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HARVARD COLLEGE LIBRARY GIFT OF
DR. JOHN RATHBONE OLIVER, AC AUGUST 4, 1941
No.
INTRODUCTION
CONTENTS.
THE RAMBLER.
1. Difficulty of the First Address. Practice of the
Epic Poets. Convenience of Periodical Perfor-
mances.
The Necessity and Danger of Looking into
Futurity. Writers Naturally Sanguine. Their
Hopes Liable to Disappointment
7. Retirement Natural to a Great Mind. Its Re-
ligious Use
The Fondness of Every Man for His Profession.
The Gradual Improvement of Manufactures
20. The Folly and Inconvenience of Affectation.
1-24. The Necessity of Attending to the Duties of Com-
mon Life. The Natural Character not to be
Forsaken
58. The Desire of Wealth Moderated by Philosophy
59. An Account of Suspirius, the Human Screech-
Owl
60. The Dignity and Usefulness of Biography
103
38
46
89
68. Every Man Chiefly Happy or Miserable at Home.
The Opinion of Servants not to be Despised
69. The Miseries and Prejudice of Old Age
71. No Man Believes that his Own Life will be Short
72. The Necessity of Good Humour
77. The Learned Seldom Despised but when they
Deserve Contempt
78. The Power of Novelty. Mortality too Familiar
to Raise Apprehensions
79. A Suspicious Man Justly Suspected
85. The Mischiefs of Total Idleness
86. The Danger of Succeeding a Great Author: An
Introduction to a Criticism on Milton's Versifi-
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130
136
143
150
156
88. A Criticism on Milton's Versification. Elisions
Dangerous in English Poetry
173
90. The Pauses in English Poetry Adjusted 93. The Prejudices and Caprices of Criticism
102. The Voyage of Life
110. Repentance Stated and Explained. Retirement
and Abstinence Useful to Repentance
179
187
194
201
114. The Necessity of Proportioning Punishments to
Crimes
208
121. The Dangers of Imitation. The Impropriety of
Imitating Spenser
217
137. The Necessity of Literary Courage
226
146. An Account of an Author Travelling in Quest of
His Own Character. The Uncertainty of
Fame.