straw in Bedlam, ii. 374, n. 2;
'strolling tribe,' i. 168, n. 1;
Warburton, Bishop, iv. 49, n. 1; v. 81, n. 2;
Whitehead, Paul, i. 125;
'With wits a fool, with fools a wit,' i. 266, n. 1.
CHURTON, Rev. Ralph, ii. 258, n. 3; iv. 212, n. 4, 300, n. 2.
CIBBER, Colley,
_Apology_, ii. 92; iii. 72;
Goldsmith praises it, ib., n. 2;
_Birth-day Odes_, i. 149, n. 3, 401-2; ii. 92; iii. 72, 184;
_Careless Husband_, revised by Mrs. Brett, i. 174, n. 2;
origin of the story, ib.;
no doubt written by Cibber, ii. 340;
praised by Pope and H. Walpole, iii. 72, n. 4;
Comedies, merit in his, ii. 340; iii. 72;
Chesterfield, and Johnson, anecdote about, i. 256;
conversation, his, ii. 92, 340; iii. 72;
Dryden, recollections of, iii. 71;
Fenton, insulted, i. 102, n. 2;
genteel ladies, his, ii. 340;
_Hob or The Country Wake_, ii. 465, n. 1;
ignorance, iii. 72, n. 1; iv. 243;
impudence, i. 154, n. 2; ii. 340, n. 3;
Johnson's epigram on him, i. 149; v. 348, 350, 404;
shows one of his _Odes_ to, ii. 92;
mode of arguing: see JOHNSON, arguing;
manager of Drury Lane, v. 244, n. 2;
_Musa Cibberi_, iv. 3, n. 1;
_Non-juror, The, _ii. 321;
poet-laureate, i. 401, n. 1;
_Provoked Husband_, ii. 48; iv. 284, n. 2;
Richard III, version of, iii. 73, n. 3;
Richardson's respect for him, ii. 93; iii. 184;
vanity, iii. 264;
Walpole praises his character, i. 401, n. 1;
his _Apology_, iii. 72, n. 4;
and his acting, iv. 243, n. 6;
Whig, violent, iii. 30, n. 1.
CIBBER, Theophilus,
edits the _Lives of the Poets,_ i. 187; iii. 29-31, 117;
death, iii. 30, n. 1.
CIBBER, Mrs. (wife of Theophilus), account of her, v. 126, n. 5;
acted in Irene, i. 197;
mentioned, ii. 92.
CICERO, Burke not like him, v. 213-4;
Chesterfield likened to him, iii. 351;
image of Virtue, ii. 15, n. 2, 443;
quotations from _Cato Major_, iii. 438, n. 2; iv. 374, n. 2;
_Ep. ad Att._, iv. 379, n. 2;
_Ep. ad Fam_., iv. 424, n. 1;
_Tuscul. Quaest_., ii. 107, n. 1.
CIRCULATING LIBRARIES, i. 102, n. 2; ii. 36, n. 1.
CITY, a, its solitude, iii. 379, n. 2.
CITY OF LICHFIELD, a county, i. 36, n. 4.
CITY OF LONDON. See LONDON.
CITY-POET, iii. 75.
CIVIL LAW, i. 134.
CIVILISED LIFE. See SAVAGES, and SOCIETY.
_Civility_, ii. 155; iii. 77.
_Civilisation_, ii. 155.
CLANRANALD, ii. 309; Allan of Clanranald, v. 290.
CLAPP, Mrs., ii. 63, 115-6.
CLARE, Lord, friendship with Goldsmith, ii. 136; iii. 311.
CLARENDON, first Earl of,
_History of the Rebellion_, its authenticity, i. 294, n. 9;
characters trustworthy, ii. 79;
character of Falkland, iv. 428, n. 2;
compared with Hume and Robertson, v. 57, n. 3;
recommended by Johnson, iv. 311;
style and matter, iii. 257-8;
Villiers's ghost, iii. 351;
University of Oxford and his heirs, ii. 424.
CLARENDON PRESS, Johnson's letter on its management, ii. 424, 441.
CLARET, for boys, in. 381; iv. 79;
gives the dropsy before drunkenness, v. 248-9.
_Clarissa. See_ RICHARDSON, S.
CLARK, Alderman Richard, member of the Essex Head Club, iv. 258, 438;
Johnson, letter from, iv. 258.
CLARKE, Rev. Dr. Samuel, Christian evidences, i. 398;
free-will, ii. 104;
_Homer_, edition of, ii. 129;
Johnson's _Dictionary_, not quoted in, i. 189, n. 1; iv. 416, n. 2;
Leibnitz, controversy with, v. 287;
learning, iv. 21;
studied hard, i. 71;
literary character, i. 3, _n. _2;
orthodox, not, iii. 248; v. 288;
Queen Caroline wished to make him a bishop, iii. 248, n. 2;
_Sermons_, ii. 263, 476; iii. 248;
recommended by Johnson on his death-bed, iv. 416;
unbending himself, fond of, i. 3.
CLARKE, Sir T., i. 45, n. 4.
CLAUDIAN, ii. 315.
CLAVIUS, ii. 444.
CLAXTON, Mr., ii. 247.
CLEMENT, William, Fellow of Trinity College, Dublin, i. 489.
CLENARDUS, iv. 20.
_Cleone. See _DODSLEY.
_Cleonice_, ii. 289,_ n._ 3.
CLERGYMAN, a,
at Bath, iv. 149;
Johnson's letter to him, iv. 150;
extraordinary character, an, iv. 296, n. 3;
hopeless ignorance of one, iv. 33, n. 3;
one rebuked by Johnson, iv. 19;
a young clergyman, Johnson's letter to, iii. 436.
CLERGYMEN, can be but half a beau, iv. 76;
_Court_-party, of the, v. 255, n. 5;
decorum required in them, iv. 76;
duties, i. 320;
elocution, taught, iv. 206;
English compared with Scotch, v. 251-3, 381;
Harrogate, at, v. 252, _n. 3_;
holy artifices, iii. 438;
learning, iv. 13;
library fit for one, v. 121;
life, their, i. 320, 476; iii. 304;
men of the world, aping, iv. 76;
popular election, ii. 149;
preaching: _see _PREACHING;
sinners in general, ii. 172.
CLERK, Sir Philip Jennings, account of him, iv. 80;
argument with Johnson, iv. 81.
CLERMONT, Lady, iii. 425.
CLIENTS. See LAW.
CLIMATE, happiness not affected by it, ii. 195.
CLINABS, i. 502, 512.
CLINTON, Sir Henry, iv. 140, n. 2.
CLITHEROE, iv. 162.
CLIVE, Lord,
astonished at his own moderation, iii. 401, n. 1;
character by Dr. Robertson, iii. 334, 350;
his chest full of gold, iii. 401;
destroyed himself, iii. 334, 350.
CLIVE, Mrs.,
Johnson describes her acting, iv. 243; v. 126;
and Walpole, H., iv. 243, n. 6;
robbed by highwaymen, iii. 239, n. 1;
'understands what you say,' iv. 7.
CLOTHES._ See_ DRESS.
CLOUGH, Arthur, v. 149, n. 1.
CLOUGH, Sir Richard, v. 436.
CLOW, Professor, v. 369, n. 2.
_Clubable_, iv. 254, n. 2.
CLUBS: Almack's, iii. 23, n. 1;
Arthur's, v. 84, n. 1;
Boar's Head, v. 247;
British Coffee-house, ii. 195; iv. 179, n. 1;
Brookes's, ii. 292,_ n._ 4; iv. 279, n. 2, 358, n. 1;
_City Club_ at the Queen's Arms, iv. 87;
Cocoa-tree Club, v. 386, n. 1;
Essex Head, account of its foundation and members, iv. 253-5,436-8;
Boswell and Johnson at a meeting, iv. 275;
Johnson attacked with illness there, iv. 259;
mentioned, iv. 354, 359, 360;
Eumelian, iv. 394;
Gaming Club, iii. 23;
Ivy Lane, account of it, i. 190, 191, n. 5, 478, n. 2;
Lennox, Mrs., supper in honour of, i. 103, n. 3, 255, n. 1;
old members meet in 1783, iv. 253, 435-6;
Johnson's definition of a club, iv. 254, n. 5;
Literary Club, account of it, i. 477-81; v. 109;
attendance expected, ii. 273;
attendances in 1766, ii. 17, 201;
Althorpe, Lord, iii. 424;
Banks, Sir Joseph, iii. 365;
Beauclerk, described by, ii. 192, n. 2;
loss by his death, iii. 424;
black-ball, exclusion by a single, iii. 116;
books, some of the members talk from, v. 378,_ n._4;
Boswell's election: See BOSWELL, Literary Club;
Boswell's account of meetings at which he was present,
his introduction, ii. 240;
Johnson's apology to Goldsmith, ii. 255;
talk of second-sight and Swift, ii. 318;
Mrs. Abington's benefit, ii. 330;
_Travels, Ossian_, the Black Bear, and patriotism, ii. 345;
speakers distinguished by initials, iii. 230;
Johnson's last dinner, iv. 326;
Boswell's reports of meetings generally brief, ii. 242, n. 1,
345, n. 5;
Burke's company lost to it, ii. 16;
Bunbury elected, ii. 274;
Camden Lord, black-balled, iii. 311, n. 2;
day and hour of meeting, i. 478, 479; ii. 20, n. 1, 330, n. 1;
iii. 128, 365, 368;
described in 1774 by Beauclerk, ii. 274, n. 3;
Dodd sought admittance, iii. 280;
Dunning, John, elected, iii. 128;
first meeting of the winter, iii. 210;
Fordyce elected, ii. 274;
foundation, and list of members, i. 477-9, 481, n 3;
Fox elected, ii. 274;
talked little, iii. 267;
Garrick elected, i. 480;
his vanity, iii. 311, n. 3;
Gibbon elected, i. 481, n. 3;
describes it, ii. 348, n. 1;
poisons it to Boswell, ii. 443, n. 1;
Goldsmith recites some absurd verses, ii. 240; iv. 13;
he wishes for more members, iv. 183;
his epitaph to be shown to the Club, iii. 81;
hanged or kicked, members deserving to be, iii. 281;
hogshead of claret nearly out, iii. 238;
imaginary college at St. Andrews, v. 108-9;
increase of members proposed, iii. 106;
Johnson's attendance in his latter years, iii. 106, n. 4;
attends after his attack of palsy, iv. 232-3;
his last dinner, iv. 326,
(for attendances with Boswell, See just above, under BOSWELL);
dislikes several members, iii. 106;
his friends of the Club, iv. 85;
his funeral, iv. 419;
subscriptions for his monument, iv. 423, ns. 1 and 3;
incompliance with a _Call_, iv. 84;
mentions the Club in a letter, ii. 136;
reads his epitaph on Lady Elibank, iv. 10;
talks of Mrs. Lennox's play, iv. 10;
Jones, Sir W., described by, v. 109, n. 5;
motto, its, i. 478, n. 3;
name, i. 477; v. 109, n. 5;
number of members, i. 478, n. 2, 479; iii. 106;
Palmerston, second Lord, black-balled, iv. 232;
elected, _ib. n._ 2;
Porteus, Bishop of Chester, black-balled, iii. 311, n. 2;
select merit, loses its, ii. 430, n. l;
Sheridan, R.B., elected, iii. 316;
Shipley, Bishop of St. Asaph, elected, iv. 75, n. 3;
Smith, Adam, elected, ii. 430, n. 1;
Steevens elected, ii. 273-4;
Vesey elected, iv. 28;
Vesey's (Mrs.) evening parties on Club nights, iii. 424, n. 3;
iv. 108, n. 4;
Nonsense Club, i. 395, n. 2;
Old Street Club, iii. 443-4; iv. 187;
Poker Club, ii. 376, n. 1; 431, n. 1;
Tall Club, i. 308, n. 6;
White's, ii. 329, n. 3;
World, The, iv. 102, n. 4.
COACH, post-coach, iii. 129; iv. 283;
heavy coach, iv. 285.
COAL-HEAVERS, riots of, iii. 46, n. 5.
COALITION MINISTRY (Duke of Portland's) formed, iv. 174, n. 3;
dismissed, i. 311, n. 1; iv. 165, n. 3, 249, n. 1;
mentioned, iv. 170, n. 1, 223, n. 1, 258, n. 2.
COBB, Mrs., ii. 388, 466; iii. 412; iv. 142, 143.
COBHAM, Lord, i. 491, n. 1; iii. 347; iv. 50, n. 4, 102, n. 4.
COBLENTZ, ii. 427, n. 4.
COCHRAN, General, i. 431, n. 1.
COCKBURN, Baron, iii. 335, n. 1.
COCKBURN, Dr., iii. 152, n. 3.
COCKBURN, Lord, civil juries in Scotland, ii. 201, n. 1;
Dundas, Henry, Viscount Melville, ii. 160, n. 1;
Edinburgh High School, ii. 144, n. 2;
Edinburgh in the 18th century, v. 21, n. 1;
Jeffrey's English accent, ii. 159, n. 6;
Scotch county electors, iv. 248, n. 1;
Scotch entails, ii. 414, n. 1;
St. Giles, Edinburgh, v. 41, n. 1;
titles of Scotch judges, v. 77, n. 4.
COCKENZIE, ii. 302, n. 2.
_Cocker's Arithmetic_, v. 138, n. 2.
COCK-LANE GHOST. See GHOSTS.
CODRINGTON, Colonel, iii. 204, n. 1.
COFFEE-HOUSE CRITICS, i. 288.
COFFEY, ----, v. 256, n. 1.
COFFLECT, iv. 77, n. 3.
COHAUSEN, Dr., ii. 427 n. 4.
COIN, exportation of, iv. 104-5.
COKE, Lord, a mere lawyer, ii. 158;
his definition of law, iii. 16, n. 1;
his painful course of study, iv. 310.
COKE, Lady Mary, i. 407, n. 1.
COL, the old Laird of, iii. 133; v. 29, n. 2.
COL, Alexander Maclean, of, the second son, ii. 308, 406, 411.
COL, Donald Maclean, the young Laird of,
account of him, v. 250-1;
the first road-maker, v. 235, n. 2;
plans an excursion for Johnson, v. 254;
accompanies him, v. 256-331;
his bowl of punch, v. 258;
manages the ship in the storm, v. 280-1;
puts a rope in Boswell's hands, v. 282;
_juvenis qui gaudet canibus_, v. 283;
introduces turnips, v. 293;
his family papers, v. 297-9;
takes Johnson to his aunt's house, v. 312;
anecdotes of Sir A. Macdonald, v. 315;
his house in Mull, v. 316;
deserves a statue, v. 327;
his father's deputy, v. 329;
'a noble animal', v. 330;
death, ii. 287-8, 406; v. 331;
mentioned, v. 95, 267, 341.
COLCHESTER, i. 466; iv. 15, n. 5.
COLDS, catching, ii. 51, 150; v. 278.
COLE, Henry, iv. 402, n. 2.
COLEBROOKE, Sir G., ii. 222, n. 3.
COLISEUM, ii. 106.
COLLECTIONS, the desire of augmenting, iv. 105.
COLLEGE OF PHYSICIANS, ii. 297.
COLLEGE TUTOR, an old, advice to his pupils, ii. 237.
COLLEGES. See OXFORD.
COLLIER, Jeremy, censures actors, i. 167, n.. 2;
'fought without a rival,' iv. 286, n. 3.
COLLINS, Anthony, iii. 363, n. 3.
COLLINS, William, affected the obsolete, iii. 159, n. 2;
Johnson's affection for him, i. 276, 383, n. 1;
_Life by Johnson_, i. 382;
madness, his, i. 65, n. 3, 276, 277, 383;
Poems, Glasgow edition, ii. 380.
COLLOQUIAL BARBARISMS, iii. 196.
'COLLYER, Joel', i. 315.
COLMAN, George, the elder,
Boswell's belief in second sight, mocks, ii. 318;
_Connoisseur_, starts the, i. 420,_ n._ 3; ii. 334, n. 3;
Foote's patent, buys, iii. 97;
_Good Natured Man,_ brings out the, iii. 320;
_Jealous Wife, The_, i. 364, n. 1;
Johnson, imitation of, iv. 387-8;
Literary Club, member of the, i. 478, n. 2, 479;
_Odes to Obscurity_, ii. 334;
professor in the imaginary college, v. 108;
_Prose on Several Occasions_, iv. 387;
Round-Robin, signed the, iii. 83;
Shakespeare's Latin, iv. 18;
_She Stoops to Conquer_, brings out, ii. 208, n.. 5;
'Sir, if you don't lie you're a rascal,' iv. 10;
_Student_, contributes to the, i. 209;
_Terence_, translation of, iv. 18;
Westminster School, at, i. 395, n. 2.
COLMAN, George, the son,
Aberdeen, a student at, v. 85, n. 2;
made a freeman of the city, v. 90, n. 2;
Dunbar, Dr., describes, iii. 436, n. 1;
Gibbon's dress, describes, ii. 443, n. 1;
Johnson and Gibbon, describes, iii. 54, n. 2.
COLOGNE, Elector of, iii. 447.
COLONIES, a loss to the community, i. 130, n. 2.
COLQUHOUN, Sir James, v. 363-5.
COLQUHOUN, Lady Helen, v. 365.
COLSON, Rev. Mr.,
Garrick and Johnson recommended to him, i. 102;
_Gelidus,_ i. 101, n. 3.
_Columbiade, The_, iv. 331.
COLUMBUS, i. 455, n. 3; iv. 250.
COLVILL, Lady, v. 387, 394-5.
COMB-MAKER, a punctuating, iii. 32, n. 5.
_Combabus_, iii. 238, n. 2.
COMBERMERE, v. 433-5.
COMBERMERE, Lord, v. 433, n. 1.
COMEDY, distinguished from farce, ii. 95;
its great end, ii. 233.
COMMANDMENT, ninth, emphasis in it, i. 169;
in the sixth, i. 326, n. 1.
COMMENTARIES ON THE BIBLE, iii. 58.
COMMERCE, circulation of, iii. 177;
effect of taxes on it, ii. 357;
effect on relationship, ii. 177;
not necessary to England, ii. 357.
COMMISSARIES, ii. 339, n. 2; iii. 184.
COMMON COUNCIL. See LONDON.
COMMON PEOPLE, inaccuracy in thoughts and words, iii. 136;
their language proverbial, ib.
COMMON PRAYER BOOK, iv. 293.
COMMONS, DOCTORS', i. 462, n. 1.
COMMONS, House of. See DEBATES OF PARLIAMENT and HOUSE OF COMMONS.
COMMUNION OF SAINTS, iv. 290.
COMMUNITY OF GOODS, ii. 251.
COMMUTATION OF SINS AND VIRTUES, iv. 398.
COMPANION, the most welcome one, ii. 359, n. 2;
a lasting one, iv. 235, n. 2.
COMPANY, good things must be provided, iii. 186; iv. 90;
love of mean company, i. 449;
of a new person, iv. 33. See JOHNSON, Company.
COMPIEGNE, ii. 400.
COMPLAINTS, iii. 368.
_Complete Angler_, i. 138, n. 5.
_Complete Vindication of the Licensers of the Stage_, i. 140.
COMPLIMENTS, offending the company by them, iv. 336;
right to repeat them, iii. 240;
without violating truth, iii. 161;
unusual, v. 440, n. 2.
COMPOSITION, causes of hasty, i. 192, n. 5;
errors caused by partial changes, iv. 11;
fine passages to be struck out, ii. 237;
happy moments for it, v. 40;
Johnson's advice, iii. 437; v. 66-8;
man writing from his own mind, ii. 344;
pleasure, not a, iv. 219, n. 1;
practised early, to be, iv. 12;
setting oneself doggedly to it, v. 40, 110.
See JOHNSON, Composition.
_Compositor_, iv. 321, n. 3.
COMPTON, Bishop of London, iii. 445, 447.
_Comus_, Johnson's Prologue to, i. 227.
CONCANEN, Matthew, v. 92, n. 4.
CONCEIT OF PARTS, iii. 316.
_Conceits_, i. 179.
_Concoction_, of a play, iii. 259.
