The Works of Samuel Johnson, LL.D.: With Murphy's Essay, Volume 1

Samuel Johnson

Cowie, 1825

Contents

• N Page: viii
• DIFFICULTY of the first address Practice of the epick poets: 1
• Retirement natural to a great mind Its religious: 7
• The folly and inconvenience of affectation: 20
• The anxieties of literature not less than those of publick sta tions The inequality of authors writings: 21
• An allegory on wit and learning: 22
• Four billets with their answers Remarks on masquerades: 43
• Sententious rules of frugality: 57
• The duty of secrecy The invalidity of all excuses for: 60
• Inconstancy not always a weakness: 63
• The prejudices and caprices of criticism: 93
• authour obliged to depend upon his own judgment: 111
• Rashness preferable to cowardice Enterprize not to: 115
• The mischief of extravagance and misery of dependance: 124
• An authours treatment from six patrons 28 The various arts of selfdelusion 29 The folly of anticipating misfortunes: 129
• The observance of Sunday recommended an allegory: 143
• The defence of a known mistake highly culpable 32 The vanity of stoicism The necessity of patience 33 An allegorical history of rest and labour 34...: 152
• The inconveniencies of precipitation and confidence: 204
• Religion and superstition a vision 45 The causes of disagreement in marriage 46 The mischiefs of rural faction: 209
• grief: 223
• A deathbed the true school of wisdom The effects of death upon the survivors: 254
• The gay widows impatience of the growth of her daughter The history of Miss Maypole: 259
• The necessity of complaisance The Ramblers grief for of fending his correspondents: 264
• Obidah and the hermit an eastern story: 305
• Different men virtuous in different degrees The vicious: 326
• The necessity of good humour: 334
• Peevishness equally wretched and offensive The character: 343
• The arts by which bad men are reconciled to themselves: 352
• the passions: 358
• A suspicious man justly suspected: 361
• Variety necessary to happiness A winter scene: 370
• The unhappiness of marriage caused by irregular motives: 377
• The virtuosos account of his rarities: 378
• A young ladys impatience of controul: 388
• The pauses in English poetry adjusted: 398
• The danger of ranging from one study to another The: 421
• The pleasures of private friendship The necessity of similar: 462
• A proper audience necessary to a: 471
• The voyage of life: 478
• The original of flattery The meanness of venal praise: 486
• The vanity of an authours expectations Reasons why good: 495
• Life sufficient to all purposes if well employed: 504
• nence useful to repentance: 517
• phile: 523
• The necessity of proportioning punishments to crimes: 532
• The young traders attempt at politeness: 543
• The narrowness of fame: 554
• The history of Almamoulin the son of Nouradin: 563

Bibliographic information

• Title: The Works of Samuel Johnson, LL.D.: With Murphy's Essay, Volume 1; The Works of Samuel Johnson, LL.D.: With Murphy's Essay, Samuel Johnson
• Author: Samuel Johnson
• Editor: Robert Lynam
• Contributor: Arthur Murphy
• Publisher: Cowie, 1825
• Original from: Library of Catalonia
• Digitized: Mar 30, 2009