Selected Essays of Samuel Johnson

Episodes

• Bibliographical Introduction, part 1

  Episode 1 · 38:22
• Biographical Introduction, part 2

  Episode 2 · 35:50
• The Necessity and Danger of Looking into Futurity. Writers Naturally Sanguine. Their Hopes Liable to Disappointment

  Episode 3 · 16:23
• An Allegory on Criticism

  Episode 4 · 12:14
• The Modern Form of Romances Preferable to the Ancient. The Necessity of Characters Morally Good

  Episode 5 · 15:06
• The Folly of Anger. The Misery of a Peevish Old Age

  Episode 6 · 15:05
• The Difference Between an Author's Writings and his Conversation

  Episode 7 · 14:46
• The Dangers and Miseries of Literary Eminence

  Episode 8 · 14:00
• The Anxieties of Literature not Less than Those of Publick Stations. The Inequality of Authors' Writings

  Episode 9 · 13:27
• An Allegory on Wit and Learning

  Episode 10 · 12:25
• The Contrariety of Criticism. The Vanity of Objection. An Author Obliged to Depend upon his own Judgment

  Episode 11 · 9:36
• The Various Arts of Self-Delusion

  Episode 12 · 14:11
• The Difficulty of Giving Advice Without Offending

  Episode 13 · 12:25
• The Proper Means of Regulating Sorrow

  Episode 14 · 11:55
• A Virtuous Old Age Always Reverenced

  Episode 15 · 10:10
• The Desire of Wealth Moderated by Philosophy

  Episode 16 · 9:28
• The Dignity and Usefulness of Biography

  Episode 17 · 12:49
• Inconstancy Always a Weakness

  Episode 18 · 11:49
• The Requisites to True Friendship

  Episode 19 · 11:48
• The Garden of Hope - A Dream

  Episode 20 · 8:50
• Every Man Chiefly Happy or Miserable at Home. The Opinions of Servants not to be Despised

  Episode 21 · 9:37
• The Necessity of Good Humor

  Episode 22 · 10:56
• The Learned Seldom Despised but when they Deserve Contempt

  Episode 23 · 13:05
• The Reasons Why Advice is Generally Ineffectual

  Episode 24 · 11:35
• The Luxury of Vain Imagination

  Episode 25 · 11:21
• The Voyage of Life

  Episode 26 · 12:00
• Life Sufficient to All Purposes if well Employed

  Episode 27 · 12:05
• The Advantages of Living in a Garret

  Episode 28 · 16:24
• Diligence too Soon Relaxed. Necessity of Perseverance

  Episode 29 · 11:50
• The Necessity of Literary Courage

  Episode 30 · 11:46
• The Criterions of Plagiarism

  Episode 31 · 16:01
• The Usefulness of Advice. The Danger of Habits. The Necessity of Reviewing Life

  Episode 32 · 13:28
• The Revelations of a Garret

  Episode 33 · 10:18
• Labour Necessary to Excellence

  Episode 34 · 10:11
• Directions to Authors Attacked by Criticks. The Various Degrees of Critical Perspicacity

  Episode 35 · 8:27
• Many Advantages not to be Enjoyed Together

  Episode 36 · 9:33
• The Prohibition of Revenge Justifiable by Reason. The Meanness of Regulating our Conduct by the Opinions of Men

  Episode 37 · 12:48
• Human Opinions Suitable. The Hopes of Youth Fallacious

  Episode 38 · 8:24
• The Importance of Punctuality

  Episode 39 · 10:33
• The Art of Living at the Cost of Others

  Episode 40 · 9:24
• The Folly of Continuing too Long upon the Stage

  Episode 41 · 10:11
• The Character of a Liar

  Episode 42 · 11:14
• The Faults of Books Sometimes Imputable to the Reader

  Episode 43 · 13:19
• To Read, Write, and Conserve in Due Proportions the Business of a Man of Letters

  Episode 44 · 15:14
• Unjust Charges of Plagiarism

  Episode 45 · 11:43
• Mercator Complains that he can Find no Happiness in Rural Life

  Episode 46 · 12:01
• That kind of Life most Happy which Affords us most Opportunities of Gaining our own Esteem

  Episode 47 · 13:41
• Our Present State one of Danger and Infelicity

  Episode 48 · 10:59
• On the Duty of Self-Examination

  Episode 49 · 13:27
• The Happiness and Vexation of Authors

  Episode 50 · 10:12
• The Idler's Character

  Episode 51 · 8:56
• Invitation to Correspondents

  Episode 52 · 7:01
• Robbery of Time

  Episode 53 · 6:10
• Uncertainty of Friendship

  Episode 54 · 7:12
• Corruptions of News-Writers

  Episode 55 · 7:25
• Disguises of Idleness. Sober's Character

  Episode 56 · 8:32
• The Terrifick Diction

  Episode 57 · 10:01
• On the Death of a Friend

  Episode 58 · 8:33
• Monitions on the Flight of Time

  Episode 59 · 5:56
• Deborah Ginger's Account of City Wits

  Episode 60 · 7:37
• Minim the Critick I.

  Episode 61 · 9:37
• Minim the Critick II.

  Episode 62 · 6:56
• Dick Shifter's Rural Excursion

  Episode 63 · 8:57
• Steady, Snug, Startle, Solid, and Misty

  Episode 64 · 8:10
• Biography, How Best Performed

  Episode 65 · 6:45
• Books Multiplied by Useless Compilations

  Episode 66 · 5:30
• What Have Ye Done?

  Episode 67 · 5:24
• Omar's Plan of Life

  Episode 68 · 7:18
• The Itch of Writing Universal

  Episode 69 · 13:13