Samuel Johnson: Works

• The Idler [introduction] -- overview
• "London" [introduction]
• "The Vanity of Human Wishes" [introduction] [text]
• The Rambler [introduction]
  • 172. The effect of sudden riches upon the manners [text]
  • 180. The study of life not to be neglected for the sake of books [text]
  • 182. The history of Leviculus, the fortune-hunter [text]
  • 183. Envy [text]
  • 184. The subject of essays often suggested by chance [text]
  • 196. Human opinions mutable. The hopes of youth fallacious. [text]
• Rasselas [introduction]
• The Adventurer
  • 50. On Lying. [text]
  • 84. Folly of false pretences to importance. A journey in a stage coach. [text]
  • 108. On the uncertainty of human things. [text]
• Lives of the Poets introduction
• Dictionary introduction — discussion

Incorporated in the Victorian Web July 2000