THE

R A M BLE R.

IN THREE VOLUMES,

VOL. I.

Nullius addictus jurare in verba magistri,
Quo me cunque rapit tempestas, deferor hospes.

THE SIXTEENTH EDITION.

LONDON:

Printed by Luke Hansard & Sons, near Lincoln's-Inn Fields,

For F. & C. Rivington; W. Otridge & Son; W. Lowndes; Wilkie & Robinson ;
J. Walker; Vernor, Hood, & Sharpe; Darton & Harvey; J. Nunn;
Lackington, Allen, & Co.; J. Cuthell; Longman, Hurst, Rees, & Orme;
Cadell & Davies; J. Carpenter; B. Crosby; S. Bagster; J. Mawman;
J. Faulder; and J. Johnson & Co.

CONTENTS

OF THE

FIRST VOLUM E.

NUMB.

1. DIFFICULTY of the first address. Practice of the

epick poets. Convenience of periodical per-

formances

2. The necessity and danger of looking into futurity.

Writers naturally sanguine. Their hopes liable

to disappointment

3. An allegory on criticism

4. The modern form of romances preferable to the

ancient. The necessity of characters morally

good

5. A meditation on the Spring

6. Happiness not local

7. Retirement natural to a great mind. Its religious

use

-

8. The thoughts to be brought under regulation; as

they respect the past, present, and future

-

9. The fondness of every man for his profession. The

gradual improvement of manufactures

10. Four billets, with their answers.

page

Remarks on

58

11 The