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Selected Essays of Samuel Johnson

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01 - Bibliographical Introduction, part 1

Tác giả: Samuel Johnson; Stuart Johnson Reid

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01 - Bibliographical Introduction, part 1
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02 - Biographical Introduction, part 2
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03 - The Necessity and Danger of Looking into Futurity. Writers Naturally Sanguine. Their Hopes Liable to Disappointment
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04 - An Allegory on Criticism
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05 - The Modern Form of Romances Preferable to the Ancient. The Necessity of Characters Morally Good
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06 - The Folly of Anger. The Misery of a Peevish Old Age
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07 - The Difference Between an Author's Writings and his Conversation
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08 - The Dangers and Miseries of Literary Eminence
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09 - The Anxieties of Literature not Less than Those of Publick Stations. The Inequality of Authors' Writings
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10 - An Allegory on Wit and Learning
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11 - The Contrariety of Criticism. The Vanity of Objection. An Author Obliged to Depend upon his own Judgment
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12 - The Various Arts of Self-Delusion
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13 - The Difficulty of Giving Advice Without Offending
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14 - The Proper Means of Regulating Sorrow
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15 - A Virtuous Old Age Always Reverenced
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16 - The Desire of Wealth Moderated by Philosophy
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17 - The Dignity and Usefulness of Biography
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18 - Inconstancy Always a Weakness
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19 - The Requisites to True Friendship
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20 - The Garden of Hope - A Dream
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21 - Every Man Chiefly Happy or Miserable at Home. The Opinions of Servants not to be Despised
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22 - The Necessity of Good Humor
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23 - The Learned Seldom Despised but when they Deserve Contempt
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24 - The Reasons Why Advice is Generally Ineffectual
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25 - The Luxury of Vain Imagination
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26 - The Voyage of Life
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27 - Life Sufficient to All Purposes if well Employed
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28 - The Advantages of Living in a Garret
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29 - Diligence too Soon Relaxed. Necessity of Perseverance
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30 - The Necessity of Literary Courage
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31 - The Criterions of Plagiarism
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32 - The Usefulness of Advice. The Danger of Habits. The Necessity of Reviewing Life
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33 - The Revelations of a Garret
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34 - Labour Necessary to Excellence
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35 - Directions to Authors Attacked by Criticks. The Various Degrees of Critical Perspicacity
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36 - Many Advantages not to be Enjoyed Together
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37 - The Prohibition of Revenge Justifiable by Reason. The Meanness of Regulating our Conduct by the Opinions of Men
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38 - Human Opinions Suitable. The Hopes of Youth Fallacious
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39 - The Importance of Punctuality
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40 - The Art of Living at the Cost of Others
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41 - The Folly of Continuing too Long upon the Stage
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42 - The Character of a Liar
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43 - The Faults of Books Sometimes Imputable to the Reader
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44 - To Read, Write, and Conserve in Due Proportions the Business of a Man of Letters
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45 - Unjust Charges of Plagiarism
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46 - Mercator Complains that he can Find no Happiness in Rural Life
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47 - That kind of Life most Happy which Affords us most Opportunities of Gaining our own Esteem
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48 - Our Present State one of Danger and Infelicity
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49 - On the Duty of Self-Examination
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50 - The Happiness and Vexation of Authors
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51 - The Idler's Character
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52 - Invitation to Correspondents
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53 - Robbery of Time
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54 - Uncertainty of Friendship
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55 - Corruptions of News-Writers
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56 - Disguises of Idleness. Sober's Character
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57 - The Terrifick Diction
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58 - On the Death of a Friend
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59 - Monitions on the Flight of Time
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60 - Deborah Ginger's Account of City Wits
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61 - Minim the Critick I.
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62 - Minim the Critick II.
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63 - Dick Shifter's Rural Excursion
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64 - Steady, Snug, Startle, Solid, and Misty
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65 - Biography, How Best Performed
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66 - Books Multiplied by Useless Compilations
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67 - What Have Ye Done?
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68 - Omar's Plan of Life
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69 - The Itch of Writing Universal