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 FIFTH.

LONDON:

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1816.

CONTENTS

OF

THE FIFTH VOLUME.

Continuation of the RAMBLER.

NUMB.

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

72. The necessity of good humour

73. The lingering expectation of an heir

74. Peevishness equally wretched and offensive.

The character of Tetrica

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75. The world never known but by a change of

fortune. The history of Melissa

76. The arts by which bad men are reconciled to

themselves

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77. The learned seldom despised but when they

deserve contempt

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6

12

78. The power of novelty. Mortality too familiar

to raise apprehensions

79. A suspicious man justly suspected

80. Variety necessary to happiness. A winter scene

81. The great rule of action. Debts of justice to

be distinguished from debts of charity

82. The virtuoso's account of his rarities

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24

31

36

42

48

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59

64

NUMB.

83. The virtuoso's curiosity justified

84. A young lady's impatience of controul

85. The mischiefs of total idleness

86. The danger of succeeding a great author:

An introduction to a criticism on Milton's

versification

90

87. The reasons why advice is generally ineffectual 97

88. A criticism on Milton's versification. Elisions

dangerous in English poetry

89. The luxury of vain imagination

90. The pauses in English poetry adjusted

91. The conduct of patronage, an allegory

92. The accommodation of sound to sense, often

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chimerical

93. The prejudices and caprices of criticism

94. An inquiry how far Milton has accommodated

the sound to the sense

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95. The history of Pertinax the sceptick

96. Truth, falsehood, and fiction, an allegory

97. Advice to unmarried ladies

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98. The necessity of cultivating politeness

99. The pleasures of private friendship. The

necessity of similar dispositions

100. Modish pleasures

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84

101. A proper audience necessary to a wit

102. The voyage of life

103. The prevalence of curiosity. The character

of Nugaculus

104. The original of flattery. The meanness of

venal praise

105. The universal register, a dream

106. The vanity of an author's expectations. Rea-

sons why good authors are sometimes neg-

lected

103

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143

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