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. LONDON: Printed by Luke Hansard & Sons, near Lincoln's-Inn Fields, For J. Nichols & Son; F. & C. Rivington; Otridge & Son; A. Strahan; Leigh & CONTENTS 1. DIFFICULTY of the first address. Practice of the epick poets. Convenience of periodical per- 2. The necessity and danger of looking into futurity. Writers naturally sanguine. Their hopes liable 4. The modern form of romances preferable to the 11 The |