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VOL. III.

NO.

94. IDLENESS, however fortunate, incapable of Felicity.

Story of Ned Froth.
Hawkesworth.

95. Apology for apparent Plagiarism. Sources of lite-

rary Variety.
Johnson.

96. The necessity of reducing Imagination under the

Dominion of Reason exemplified.

Hawkesworth.

97. Observations on the Tempest concluded. Warton.

98. Account of Tim Wildgoose by himself.-ANON.

Project to prevent the Disappointment of modern

Ambition.
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99. Projectors injudiciously censured and applauded.

Johnson.

100. Gradation from a Greenhorn to a Blood: the Life of

Nomentanus.

101. Blemishes in the Paradise Lost.

Hawkesworth.

Warton.

Johnson.

102. Infelicities of Retirement to Men of Business.

103. Natural and adventitious Excellence less desirable

than Virtue. Almerine and Shelimah: a Fairy

Tale.

104. The Fairy Tale concluded.

Hawkesworth.

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NO.

105. On the Fragments of Menander.

Warton.

106. Insensibility of Danger, when mistaken for Cou-

rage.

Hawkesworth.

107. Different Opinions equally plausible. Johnson.

108. The Uncertainty of human Things.

Johnson.

109. A Visit to Bedlam with Dean Swift: a Vision.

ness.

Johnson.

112. Ill Effects of general Familiarity and wanton Rude-

Hawkesworth.

113. Observations on Shakspeare's King Lear. Warton.

114. The Value of Life fixed by Hope and Fear, and

therefore dependent upon the Will: an Eastern

Story.

115. The Itch of Writing universal.

Hawkesworth.

Johnson.

116. Observations on King Lear continued Warton.

117. Danger of assuming the Appearance of Evil. The

Story of Desdemona.

118. The Story of Desdemona concluded.

Hawkesworth.

Hawkesworth.

Johnson.

Johnson.

119. The Folly of creating inartificial Wants.

120. The Miseries of Life.

121. The Adventures of a Louse.

122. Observations on King Lear concluded.

123. Fatal Effects of fashionable Levities.

of Flavilla.

124. The Story continued.

Hawkesworth.

Warton.

The Story

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125. The Story concluded.

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126. Solitude not eligible.

Johnson.

127. In what Arts the Ancients excel the Moderns.

Warton.

128. Men differently employed unjustly censured by

each other.

Johnson.

132. Benevolence urged from the Misery of Solitude: an

Eastern Story.

Hawkesworth.

133. In what Arts the Moderns excel the Ancients.

Warton.

134. The Cruelty of deserting natural Children, and the

Danger of slight Breaches of Duty. Agamus's

Account of his Daughter.

Hawkesworth.

139. The Design of the critical Papers in the Adven-

turer.

Warton.

140. Account of the general Plan, and Conclusion of the

Work.

Hawkesworth.

THE

ADVENTURER.

No. 94. SATURDAY, SEPT. 29, 1753.

"You have somewhere discouraged the hope of idleness by showing, that whoever compares the number of those who have possessed fortuitous advantages, and of those who have been disappointed in their expectations, will have little reason to register himself in the lucky catalogue.

"But as we have seen thousands snbscribe to a raffle, of which one only could obtain the prize; so idleness will still presume to hope, if the advantages, however improbable, are admitted to lie within the bounds of possibility. Let the drone,

therefore, be told, that if by the error of fortune he obtains the stores of the bee, he cannot enjoy the felicity; that the honey which is not gathered by industry will be eaten without relish, if it is not wasted in riot; and that all who become possessed of the immediate object of their hope, without any

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