CONDAMINE, La, _Account of the Savage Girl_, v. 110;
of a Brazilian tribe, v. 242.
CONDE, Prince of, ii. 393, 400.
CONDESCENSION, iv. 3.
CONDUCT, gradations in it, iv. 75;
wrong but with good meaning, iv. 360.
_Conduct of the Ministry_ (1756), i. 309.
CONFESSION, ii. 105; iii. 60.
_Conf. Fab. Burdonum_, ii. 263.
CONFINEMENT, iii. 268.
CONFUCIUS, i. 157, n. 1; iii. 299.
_Conge d'elire_, iv. 323.
CONGLETON, v. 432.
_Conglobulate_, ii. 55.
CONGRESS. See AMERICA.
CONGREVE, Rev. Charles, chaplain to Archbishop Boulter, i. 45;
pious but muddy, ii. 460, 474,
CONGREVE, William,
_Beggar's Opera_, opinion of the, ii. 369. n. 1;
Collier, Jeremy, attacked by, iv, 286, n. 3;
Islam, at, iii. 187;
Johnson's criticism on his plays, iv. 36, n. 3;
_Life_, iv. 56;
_Mourning Bride_, its foolish conclusion, i. 389, n. 2;
compared with Shakespeare, ii. 85-7, 96;
_Old Bachelor_, iii. 187;
Pope's _Iliad_ dedicated to him, iv. 50, n. 4;
_Way of the World_, i. 494, n. 1; ii. 227;
writings, his, make no man better, i. 189, n. 1.
CONINGTON, Professor,
Goldsmith's epitaph and Johnson's Latin, iii. 82, n. 3.
CONJECTURES, how far useful, ii. 260.
CONJUGAL INFIDELITY, ii. 56; iii. 347, 406.
_Connoisseur, The_, i. 420; ii. 334, n. 3.
CONNOR, ----, (Conn), a priest, v. 227, n. 4.
CONSCIENCE, defined by Johnson, ii. 243;
liberty of it, ii. 249.
_Conscious Lovers_, i. 491, n. 3.
_Considerations on the Case of Dr. Trapp's Sermons. See_ Dr. TRAPP.
_Considerations on Corn_. See under CORN.
_Considerations on the Dispute between Crousaz and Warburton_, i. 157.
_Considerations upon the Embargo_, i. 503.
CONSOLATION, ii. 13.
_Consort_ defined, i. 149, n. 2.
CONST, Mr., iii. 16, n. 1.
CONSTANTINOPLE, iv. 28.
CONSTITUENT, iv. 30, n. 4.
CONSTITUTION, Johnson asked to write on it, ii. 441.
CONSTITUTIONAL SOCIETY, iii. 314, n. 6.
_Construction of Fireworks_, v. 246, n. 1.
CONSTRUCTIVE TREASON, iv. 87.
_Contemplation_, v. 117, n. 4.
CONTENT, nobody is content, iii. 241.
CONTI, Prince of, ii. 405, n. 1.
_Continuation of Dr. Johnson's Criticism on the Poems of Gray_,
iv. 392, n. 1.
_Continuity_, iii. 419, n. 1.
CONTRADICTION, iii. 386; iv. 280.
CONTROVERSIES, ii. 442; iii. 10.
CONVENTS. See MONASTERIES.
_Conversable_, v. 437, n. 1.
CONVERSATION, coming close to a man in it, iv. 179;
contest, not animated without a, ii. 444;
is a contest, ii. 450;
eminent men often have little power in it, iv. 19;
envy excited by superiority, iv. 195;
game, like a, ii. 231;
Johnson's description of the happiest kind, ii. 359; iv. 50;
knowledge got by reading compared with that got by it, ii. 361;
old and young, of the, ii. 443, 444, n. 1;
praise instantly reverberated, v. 59;
requisites for it, iv. 166;
rich trader without it, iv. 83;
solid, unsuitable for dinner parties, iii. 57;
talk, distinguished from, iv. 186.
See JOHNSON, Conversation.
_Conversation between His Most Sacred Majesty_, etc., ii. 34, n. 1.
CONVERSIONS, ii. 105; iii. 228.
CONVICT, a, unjustly condemned to death, ii. 285, n. 1.
CONVICTS, punished by being set to work, iii. 268;
religious discipline for them, iv. 329;
sent to America, ii. 312, n. 3.
CONVOCATION, i. 464; iv. 277.
CONWAY, General, ii. 12, n. 1.
CONWAY, Mr. Moncure, i. 85, n. 2.
COOK, Captain, Boswell meets him, iii. 7;
Hawkesworth's edition of his _Voyages_, ii. 247, n. 5; iii. 7; iv. 308.
COOK, Professor, of St. Andrews, v. 64.
COOKE, Thomas (_Hesiod_ Cooke), v. 37.
COOKE, Thomas, the engraver, iv. 421, n, 2.
COOKE, William (_Conversation_ Cooke), ii. 100, n. 1; iv. 254, 437.
COOKERY, Mrs. Glasse's Cookery, iii. 285.
See JOHNSON, Cookery.
COOKSEY, John, ii. 319, n. 1.
COOLEY, William, i. 503.
COOPER, John Gilbert, last of the _Benevolists_, iii. 149, n. 2;
story of his sick son, ib.;
Johnson the Caliban of literature, calls, ii. 129;
anecdote of--and Garrick, iv. 4;
'Punchinello,' ii. 129.
COOPER, M., a bookseller, v. 117, n. 4.
COOTE, Sir Eyre, account of him, v. 124, n. 2;
travels in Arabia, v. 125.
COOTE, Lady, v. 125-6.
COPENHAGEN, v. 46, n, 2.
COPLEY, John, iv. 402, n. 2.
COPPER WORKS, at Holywell, iii. 455; v. 441.
_Copy_, manuscript for printing, iii. 42, n. 2.
COPY-MONEY, in Italy, iii. 162.
COPY-RIGHT, Act of Queen Anne, i. 437, n. 2; iii. iii. 294;
debate on the copy-right bill, i. 304, n. 1;
Donaldson's invasion of supposed right, i. 437;
judgment of the House of Lords, ib.; ii. 272, n, 2; iii. 370;
opinion of the Scotch judges, v. 50,72;
Thurlow's speech, ii. 345, n. 2;
honorary copy-right, iii. 370;
Johnson's plea for one, i. 437, n. 1;
should not be a perpetuity, i. 439; ii. 259;
London Booksellers, claim of the, iii. 110;
metaphysical right in authors, ii. 259.
CORBET, Andrew, i. 45, n. 4, 58, n. 1.
CORDELIA, i. 70, n. 2.
CORELLI, ii. 342.
CORIAT (Coryat) Tom, ii, 175;
_Crudities_, 176, n. 1.
_Coriat Junior_, ii. 175.
CORKE AND ORRERY, fifth Earl of. See ORRERY.
CORKE AND ORRERY, sixth Earl of, i. 257, n. 3.
CORN, bounty on corn (Irish), ii. 130, n. 3;
(English), i. 519; iii. 232;
corn-riots in 1766, 1. 519; iv. 317, n. 1;
exportation, prohibited by proclamation, iv. 317, n. 1;
last year of it, iii. 232, n. 1;
Johnson's _Considerations on Corn_, i. 518; iii. 232, n. 1;
plentiful in the spring of 1778, iii. 226;
previous bad harvests, ib., n. 2;
price artificially raised, iii. 232, n. 1.
CORNBURY, Lord, ii. 425.
CORNEILLE, character of Richelieu, ii. 134, n. 4;
compared with Shakespeare, iv. 16;
goes round the world, v. 311.
CORNELIUS NEPOS, iv. 180.
CORNEWALL, Speaker, iii. 82, n. 2.
CORNISH FISHERMEN, iv. 78.
CORNWALLIS, Archbishop of Canterbury, iii. 125.
CORNWALLIS, Lord, his capitulation, iii. 355, n. 3; iv. 140, n. 2.
_Corps_, a pun on it, ii, 241.
CORPULENCY, iv. 213.
CORRECTION OF PROOF-SHEETS, iv. 321, n. 2.
CORSICA, Antipodes, like the, ii. 4, n. 1;
Boswell's subscription for ordnance, ii. 59, n. 1;
'dangers of the night,' i. 119, n. 1;
France, ceded to, ii. 59, n. 2;
Genoa, revolts from, ii. 59, n. 2, 71, n. 1, 80;
hangman, i. 408, n. 1;
Johnson declaims against the people, ii. 80;
_lingua rustica_, ii. 82;
Seneca's epigrams on it, v. 296;
mentioned, iii. 201.
_Corsica, Boswell's Account of_,
Johnson's advice about it, ii. II, 22;
praise of the _Journal_, ii. 70;
publication and success, ii. 46;
criticisms on it, ib., n. 1;
Preface quoted, ii. 69, n. 3;
translations, ii. 46, n. 1, 56, n. 2.
CORTE, ii. 2, 3, n. 1; v. 237.
_Corteggianno, Il_, v. 276.
'CORYCIUS SENEX,' iv. 173.
COTTAGE, happiness in a, See RUSTIC HAPPINESS.
COTTERELL, Admiral, i. 245.
COTTERELL, Mrs., i. 450, n. 1.
COTTERELLS, the Miss, i. 245-6, 369, 382.
COTTON, Sir Lynch Salusbury, v. 433-4.
COTTON, Lady Salusbury, v. 442, n. 3.
COTTON, Robert, ii. 282, n. 3; v. 433; n. 5, 435, n. 2.
COULSON, Rev. Mr., ii. 381, n. 2; v. 459, n. 4.
COUNCIL OF TRENT, ii. 105.
_Council of Trent, History of the_, i. 107, 135.
COUNTESS, anecdote of a, iv. 274.
COUNTING, awkward at counting money, iv. 27;
effects of it, iv. 4, n. 4, 204;
modern practice, iii. 356, n. 3;
nation that cannot count, v. 242.
COUNTRY GENTLEMEN,
artificially raise the price of corn, iii. 232, n. 1;
disconcerted at laying out ten pounds, iv. 4;
duty to reside on their estates, iii. 177, 249;
hospitality, iv. 204, 221;
living beyond their income, v. 112;
living in London, iv. 164;
parliament, reason for entering, iii. 234;
prisoners in a jail, v. 108;
stewards, should be their own, v. 56;
superiority over their people, iv. 164;
tedious hours, ii. 194;
wives should visit London, iii. 178.
COUNTRY LIFE, meals wished for from vacuity of mind, v. 159;
mental imprisonment, iv. 338;
neighbours, v. 352-3;
pleasure soon exhausted, iii. 303;
popularity seeking, iii. 353;
science, good place for studying a, iii. 253;
time at one's command, iii. 353.
COURAGE, not a Christian virtue, iii. 289;
reckoned the greatest of virtues, ii. 339; iii. 266;
mechanical, ib.;
respected even when associated with vice, iv. 297.
COURAVER, Dr., i. 107, 135; iv. 127, n. 2.
COURT, attendants on it, i. 333;
manners best learnt at small courts, v. 276.
COURT, 'A shilling's worth of court for six-pence worth of good,' ii. 10.
COURT-MOURNING, iv. 325.
COURT OF SESSION. See SCOTLAND.
_Court of Session Garland. See_ BOSWELL.
COURTENAY, John,
Boswell to make a cancel in the _Life_, persuades, i. 520;
receives his vow of comparative sobriety, ii. 436, n. 1;
Jenyns, Soame, i. 316;
member of the Literary Club, i. 479;
_Moral and Literary Character of Dr. Johnson_, descriptions of
Boswell, i. 223; ii. 268;
Johnson's English poetry, i. 181, n. 3;
in the Hebrides, ii. 268;
humanity, iv. 322, n. 1;
Latin poetry, i. 62;
rapid composition, iv. 381, n. 1;
_Rasselas_, i. 344;
style and 'school,' i. 222;
Reynolds's dinner-parties, iii. 375, n. 2;
Strahan, Rev. Mr., iv. 376, n. 4;
Swift's _Tale of a Tub_, ii. 319, n. 1;
mentioned, iii. 305. 310; iv. 315.
COURTING THE GREAT,
Johnson opposed to it, i. 131;
his advice about it, ii. 10.
COURTNEY, Mr. Leonard H., M.P., i. 376, n. 2.
COURTOWN, Lord, ii. 376.
COURTS OF JUSTICE, afraid of Wilkes, iii. 46, n. 5.
COURTS-MARTIAL, Dicey, Professor, on them, iii. 46, n. 5;
Johnson present at one, iii. 361;
one of great importance, iv. 12.
COVENT GARDEN. See LONDON.
_Covent Garden Journal_, ii. 119, n. 4.
COVENTRY, i. 357; iv. 402, n. 2.
COVENTRY, Lady, v. 353, n. 1; 359, n. 2.
COVERLEY, Sir Roger de. See ADDISON.
_Covin_, ii. 199.
COVINGTON, Lord, iii. 213.
Cow, shedding its horns, iii. 84, n. 2.
COWARDICE, mutual, iii. 326.
COWDRY, iv. 160.
COWLEY, Abraham, 'Cowley, Mr. Abraham,' iv. 325, n. 3;
Dryden's youth, the darling of, iv. 38, n. 1;
fashion, out of, iv. 102, n. 2;
Hurd's _Selections_, iii. 29, 227;
_Imitation of Horace_, i. 284, n. 1;
Johnson meditated an edition of his works, iii. 29;
ridicules the fiction of love, i. 179;
writes his _Life_, iv. 38;
life, on, iv. 154;
love poems, ii. 78, n. 3;
_Ode to Liberty_, iv. 154, n. 2;
_Ode to Mr. Hobs_, ii. 241, n. 1;
_Ode upon the Restoration_, v. 333, n. 3;
Pope, compared with, v. 345;
vows, on, iii. 357, n. 1;
_Wit and Loyalty_, v. 57, n. 2;
mentioned, i. 252, n. 3.
COWLEY, Father, ii. 399, n. 3.
COWPER, Earl, iii. 16, n. 1.
COWPER, J. G. See COOPER.
COWPER, William, annihilation, longs for, iii. 296, n. 1;
avenues, v. 439, n. 1;
Beckford and Rigby, anecdote of, iii. 76, n. 2;
_Biographia Britannica_, lines on the, iii. 174, n. 3;
Browne, I. H., anecdote of, v. 156, n. i;
Churchill's poetry, admires, i. 419, n. 4;
_Collins's Life_, reads, i. 382, n. 7;
_Connoisseur_, contributes to the, i. 420, n. 3;
dreads a vacant hour, i. 144, n. 2;
'dunces sent to roam,' iii. 459;
Heberden, praises, iv. 228, n. 2;
_Homer_, translates, iii. 333, n. 2;
_John Gilpin_, iv. 138, n. 3;
Johnson's 'conversion,' iv. 272, n. 1;
criticism of Milton, iv. 42, n. 7;
writes an epitaph on, ii. 225, n. 3; iv. 424, n. 2;
recommends his first volume, iii. 333, n. 2;
Mediterranean as a subject for a poem, iii. 36, n. 3;
Milton, undertakes an edition of, i. 319, n. 4;
Omai, the 'gentle savage,' iii. 8, n. 1;
overwhelmed by the responsibility of an office, iv. 98, n. 3;
Pope's _Homer_, criticises, iii. 257, n. 1;
'Scripture is still a trumpet to his fears,' iv. 300, n. 1;
silence, habit of, iii. 307, n. 2;
'the solemn fop,' i. 266, n. 1;
'The sweet vicissitudes of day and night,' v. 117, n. 4;
Thurlow's character, draws, iv. 349, n. 3;
experiences his neglect, ib.;
Unwins, introduced to the, i. 522;
Westminster School, at, i. 395, n. 2;
_Whole Duty of Man_, despises the, ii. 239, n. 4.
COX, Mr., a solicitor, iv. 324.
_Coxcomb_, ii. 129; iii. 245, n. 1; v. 377, 378, n. 1.
COXETER, Thomas, iii. 30, n. 1; iii. 158.
COXETER,--, the younger, iii. 158, iv. n. 1.
COXHEATH CAMP, iii. 365, 374.
CRABBE, Rev. George,
Johnson revises _The Village_, iv. 121, n. 4, 175.
CRADOCK, Joseph, account of him, iii. 38;
Garrick at the Literary Club, iii. 311, n. 3;
Goldsmith and Gray, i. 404, n. 1;
_Hermes and Tristram Shandy_ ii, 225, n. 2;
Johnson at a tavern dinner, i. 470, n. 2;
compliment to Goldsmith, iii. 82, n. 3;
parody of Percy, ii. 136, n. 4;
words should be written in a book, iii, 39;
Percey's character, iii. 276, n. 2;
Shakespeare Jubilee, ii. 68, n. 2;
Warburton's reading, ii. 36, n. 2.
CRAGGS, James, Pope's epitaph on him, iv. 444;
mentioned with his son, i. 160.
CRAIG, ----, the architect, James Thomson's nephew, iii. 360; v. 68.
CRANMER, Archbishop, ii, 364, n. 1.
CRANMER, George, ii, 364, n. 3.
CRANSTON, David, v. 406.
CRASHAW, Richard, iii. 304, n. 3.
CRAVEN, Lord, i. 337, n. 1.
CRAVEN, Lady, iii. 22.
_Creation_, Blackmore's, ii. 108.
CREATOR, compared with the creature, iv. 30-1.
CREDULITY, general, v. 389
CREEDS, v. 120.
CRESCIMBENI, i. 278.
CRICHTON, Robert, Lord Sanquhar, v. 103, n. 3.
CRISP, Samuel, iv. 239, n. 3.
_Critical Review_,
account of it, owned by Hamilton, ii. 226, n. 3;
edited by Smollett, iii. 32, n. 2;
_Critical Strictures_ reviewed, i. 409, n. 1;
Griffiths and the Monthly, attack on, iii. 32, n. 2;
Johnson reviews Graham's _Telemachus_, i. 411;
and _The Sugar Cane_, i. 481, n. 4;
description of a valley
praised, v. 141, n. 2;
Lyttelton's gratitude for a review, iv. 57;
Murphy attacked, i. 355;
payment to writers, iv. 214, n. 2;
principles good, ii. 40; iii. 32;
Rutty's _Diary_ reviewed, iii. 170;
reviewers write from their own mind, iii. 32.
CRITICISM, examples of true, ii. 90;
justified, i. 409;
negative, v. 322.
CRITICS, authors very rarely hurt by them, iii. 423.
See ATTACKS.
CROAKER. See GOLDSMITH.
CROFT, Rev. Herbert, advice to a pupil, iv. 308;
_Family Discourses_, iv. 298;
_Life of Young_, his, adopted by Johnson, iv. 58;
described by Burke, iv. 59;
quoted, i. 373, n. 2.
CROKER, Rt. Hon. John Wilson. (In this Index I give reference only to
the passages in which I differ from him.)
Bentley's verses, change in one of, iv. 23. n. 3;
Boswell's account of Johnson's death, iv. 399, n. 1;
Boswell's 'injustice' to Hawkins, iv. 138, n. 2;
Burke's praise of Johnson's _Journey_, iii. 137, n. 3;
Campbell, Dr. T., mistake about, ii. 343, n. 2;
'a celebrated friend,' iii. 409, n. 6;
Chesterfield's present to Johnson, i. 261, n.,3;
_Edinburgh Review_ and his 'blunders,' ii. 338, n. 2;
emendations of the text, i. 16; iii. 426, n. 2;
Fitzherbert's suicide, iii. 384, n. 4;
Fox, Lady Susan, and W. O'Brien, ii. 328, n. 3;
Homer's shield of Achilles, iv. 33, n. 2;
Johnson's _Abridgment of the Dictionary_, i. 303, n. 1;
Debates, i. 509;
'ear spoilt by flattery,' i. 60, n. 2;
and Hon. T. Hervey, ii. 33, n. 2;
and Jackson, iii, 137 n. 2;
_London_, Thales and Savage, i. 125 n. 4;
memory of Gray's lines, iv. 138, n. 4;
and _The Monthly Review_, iii. 30, n. 1;
and the rebellion of 1745, i. 176, n. 2;
reference to Lord Kames, iii, 340, n. 2;
title of Doctor, i. 488, n. 3;
Langton's will, ii. 261, n. 2;
Lawrences, date of the deaths of the two, iv. 230, n. 2;
Literary Clubs, records of the, ii. 345 n. 5;
Macaulay's criticisms on him, i, 157, n. 5; ii. 391, n. 4;
iv. 144, n. 2; v. 234, n. 1; 298, n. 1;
Mayo, Dr. and Dr. Meyer, ii. 253, n. 2;
Millar, Andrew, i. 287, n. 3;
proofs and sanctions, ii. 194, n. 2;
Montagu, Edward, iii. 408, n. 3;
Romney, George, iii. 43, n. 4;
Sacheverel at Lichfield i. 39;
suppression of a note, iv. 138, n. 2;
