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THE
RAMBLER;
A NEW EDITION,
CORRECTED FROM THE ORIGINALS,
WITH
A PREFACE,
HISTORICAL AND BIOGRAPHICAL,
BY ALEX CHALMERS, F.S.A.
VOL. II.
NEW-YORK,
PUBLISHED BY E. SARGEANT AND M. & W.WARD; AND MUNROE AND FRANCIS, AND
EDWARD COTTON, BOSTON.
1811.
CONTENTS.
VOLUME II.
No.
54.
A
DEATH-BED the true School of Wis-
dom-the Effects of Death upon the
Survivors
55. The gay Widow's Impatience of the
Growth of her Daughter-the History
of Miss May-pole
56. The Necessity of Complaisance-the Ram-
bler's Grief for offending his corres-
pondents
57. Sententious Rules of Frugality
58. The Desire of Wealth moderated by Phi-
losophy . .
59. An Account of Suspirius the human
Screech-owl
60. The Dignity and Usefulness of Biography
61. A Londoner's Visit to the Country
62. A young Lady's impatience to see London
63. Inconstancy not always a Weakness.
64. The Requisites to true Friendship,
60bidah and the Hermit, an Eastern Story
Passion not to be eradicated-the views of
Women ill directed
31%
The Garden of Hope, a Dream
Every man chiefly happy or miserable at A 2
JOHNSON.
Home-the Opinion of Servants not to
be despised ..
69. The Miseries and Prejudices of old Age
70. Different Men virtuous in different De-
grees the vicious not always abandoned
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 offen-
sive-the Character of Tetrica..
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
77. The Learned seldom despised but when
they deserve Contempt.
.....
78. The Power of Novelty-Mortality too fa-
miliar 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 Jus-
tice to be distinguished from Debts of
Charity . .
82. The Virtuoso's Account of his Rarities
83. The Virtuoso's Curiosity justified.
84. A young Lady's Impatience of Control
85. The Mischiefs of total Idleness
JOHNSON
86. The Danger of succeeding a great Author;
an Introduction to a Criticism on Mil-
ton's Versification.
87. The Reasons why Advice is generally inef- fectual
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 . .
9%. The Accommodation of Sound to Sense, often chimerical
93. The Prejudices and Caprices of Criticism
94. An Inquiry how far Milton has accommo-
dated the Sound to the sense
95. The History of Pertinax the Sceptick
96. Truth, Falsehood, and Fiction, an Allegory
97 Advice to unmarried Ladies. . MR. RICHARDSON.
98. The Necessity of cultivating Politeness
99. The Pleasures of private Friendship-
the Necessity of similar Dispositions .
100. Modish Pleasures
MRS. CARTER.
101. A proper Audience necessary to a Wit JOHNSON.
102. The Voyage of Life . .
103 The Prevalence of Curiosity—the Charac-
ter 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 -Reasons why good Authors are some- times neglected ・ ・