Of this Literary Club Edition of the Works of Samuel Johnson Seven Hundred and Seventy-four Sets have been printed from type on Special Water Marked Paper, of which this Copy is N° 75°

HARVARD UNIVERSITY.

LIBRARY

OCT 1 4 1981

Pafraets Press Troy, New York 1903

NO.

CONTENTS

55 The gay widow's impatience of the growth of her daughter. The

history of Miss May-pole

56 The necessity of complaisance. The Rambler's grief for offend-
ing his correspondents

57 Sententious rules of frugality

58 The desire of wealth moderated by philosophy

59 An account of Suspirius, the human screech owl

60 The dignity and usefulness of biography

61 A Londoner's visit to the country

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66 Passion not to be eradicated. The views of women ill directed

67 The garden of Hope; a dream

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68 Every man chiefly happy or miserable at home. The opinion of

servants not to be despised

70 Different men virtuous in different degrees. The vicious not al-

ways abandoned

71 No man believes that his own life will be short

74 Peevishness equally wretched and offensive. The character of

Tetrica

114

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

tory of Melissa

120

76 The arts by which bad men are reconciled to themselves

127

77 The learned seldom despised but when they deserve contempt 132

78 The power of novelty. Mortality too familiar to raise apprehen-

sions

139

79 A suspicious man justly suspected

145

80 Variety necessary to happiness; a winter scene

151

81 The great rule of action. Debts of justice to be distinguished

from debts of charity

156

86 The danger of succeeding a great author: an introduction to

a criticism on Milton's versification

188

87 The reasons why advice is generally ineffectual

195

88 A criticism on Milton's versification. Elisions dangerous in

92 The accommodation of sound to the sense, often chimerical

225

93 The prejudices and caprices of criticism

234

94 An inquiry how far Milton has accommodated the sound to

the sense

240

99 The pleasures of private friendship. The necessity of similar

103 The prevalence of curiosity. The character of Nugaculus

104 The original of flattery. The meanness of venal praise

105 The universal register; a dream

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106 The vanity of an author's expectations. Reasons why good

authors are sometimes neglected

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316

107 Properantia's hopes of a year of confusion. The misery of

prostitutes

322

112 Too much nicety not to be indulged. The character of Eriphile 354