Johnson surveys mankind from China to Peru and finds every ambition undone: Wolsey’s power, Charles XII’s conquests, the scholar’s fame, the miser’s gold and the beauty’s charms. This Augustan Reprint Society facsimile prints the 1749 poem with the Latin of Juvenal’s tenth satire it imitates, and two Rambler papers of 1750, introduced by Bertrand H. Bronson.
The finest moral poem of the eighteenth century, by the man who wrote the Dictionary. Download the free EPUB.