An edition of Selected writings of Samuel Johnson
(1949)
The selected writings of Samuel Johnson
by Samuel Johnson
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The selected writings of Samuel Johnson
1981, New American Library
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Table of Contents
General Introduction
Page 1
Poems
Page 13
Prologue Spoken at the Opening of the Theater in Drury Lane, 1747
Page 15
The Vanity of Human Wishes
Page 17
A Short Song of Congratulation
Page 28
On the Death of Dr. Robert Levett
Page 29
Periodical Essays
Page 31
Selections from The Rambler
Page 33
No. 4 [Modern Fiction]
Page 33
No. 12 [Hardships of Domestic Service]
Page 38
No. 18 [Unhappiness in Marriage]
Page 43
No. 45 [Unhappiness in Marriage]
Page 52
No. 51 [A Compulsive Housewife]
Page 52
No. 59 [Suspirius, the Screech-Owl]
Page 57
No. 60 [Bibliography]
Page 60
No. 79 [Suspicion]
Page 65
No. 130 [History of a Beauty]
Page 68
No. 144 [Methods of Detraction]
Page 73
No. 148 [Parental Tyranny]
Page 76
No. 156 [Rules of Criticism]
Page 80
No. 168 [Appropriate Diction]
Page 84
No. 188 [Social Success]
Page 88
No. 200 [Prospero, the Nouveau-Riche]
Page 91
Selections from The Adventurer
Page 96
No. 84 [Journey in a Stagecoach]
Page 96
No. 128 [Smallness of Human Pursuits]
Page 100
Selections from The Idler
Page 106
No. 16 [Drugget, the Retired Tradesman]
Page 106
No. 17 [Experimentation on Animals]
Page 108
No. 18 [Folly of Human Amusements]
Page 111
No. 22 [Vultures and Men]
Page 113
No. 23 [Insecurity of Freindship]
Page 116
No. 26 [Betty Broom, the Maid]
Page 118
No. 31 [Sober, the Idler]
Page 121
No. 51 [No Man a Hero to His Valet]
Page 124
No. 60 [Minim, the Critic]
Page 126
No. 77 [Easy Writing]
Page 130
No. 88 [What Have Ye Done?]
Page 133
No. 97 [Travel Books]
Page 135
No. 100 [A Good Sort of Woman]
Page 138
No. 103 [Horror of the Last]
Page 141
From "A Review of A Free Enquiry into the Nature and Origin of Evil"
Page 144
The History of Rasselas, Prince of Abyssinia
Page 159
From the Edition of Shakespeare
Page 259
From the Preface
Page 261
Slection of Johnson's Notes to the Plays
Page 287
Measure for Measure
Page 287
The Merchant of Venice
Page 288
As You Like It
Page 289
Much Ado About Nothing
Page 289
King John
Page 289
Henry IV, Part 2
Page 290
Henry V
Page 292
King Lear
Page 293
Macbeth
Page 296
Cymbeline
Page 300
Hamlet
Page 300
Othello
Page 303
From Lives of the Poets
Page 307
John Milton
Page 309
Alexander Pope
Page 373
Thomas Gray
Page 464
Selected Bibliography
Page 469
Edition Notes
Bibliography: p. 469-470.
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