The Works of Samuel Johnson, LL.D.: The Rambler

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W. Pickering, 1825

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The necessity of proportioning punishments to crimes
114
The sequel of Hymenæuss courtship
115
The young traders attempt at politeness
116
The advantages of living in a garret
117
The narrowness of fame
118
Tranquillas account of her lovers opposed to Hymenæus
119
The history of Almamoulin the son of Nouradin
120
The dangers of imitation The impropriety of imitating Spenser
121
A criticism on the English historians
122
The young trader turned gentleman
123
The ladys misery in a summer retirement
124
The difficulty of defining comedy Tragick and comick sentiments confounded
125
The universality of cowardice The impropriety of extorting praise The impertinence of an astronomer
126
The miseries of a beauty defaced
130
Idleness an anxious and miserable state
134
The folly of annual retreats into the country
138
The meanness and mischief of indiscriminate dedication
143
The necessity of literary courage
147
Original characters to be found in the country The character of Mrs Busy
152
A critical examination of Samson Agonistes
157
The criticism continued
162
NUMB PAGE 165 The impotence of wealth The visit of Scrotinus to the place of
165
The danger of attempting wit in conversation The character of Papilius
172
An account of squire Bluster
173
The criterions of plagiarişm
178
The difficulty of raising reputation The various species of de tractors
184
Petty writers not to be despised
188
An account of an author travelling in quest of his own character The uncertainty of fame
192
The courtiers esteem of assurance
196
The cruelty of parental tyranny
201
NUMB PAGE 203 The pleasures of life to be sought in prospects of futurity Future
203
Benefits not always entitled to gratitude
206
Adversity useful to the acquisition of knowledge
211
The climactericks of the mind
215
Criticism on epistolary writings
220
The treatment incurred by loss of fortune
224
The inefficacy of genius without learning
229
The usefulness of advice The danger of habits The necessity of reviewing life
234
The laws of writing not always indisputable Reflections on tragi comedy
239
The scholars complaint of his own bashfulness
243
Rules of writing drawn from examples Those examples often mis taken
248
The nature and remedies of bashfulness
252
Poetry debased by mean expressions An example from Shake speare
291
169 Labour necessary to excellence
295
The history of Misella debauched by her relation
299
Misellas description of the life of a prostitute
304
The effect of sudden riches upon the manners
309
Unreasonable fears of pedantry
313
The mischiefs of unbounded raillery History of Dicaculus
317
The majority are wicked
322
Directions to authors attacked by criticks The various degrees of critical perspicacity
326
An account of a club of antiquaries
329
Many advantages not to be enjoyed together
333
The awkward merriment of a student
337
The study of life not to be neglected for the sake of books
341
The history of an adventurer in lotteries
345
The history of Leviculus the fortunehunter
350
The influence of envy and interest compared
354
The subject of essays often suggested by chance Chance equally prevalent in other affairs
358
The prohibition of revenge justifiable by reason The meanness of regulating our conduct by the opinions of men
362
Anningait and Ajut a Greenland history
367
The history of Anningait and Ajut concluded
371
Favour often gained with little assistance from understanding
375
The mischiefs of falsehood The character of Turpicula
379
The history of Abouzaid the son of Morad
383
The busy life of a young lady
387
Love unsuccessful without riches
392
The authors art of praising himself
396
A young noblemans progress in politeness
400
A young noblemans introduction to the knowledge of the town
405
Human opinions mutable The hopes of youth fallacious
409
The history of a legacyhunter
413
The legacyhunters history concluded
417
The virtues of Rabbi Abrahams magnet
422
Aspers complaint of the insolence of Prospero Unpoliteness not always the effect of pride
427
The importance of punctuality
432
The different acceptations of poverty Cynicks and Monks not poor
436
fame uncertain
440
The history of ten days of Seged emperour of Ethiopia
444
The history of Seged concluded
448
The art of living at the cost of others
452
The folly of continuing too long upon the stage
457
The Ramblers reception His design
461

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Страница 243 - It ought to be the first endeavour of a writer to distinguish nature from custom ; or that which is established because it is right, from that which is right only because it is established; that he may neither violate essential principles by a desire of novelty, nor debar himself from the attainment of beauties within his view, by a needless fear of breaking rules which no literary dictator had authority to enact.
Страница 143 - Who dares think one thing, and another tell, My heart detests him as the gates of hell.
Страница 25 - What better can we do, than, to the place Repairing where he judged us, prostrate fall Before him reverent, and there confess Humbly our faults, and pardon beg, with tears Watering the ground, and with our sighs the air Frequenting, sent from hearts contrite, in sign Of sorrow unfeign'd and humiliation meek?
Страница 293 - You wait on nature's mischief! Come, thick night, And pall thee in the dunnest smoke of hell, That my keen knife see not the wound it makes, Nor heaven peep through the blanket of the dark, To cry " Hold, hold !
Страница 251 - Their manners noted, and their states survey'd: On stormy seas unnumber'd toils he bore, Safe with his friends to gain his natal shore : Vain toils ! their impious folly dar'd to prey On herds devoted to the god of day : The god vindictive doom'd them never more (Ah ! men unblest) to touch that natal shore.
Страница 160 - But will arise and his great name assert : Dagon must stoop, and shall e're long receive Such a discomfit, as shall quite despoil him Of all these boasted Trophies won on me, And with confusion blank his Worshippers.
Страница 367 - N is to free our minds from the habit of comparing our condition with that of others on whom the blessings of life are more bountifully bestowed, or with imaginary states of delight and security, perhaps unattainable by mortals. Few are placed in a situation so gloomy and distressful, as not to see every day beings yet more forlorn and miserable, from whom they may learn to rejoice in their own lot.
Страница 165 - Fool ! have divulg'd the secret gift of God To a deceitful woman ? tell me, friends, Am I not sung and proverb'd for a fool In every street ? do they not say, how well Are come upon him his deserts...
Страница 182 - Why did I write? what sin to me unknown Dipp'd me in ink, my parents', or my own? As yet a child, nor yet a fool to fame, I lisp'd in numbers, for the numbers came. I left no calling for this idle trade, No duty broke, no father disobey'd...
Страница 167 - Let there be light, and light was over all; Why am I thus bereaved thy prime decree? The sun to me is dark And silent as the moon, When she deserts the night Hid in her vacant interlunar cave.

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