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New-Street Square, London.

THE

WORK S

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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and Leigh,

1806.

MAR:941

71 NO man believes that his own life will be short

72 The neceffity of good-humour

73 The lingering expectation of an heir

74 Peevishness equally wretched and offenfive. The cha-

racter of Tetrica

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

The hiftory of Melissa

24

76 The arts by which bad men are reconciled to them-

felves

31

77 The learned feldom despised but when they deserve

contempt

36

78 The power of novelty. Mortality too familiar to raise

apprehenfions

79 A fufpicious man juftly suspected

80 Variety neceffary to happiness. A Winter fcene

81 The great rule of action. Debts of justice to be dif-

tinguished from debts of charity

82 The virtuofo's account of his rarities

83 The virtuofo's curiofity juftified

84 A young lady's impatience of controul

85 The mifchiefs of total idleness

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48

86 The

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86 The danger of fucceeding a great author: An intro-

duction to a criticism on Milton's verfification

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87 The reasons why advice is generally ineffectual

88 A criticism on Milton's verfification. Elifions danger-

ous in English poetry

89 The luxury of vain imagination

90 The paufes in English poetry adjusted

91 The conduct of patronage, an allegory

92 The accommodation of found to sense, often chime-

rical

93 The prejudices and caprices of criticism

94 An inquiry how far Milton has accommodated the found

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to the fenfe

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95 The hiftory of Pertinax the fceptick

152

96 Truth, falfehood, and fiction, an allegory

158

97 Advice to unmarried ladies

164

98 The neceffity of cultivating politeness

172

99 The pleasures of private friendship. The neceffity of

103 The prevalence of curiofity. The character of Nuga-

culus

104 The original of flattery. The meannefs of venal

praise

105 The univerfal regifter, a dream

106 The vanity of an author's expectations. Reasons why

good authors are fometimes neglected

107 Properantia's hopes of a year of confufion. The mi-

fery of prostitutes

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108 Life fufficient to all purposes if well employed

109 The education of a sop

110 Repentance ftated and explained. Retirement and

abstinence useful to repentance

111 Youth made unfortunate by its hafte and eagerness 253

112 Too much nicety not to be indulged. The character