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The Project Gutenberg EBook of The Vanity of Human Wishes (1749) and Two Rambler papers (1750), by Samuel Johnson This eBook is for the use of anyone anywhere at no cost and with almost no restrictions whatsoever. You may copy it, give it away or re-use it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License included with this eBook or online at www.gutenberg.net Title: The Vanity of Human Wishes (1749) and Two Rambler papers (1750) Author: Samuel Johnson Release Date: September 2, 2004 [EBook #13350] Language: English Character set encoding: ASCII *** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK THE VANITY OF HUMAN WISHES *** Produced by David Starner, Charles Bidwell and PG Distributed Proofreaders The Augustan Reprint Society SAMUEL JOHNSON _The Vanity of Human Wishes_ (1749) and Two _Rambler_ papers (1750) With an Introduction by Bertrand H. Bronson Publication Number 22 (Series VI, No. 2) Los Angeles William Andrews Clark Memorial Library University of California 1950 _GENERAL EDITORS_ H. RICHARD ARCHER, _Clark Memorial Library_ RICHARD C. BOYS, _University of Michigan_ EDWARD NILES HOOKER, _University of California, Los Angeles_ H.T. SWEDENBERG, JR., _University of California, Los Angeles_ _ASSISTANT EDITORS_ W. EARL BRITTON, _University of Michigan_ JOHN LOFTIS, _University of California, Los Angeles_ _ADVISORY EDITORS_ EMMETT L. AVERY, _State College of Washington_ BENJAMIN BOYCE, _University of Nebraska_ LOUIS I. BREDVOLD, _University of Michigan_ CLEANTH BROOKS, _Yale University_ JAMES L. CLIFFORD, _Columbia University_ ARTHUR FRIEDMAN, _University of Chicago_ SAMUEL H. MONK, _University of Minnesota_ ERNEST MOSSNER, _University of Texas_ JAMES SUTHERLAND, _Queen Mary College, London_ INTRODUCTION The pieces reproduced in this little volume are now beginning to bid for notice from their third century of readers. At the time they were written, although Johnson had already done enough miscellaneous literary work to fill several substantial volumes, his name, far from identifying an "Age", was virtually unknown to the general public. _The Vanity of Human Wishes_ was the first of his writings to bear his name on its face. There were some who knew him to be the author of the vigorous satire, _London_, and of the still more remarkable biographical study, _An Account of the Life of Mr. Richard Savage_; and a few intereste
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