THE

WORKS

O F

Samuel Johnson, LL.D.

IN ELEVEN VOLUMES.

VOL. V.

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MDCCLXXXVII.

CONTENTS

FIFTH

OF THE

VOLUM E.

Pago

NUMB.

THE RAMBLER.

1 Difficulty of the firft addrefs. Practice of the epick poets.

Convenience of periodical performances

2 The neceflity and danger of looking into futurity. Wri-

ters naturally fanguine. Their hopes liable to disap-

pointment

3 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

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7.

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20

27.

6 Happiness not local

33

7 Retirement natural to a great mind. Its religious ufe

8 The thoughts to be brought under regulation; as they

refpect the paft, prefent, and future

40

46

9 The fondnefs of every man for his profeffion. The gra-

dual improvement of manufactures

53

10 Four billets with their anfwers. Remarks on mafque-

rades

58

11 The folly of anger. The mifery of a peevifh old age

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

a fervice

13 The duty of fecrecy. The invalidity of all excufes for

betraying fecrets