Nullius addictus jurare in verba magiftri,
Quo me cunque rapit tempeftas, deferor hofpes.

HOR.

THE FOURTEENTH EDITION.

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AN

23 FEB 1973

LIBRARY

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OF THE

SECOND

VOLUM É.

NUMB.

54 A death-bed the true school of wisdom. 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 neceffity of complaifance. The Rambler's grief for

offending his correfpondents.

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I

57 Sententious rules of frugality.

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 see London.

63 Inconftancy not always a weakness.

64 The requifites to true friendship.

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.

70

75

68 Every man chiefly happy or miferable at home. The

70 Different men virtuous in different degrees. The vici-

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

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

The history of Melissa.

118

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

felves.

125

77 The

NUMB.

77 The learned feldom despised but when they deferve con-

tempt.

78 The power of Novelty. Mortality too familiar to raise

apprehenfions.

79 A suspicious man justly suspected.

80 Variety neceffary to happiness. A winter fcene.

81 The great rule of action. Debts of juftice to be distin-

guished from debts of charity.

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129

136

142

147

152

86 The danger of succeeding a great author: An introduc-

tion to a criticism on Milton's verfification.

87 The reasons why advice is generally ineffectual.

88 A criticism on Milton's-verfification. Elifions dangerous

in English poetry.

89 The luxury of vain imagination.

182

189

194

200

90 The paufes in English poetry adjusted.

206

91 The conduct of patronage, an allegory..

212

92 The accommodation of found to fenfe, often chimeri-

cal.

218

93 The prejudices and caprices of criticism.

227

94 An enquiry how far Milton has accommodated the found

to the fenfe.

232

95 The history of Pertinax the sceptick.

240

96 Truth, falfehood, and fiction, an allegory..

246

97 Advice to unmarried ladies.

252

98 The neceffity of cultivating politeness.

99 The pleasures of private friendship. The neceffity of

103 The prevalence of curiofity. The character of Nuga-

culus.

287

104 The original of flattery. The meanness of venal praife. 293

105 The univerfal regifter, a dream.

299

THE

THE

RAMBLER.

NUMB. 54. SATURDAY, September 22, 1750.

Truditur dies die,

Noveque pergunt interire lune;
Tu fecanda marmora

Locas fub ipfum funus, et fepulchri
Immemor ftruis domos.

Day preffes on the heels of day,
And moons increafe to their decay;
But you, with thoughtless pride elate,
Unconscious of impending fate,
Command the pillar'd dome to rife,
When lo! thy tomb forgotten lies.

SIR,

To the RAMBLER.

HOR

FRANCIS

HAVE lately been called from a mingled life of bufinefs and amufement, to attend the laft hours of an old friend; an office which has filled me, if not with melancholy, at least with ferious reflections, and turned my thoughts towards the contemplation of thofe fubjects, which, though of the utmost importance, and of indubitable certainty, are generally fecluded from our regard, by the jollity of health, the hurry of employment, and even by the calmer diverfions of

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