No. 41. Sequel of the story of Misargyrus
I shall proceed, therefore, to finish my career, and pass as rapidly as possible through the remaining vicissitudes of my life.
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No. 39. On Sleep
Why does so liberal and impartial a benefactor as sleep, meet with so few historians or panegyrists?
No. 34. Folly of extravagance. The story of Misargyrus.
Has toties optata exegit gloria pænas. Juv. Sat. x. 187. Such fate pursues the votaries of praise. TO THE ADVENTURER. SIR, …
A quick note on timelines
With the end of Johnson’s Rambler essays, we’re now skipping ahead one year to 1753, when he started writing in …
No. 208. The Rambler’s reception. His design.
Time, which puts an end to all human pleasures and sorrows, has likewise concluded the labours of the Rambler.
No. 207. The folly of continuing too long upon the stage
Few moments are more pleasing than those in which the mind is concerting measures for a new undertaking.
No. 206. The art of living at the cost of others.
Nothing produces more singularity of manners and inconstancy of life, than the conflict of opposite vices in the same mind.
No. 205. The history of Seged concluded.
On the fourth morning Seged rose early, refreshed with sleep, vigorous with health, and eager with expectation.
No. 204. The history of ten days of Seged, emperour of Ethiopia.
Seged, lord of Ethiopia, to the inhabitants of the world: To the sons of Presumption, humility and fear; and to the daughters of Sorrow.
No. 203. The pleasures of life to be sought in prospects of futurity. Future fame uncertain.
Cum volet illa dies, quae nil nisi corporis hujus Jus habet, incerti spatium mihi finiat avi. OVID. Met. xv. 873. …