[!--Note--] ([4]) Tatler, Number 94.
[!--Note--] ([5]) Guardian, Numbers 98. 114. 124. 140.
[!--Note--] ([6]) Chalmers' Preface to the Idler; British Essayists, vol. xxxiii.
[!--Note--] ([7]) Prayer on the Rambler.
[!--Note--] ([8]) See Boswell's Life of Dr. Johnson, vol. i. and Chalmers' Preface to Rambler.
[!--Note--] ([9]) Precepts of morality, besides the natural corruption of our tempers, are abstracted from ideas of sense.--Addison.
[!--Note--] ([10]) Rambler, Number 96.
[!--Note--] ([11]) This fact was communicated, on the authority of Mr. Payne, (the original publisher of the Rambler,) by Mr. Nichols to Mr. Chalmers.
See Dr. Drake's Literary Life of Dr. Johnson in his Essays on the Rambler, &c.
His Rambler, which is almost all essence of thought, unalloyed by those baser ingredients which so commonly add to the quantity without adding to the worth of human compositions, experienced at first a general coldness, discouragement, and even censure and ridicule. Censura Literaria, vol. viii. p. 361, first edition.