The Essays of Samuel Johnson: Selected from the Rambler, 1750-1752; The Adventurer, 1753; And the Idler, 1758-1760 (1899)


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The Encyclopedia Americana


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Samuel Johnson, 1709-1784


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Excerpt from Samuel Johnson, 1709-1784: A List of Books With References to Periodicals in the Brooklyn Public Library History of Rasselas, prince of Abyssinia. (in Hunt, Leigh, comp. Classic tales, v. 2. Lond. History of Rasselas, prince of Abyssinia. (in saint-pierre, J. H. B. De. Paul and Virginia. N. Y. N. D.) About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.




Essays from the Rambler, Adventurer, and Idler


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This selection of the cream of the writing from Volumes II-V of the Yale Edition of the Works of Samuel Johnson fills the largest remaining gap in easily available eighteenth-century texts for the student and general reader. The edition provides in popular form the amplest selection available of Johnson’s essays, ranging from his great moral pieces to the valuable essays on literary criticisms. The text is that of the authoritative Yale Edition and includes full annotation. An introduction by W.J. Bate provides a concise summary of the publication history of the essays and probes in detail the moral vision that pervades most of them. Mr. Bate is Lowell Professor of the Humanities at Harvard University and joint editor of Volumes II-V of the Yale Edition of the Works of Samuel Johnson.