THE

WORKS

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 FOURTH.

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1801.

OF THE

FOURTH VOLUME.

NUMB.

THE RAMBLER.

DIFFICULTY of the firft addrefs. Prac-
tice of the epick poets. Convenience of perio-
dical performances

2 The neceffity and danger of looking into futurity.
Writers naturally fanguine. Their hopes liable
to disappointment

31 An allegory on criticism

4 The modern form of romances preferable to the ancient. The neceffity 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 refpect the past, prefent, and future

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7

14

20

27

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46

9 The fondness of every man for his profeffion. The gradual improvement of manufactures 10 Four billets with their answers. Remarks on masquerades

VOL. IV.

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58 11 The

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NUMB.

11 The folly of anger. The mifery of a peevish old

age

12 The history of a young woman that came to
London for a fervice

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66

73

81

88

95

13 The duty of fecrecy. The invalidity of all ex-
cufes for betraying fecrets

14 The difference between an author's writings and
his conversation

15 The folly of cards. A Letter from a Lady that
has lost her money

16 The dangers and miferies of literary eminence -
171 The frequent contemplation of death neceffary to
moderate the paffions

18 The unhappiness of marriage caused by irregular
motives of choice -

19 The danger of ranging from one study to another.
The importance of the early choice of a pro-
felion

20 The folly and inconvenience of affectation
a The anxieties of literature not less than thofe of
publick fations. The inequality of authors
writings

22 An allegory on wit and learning

23The contrariety of criticifm. The vanity of ob-
jection. An author obliged to depend upon his
own judgment

24 The necessity of attending to the duties of common
life. The natural character not to be for-
faken

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144

150

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26 The

NUMB.

26 The mischief of extravagance, and mifery of dependence

27 An author's treatment from fix patrons

28 The various arts of felf-delufion

29 The folly of anticipating misfortunes

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168

175

181

30 The obfervance of Sunday recommended; an allegory

188

194

· 31 The defence of a known mistake highly culpable 199 321 The vanity of ftoicifm. The neceffity of patience 207 33 An allegorical history of reft and labour

34 The uneafiness and difguft of female cowardice 35 A marriage of prudence without affection

36 The reafons why paftorals delight

371 The true principles of pafloral poetry

213 219

226

38 The advantages of mediocrity. An Eastern fable 245 39 The unhappiness of women whether fingle or

40 The difficulty of giving advice without offending 257 -41 The advantages of memory

42 The mifery of a modish lady in folitude

43 The inconveniencies of precipitation and confidence 276 441 Religion and fuperftition, a vifion

45 The caufes of difagreement in marriage 46 The mifchiefs of rural faction

47 The proper means of regulating forrow 48 The miferies of an infirm conftitution 49 A difquifition upon the value of fame 50 A virtuous old age always reverenced 51 The employments of a housewife in the country -52 The contemplation of the calamities of others, a