The Works of Samuel Johnson, Volume 04 eBook

This eBook from the Gutenberg Project consists of approximately 530 pages of information about The Works of Samuel Johnson, Volume 04.

The Works of Samuel Johnson, Volume 04 eBook

This eBook from the Gutenberg Project consists of approximately 530 pages of information about The Works of Samuel Johnson, Volume 04.

THE ADVENTURER.

34.  Folly of extravagance.  The story of Misargyrus

39.  On sleep

41.  Sequel of the story of Misargyrus

45.  The difficulty of forming confederacies

50.  On lying

53.  Misargyrus’ account of his companions in the Fleet

58.  Presumption of modern criticism censured.  Ancient poetry necessarily
    obscure.  Examples from Horace

62.  Misargyrus’ account of his companions concluded

67.  On the trades of London

69.  Idle hope

74.  Apology for neglecting officious advice

81.  Incitement to enterprise and emulation.  Some account of the
    admirable Crichton

84.  Folly of false pretences to importance.  A journey in a stagecoach

85.  Study, composition, and converse equally necessary to intellectual
    accomplishment

92.  Criticism on the Pastorals of Virgil

95.  Apology for apparent plagiarism.  Sources of literary variety

99.  Projectors injudiciously censured and applauded

102.  Infelicities of retirement to men of business

107.  Different opinions equally plausible

108.  On the uncertainty of human things

111.  The pleasures and advantages of industry

115.  The itch of writing universal

119.  The folly of creating artificial wants

120.  The miseries of life

126.  Solitude not eligible

128.  Men differently employed unjustly censured by each other

131.  Singularities censured

137.  Writers not a useless generation

138.  Their happiness and infelicity

THE IDLER.

1.  The Idler’s character.

2.  Invitation to correspondents.

3.  Idler’s reason for writing.

4.  Charities and hospitals.

5.  Proposal for a female army.

6.  Lady’s performance on horseback.

7.  Scheme for news-writers.

8.  Plan of military discipline.

9.  Progress of idleness.

10.  Political credulity.

11.  Discourses on the weather.

12.  Marriages, why advertised.

13.  The imaginary housewife.

14.  Robbery of time.

15.  Treacle’s complaint of his wife.

16.  Drugget’s retirement.

17.  Expedients of idlers.

18.  Drugget vindicated.

19.  Whirler’s character.

20.  Capture of Louisbourg.

21.  Linger’s history of listlessness.

22.  Imprisonment of debtors.

23.  Uncertainty of friendship.

24.  Man does not always think.

25.  New actors on the stage.

26.  Betty Broom’s history.

27.  Power of habits.

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