[Footnote 16: Boswell, vol. i. iii. and iv.] [Footnote 17: Student, vol. ii. number entitled Clio. 1750. Gentleman's Magazine of the day. Mrs. Barbauld's Correspondence of Richardson. Dr. Young was among the first and warmest admirers of the Rambler. See Boswell, vol. i.] [Footnote 18: We allude to the infamous Rambler's Magazine, which, little to the credit of the morality of the times, has lately been allowed to spread anew its pestilential influence.] [Footnote 19: Works, 8vo. vol. iv. p. 259. See also the Edinburgh Review for July, 1803.] [Footnote 20: Boswell's Life, vol. iii. and Chalmers on Rambler. Essayists, vol. xix. See also Idler, No. 1. at the commencement.] [Footnote 21: In a letter to Mr. Thomas Warton, speaking of the death of Dodsley's wife, and in allusion to the loss of his own, he concludes with a quotation where pathos and resignation are blended, Οιμοι· τι δ' οιμοι; Θνητα γαρ πεπονθαμεν. BOSWELL, vol. i.] [Footnote 22: Chalmers, as above, and Dr. Drake.] [Footnote 23: Mr. Chalmers gives No. 180. of the Rambler, and Dr. Drake some paragraphs from No. 185.] [Footnote 24: This opinion is maintained in the Rambler, No. 129. and in Boswell's Life, vol. iii.] [Footnote 25: Sidney.] [Footnote 26: See her Anecdotes and Rambler, 188. note.] [Footnote 27: Stanzas on the death of Mr. Levet.] [Footnote 28: See his many letters on the subject to Mr. Boswell, who had the misfortune to be hypochondriacal. See also Rambler, 186. Introduction.] [Footnote 29: Rousseau's utter sensuality is ever a theme for Mary Woolstonecraft's declamation in her Rights of Woman.--_Fas est et ab hoste doceri._] [Footnote 30: Salvator Rosa has made Democritus among the tombs the subject of one of his solemn and heart-striking pictures. For an eloquent description of it, see Lady Morgan's Life and Times of _Il famoso pittore di cose morale_, vol. ii.] [Footnote 31: Rambler, No. 77.] [Footnote 32: _Ita feri ut se sentiat emori._] CONTENTS OF THE FIRST VOLUME. NUMB. PAGE