Rambler

THE

WORK S

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 FIFTH.

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CONTENTS

OF THE

FIFTH

VOLUM E.

CONTINUATION OF THE RAMBLER.

NUMB.

71 NO man believes that his own life will be short.

72 The neceffity of good-humour.

73 The lingering expectation of an heir.

74 Peevifhnefs equally wretched and offenfive. The cha-

racter of Tetrica..

75 The world never known but by a change of fortune.

The hiftory of Melissa.

76 The arts by which bad men are reconciled to them-

felves.

79 A fufpicious man juftly suspected.

80 Variety neceffary to happiness. A Winter scene.

81 The great rule of action. Debts of justice to be dif-

tinguished from debts of charity.

82 The virtuofo's account of his rarities.

77 The learned feldom despised but when they deserve

contempt..

78 The power of novelty. Mortality too familiar to raise

86 The danger of fucceeding a great author: An intro-

duction to a criticifm on Milton's verfification.

87 The reafons why advice is generally ineffectual.

88 A criticism on Milton's verfification. Elifions danger.

ous in English poetry.

89 The luxury of vain imagination.

90 The paufes in English poetry adjusted.

91 The conduct of patronage, an allegory.

92 The accommodation of found to fenfe, often chime-

rical.

93 The prejudices and caprices of criticism.

94 An inquiry how far Milton has accommodated the

found to the fenfe.

95 The hiftory of Pertinax the fceptick.

96 Truth, falfehood, and fiction, an allegory.

97 Advice to unmarried ladies.

98 The neceffity of cultivating politeness.

99 The pleasures of private friendship. The neceffity of

fimilar difpofitions.

100 Modish pleasures.

101 A proper audience neceffary to a wit.

102 The voyage of life.

103(The prevalence of curiofity. The character of Nu-
gaculus.

104 The original of flattery. The meannefs of venal
praise.

105 The universal register, a dream.

1c6 The vanity of an author's expectations. Reafons why
good authors are fometimes neglected.
107 Properantia's hopes of a year of confufion. The mi-
fery of prostitutes.

108 Life fufficient to all purposes if well employed.
109 The education of a fop.

110 Repentance ftated and explained. Retirement and
abstinence useful to repentance. /

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111 Youth made unfortunate by its hafte and eagerness. 253

112 Too much nicety not to be indulged. The character