Necessity of good Humour

73. The lingering Expectation of an Heir

74. Peevishness equally wretched and offen-

sive-the Character of Tetrica..

75. The World never known but by a Change

of Fortune-the History of Melissa .

76. The Arts by which bad men are reconciled

to themselves

77. The Learned seldom despised but when

they deserve Contempt.

.....

78. The Power of Novelty-Mortality too fa-

miliar to raise Apprehensions.

79. A suspicious Man justly suspected

80. Variety necessary to Happiness—a Winter

Scene.

81. The great Rule of Action-Debts of Jus-

tice to be distinguished from Debts of

Charity . .

82. The Virtuoso's Account of his Rarities

83. The Virtuoso's Curiosity justified.

84. A young Lady's Impatience of Control

85. The Mischiefs of total Idleness

JOHNSON

86. The Danger of succeeding a great Author;

an Introduction to a Criticism on Mil-

ton's Versification.

87. The Reasons why Advice is generally inef-
fectual

No.

88. A Criticism on Milton's Versification-

Elisions dangerous in English Poetry.

89. The Luxury of vain imagination.

90. The Pauses in English Poetry adjusted

91. The conduct of Patronage, an Allegory . .

9%. The Accommodation of Sound to Sense,
often chimerical

93. The Prejudices and Caprices of Criticism

94. An Inquiry how far Milton has accommo-

dated the Sound to the sense

95. The History of Pertinax the Sceptick

96. Truth, Falsehood, and Fiction, an Allegory

JOHNSON.

97 Advice to unmarried Ladies. . MR. RICHARDSON.

98. The Necessity of cultivating Politeness

99. The Pleasures of private Friendship-

the Necessity of similar Dispositions .

100. Modish Pleasures

MRS. CARTER.

101. A proper Audience necessary to a Wit JOHNSON.

102. The Voyage of Life . .

103 The Prevalence of Curiosity—the Charac-

ter of Nugaculus . .

104. The Original of Flattery—the Meanness
of venal Praise.

105. The Universal Register, a Dream
106. The Vanity of an Author's Expectations
-Reasons why good Authors are some-
times neglected ・ ・