THE

WORKS

OP

SAMUEL JOHNSON, L. L. D.

A NEW EDITION,

IN SIX VOLUMES.

WITH

AN ESSAY ON HIS LIFE AND GENIUS,

BY ARTHUR MURPHY, ESQ.

VOL. III.

Philadelphia:

H. C. CAREY & I. LEA, TOWAR & HOGAN, R. H. SMALL, ROBT.
DESILVER, AND MAROT & WALTER ;

AND

COLLINS & HANNAY, COLLINS & co., W. B. GILLEY, WILDER & CAMPBELL,
J. V. SEAMAN, AND D. MALLORY, NEW-YORK.

William Brown, Printer.

1825.

Every man chiefly happy at home. The opinion of servants not to be

despised,

The miseries and prejudices of old age,

Different men virtuous in different degrees. The vicious not always

abandoned,

No man believes that his own life will be short,

The necessity of good humour,

The lingering expectation of an heir,

Peevishness equally wretched and offensive. The character of Te

trica,

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14

18

21

The world never known but by a change of fortune. The history of

Melissa,

The arts by which bad men are reconciled to themselves,

The learned seldom despised but when they deserve contempt,

The power of novelty. Mortality too familiar to raise apprehensions, 40

A suspicious man justly suspected,

Variety necessary to happiness. A winter scene,

The great rule of action. Debts of justice to be distinguished from

debts of charity,

The virtuoso's account of his rarities,

The virtuoso's curiosity justified,

A young lady's impatience of control,

The mischiefs of total idleness,

The danger of succeeding a great author: An introduction to a cri-
ticism on Milton's versification,

The reasons why advice is generally ineffectual,

A criticism on Milton's versification. Elisions dangerous in English
poetry,

The luxury of vain imagination,

The pauses in English poetry adjusted,

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The conduct of patronage, an allegory,

The accommodation of sound to sense, often chimerical,

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The prejudices and caprices of criticism,

99

An inquiry how far Milton has accommodated the sound to the sense, 102