This is a volume of selected essays by "the great master of reason" Samuel Johnson. The most famous exerpts from The Rambler, The Adventurer and The Idler are included, covering a vast range of topics. - Summary by Carolin
Bibliographical Introduction, part 1Biographical Introduction, part 2The Necessity and Danger of Looking into Futurity. Writers Naturally Sanguine. Their Hopes Liable to DisappointmentAn Allegory on CriticismThe Modern Form of Romances Preferable to the Ancient. The Necessity of Characters Morally GoodThe Folly of Anger. The Misery of a Peevish Old AgeThe Difference Between an Author's Writings and his ConversationThe Dangers and Miseries of Literary EminenceThe Anxieties of Literature not Less than Those of Publick Stations. The Inequality of Authors' WritingsAn Allegory on Wit and LearningThe Contrariety of Criticism. The Vanity of Objection. An Author Obliged to Depend upon his own JudgmentThe Various Arts of Self-DelusionThe Difficulty of Giving Advice Without OffendingThe Proper Means of Regulating SorrowA Virtuous Old Age Always ReverencedThe Desire of Wealth Moderated by PhilosophyThe Dignity and Usefulness of BiographyInconstancy Always a WeaknessThe Requisites to True FriendshipThe Garden of Hope - A DreamEvery Man Chiefly Happy or Miserable at Home. The Opinions of Servants not to be DespisedThe Necessity of Good HumorThe Learned Seldom Despised but when they Deserve ContemptThe Reasons Why Advice is Generally IneffectualThe Luxury of Vain ImaginationThe Voyage of LifeLife Sufficient to All Purposes if well EmployedThe Advantages of Living in a GarretDiligence too Soon Relaxed. Necessity of PerseveranceThe Necessity of Literary CourageThe Criterions of PlagiarismThe Usefulness of Advice. The Danger of Habits. The Necessity of Reviewing LifeThe Revelations of a GarretLabour Necessary to ExcellenceDirections to Authors Attacked by Criticks. The Various Degrees of Critical PerspicacityMany Advantages not to be Enjoyed TogetherThe Prohibition of Revenge Justifiable by Reason. The Meanness of Regulating our Conduct by the Opinions of MenHuman Opinions Suitable. The Hopes of Youth FallaciousThe Importance of PunctualityThe Art of Living at the Cost of OthersThe Folly of Continuing too Long upon the StageThe Character of a LiarThe Faults of Books Sometimes Imputable to the ReaderTo Read, Write, and Conserve in Due Proportions the Business of a Man of LettersUnjust Charges of PlagiarismMercator Complains that he can Find no Happiness in Rural LifeThat kind of Life most Happy which Affords us most Opportunities of Gaining our own EsteemOur Present State one of Danger and InfelicityOn the Duty of Self-ExaminationThe Happiness and Vexation of AuthorsThe Idler's CharacterInvitation to CorrespondentsRobbery of TimeUncertainty of FriendshipCorruptions of News-WritersDisguises of Idleness. Sober's CharacterThe Terrifick DictionOn the Death of a FriendMonitions on the Flight of TimeDeborah Ginger's Account of City WitsMinim the Critick I.Minim the Critick II.Dick Shifter's Rural ExcursionSteady, Snug, Startle, Solid, and MistyBiography, How Best PerformedBooks Multiplied by Useless CompilationsWhat Have Ye Done?Omar's Plan of LifeThe Itch of Writing Universal
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