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Careless, Mrs., Hector's sister, and
Johnson's first love, iii. 43.
Caricatures of Johnson's style, ii.

330.

Carleton, Captain, his memoirs, iv.
375; Who was the author of?
376, 377; Johnson, much in-
terested by, 245.
Carlisle, the Earl of, his poems
praised by Johnson, iv. 65;
kinsman and guardian of Byron,
65 n.;
his tragedy submitted to
Johnson, 175; who gives his
opinion of it in a letter to Mrs.
Chapone, 176, 177.

Carmen Seculare of Horace, a
translation of, given to Johnson
to read, iii. 368.

Carmichael, Miss, a pensioner of
Johnson's, iii. 241.

Carnan, Mr., a bookseller, iii.

151.

Carter, Mrs. Elizabeth, 84; the
translator of Crousaz's Examen
of Pope's Essay on Man, 98;
Johnson's English verses to, and
Greek and Latin epigrams to,
100; contributes to the Rambler,
i. 150.

Cartwright, Edmund, letter to, on
Shiels and Cibber, iii. 472.
Case for Dr. Johnson's opinion, iii.
383; Malone's note on, 383 n.
See also, Argument.
Castes, Oriental, Johnson defends,
iv. 45.

Cast of Johnson's head, by Nolle-

kens, iii. 461, 462.
Catalogue of the library of the Earl
of Oxford, proposals by Johnson
for printing, i.'111; of schemes
for literary work, with Boswell's
remarks, iv. 380.

Catalogues, Johnson shows the ne-
cessity of studying, ii. 332.
Catcot, George, the pewterer of
Bristol, iii. 94, 95.

Cator, Mr., one of Johnson's co-
trustees, his fine place at Beck-
enham, iv. 230.

Cave, Edward, compiler and editor

of the Gentleman's Magazine, i.
55; Johnson's first publisher, 72;
in account with Johnson, 96;
on the Rambler, 156 n., 197, iii.
323; Johnson's regard for, al-
though he was a penurious pay-
master, iv. 313; Latin verses to,
i. 77.
Cawston, Mr. Windham's servant,
with Johnson in his last illness,
iv. 322.
Certainties, small, the bane of men
of small talents, ii. 297.
Chalmers, George, his edition of
the Debates, i. 109, 409.
Cham: Johnson called by Smollett,
"that great Cham of literature,"
i. 276.
Chamberlayne, Mr. George, a Ca-
tholic priest, a conscientious
pervert, iv. 211.

Chambers, Catherine, her tender
care of Johnson's mother, i. 267;
Johnson's farewell to her, 267 n.,
ii. 58, 375, 377.

Sir Robert, Johnson intimate
with, i. 212, ii. 41; goes as a
judge to Bengal, 245; accom-
panies Johnson to Edinburgh,
245, 253; marries the beautiful
Miss Wilton, 255 n. ; introduced
to Warren Hastings by Johnson,
iv. 29.

Sir William, his treatise on
Civil Architecture, praised by
Horace Walpole and by John-
son, iv. 128 n.; his Chinese Ar-
chitecture submitted to John-
son's revision, ibid.

Ephraim, author of the Scien-
tific Dictionary, Johnson forms
his style partly from, iii. 270 n.
Chamier, Mr., one of the original

members of the Club, ii. 2; his
conversation with Goldsmith
about the Traveller, iii. 266.
Chantilly visited, ii. 362.
Chantress, the, Johnson's name for
Miss Jones, i. 253.

Chappe d'Auteroche, his journey
into Siberia, used by Lord

Coat, Goldsmith's bloom-coloured,

ii. 89, 90.
Cobb, Mrs., one of the Lichfield
ladies, iii. 49, 399 n.
Cock-lane ghost, this imposture
detected by Johnson, i. 323;
account of, iii. 277.
Cohausen, John Henry, author of
Hermippus Redivivus, i. 331.
Coke, Lord, a mere lawyer, ii. 155.
Colchester, Johnson and Boswell
at, i. 371.

Collectanea, by Dr. Maxwell, ii.

116-31.

Collections of editions of books,

Johnson advises, iv. 203.
Collins, the poet, his dreadful de-
pression, i. 214 n., 304.
Collier, Jeremy, Johnson alludes
to, iv. 210.

Colman's Random Records quoted,
giving a description of Johnson
and Gibbon, iii. 97 n.
Colman, Mr., his letter from Lexi-
phanes, iv. 295.

Colonsay, Little and Old, Boswell
proposes to Johnson to buy it,
and found a college there, iii.

167.

Colson, Rev. John, Johnson recom-
mended to, i. 67.
Columbiade, The, an epic poem by

Madame du Boccage, iv. 243.
Comedy, the great end of, making
the audience merry, ii. 220.
Commentaries, Johnson recom-
mended Lowth and Patrick on
the Old, and Hammond on the
New Testament, iii. 101.
Commerce, Dictionary of, by Rolt,
Johnson's Preface to, ii. 315.
Commons, House of, Johnson's
friends endeavour to get him a
seat in, ii. 134, 135 n.; he would
gladly have entered, 136; Bo-
lingbroke's description of, iii.

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Compiègne, visited, ii. 363.
Composition, Johnson's, iv. 1;
amendments in, 4 n.; Johnson
says a man should begin to
write soon, iii. 435.

Compton, Rev. J., Johnson's kind-
ness to, iv. 366, 367.
Concoction, the, of a play, an ex-
pression used by Dryden, in his
preface to Edipus, iii. 272; and
by Garrick, 272 n.

Condolence, Johnson's letter of, to
Mrs. Thrale, iii. 468.

Conduct, rules and resolutions for,
i. 280.

Confession, Johnson on, ii. 106.
Congé d'élire, the force of a, iv.
237 n.

Congratulations and good wishes
for the new year, iii. 233, 234.
Congreve, Charles, Johnson's
schoolfellow, i. 19; "always
muddy," iii. 43.

W., the poet, fine passages
in his Mourning Bride, i. 309,
ii. 90, 91, 98; quoted, 214;
various readings in Johnson's
Life of, iv. 19.

Connoisseur, The, an amusing pe-
riodical paper, i. 334.

Connor, Charles O', letters from
Johnson to, i. 251, iii. 146.
Conscience, Johnson's tenderness
of, ii. 5, iv. 303-5.

Contentment, Johnson on, iv. 289.
Contractions, Johnson's, of his
friends' names, ii. 240.

Convents, Johnson on the propriety
of allowing, ii. 27.
Conversation, Johnson's, i. 5-8;
Archdeacon Secker on, quoted,
8; the vigour of Johnson's,
313; likened to a bowl of punch,
260; specimens of Johnson's, ii.
29-31; Johnson's, with George
III., 51-55; an account of this,
published separately by Bos
well, 52 n.; Johnson's own ac-
count of, 56; Goldsmith's, on a
certain occasion, "overflowed
and drowned" one of the party,

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ii. 123; Goldsmith's constant
attempts to shine in, 217, 219,
239; Johnson's great success
in, 218: Johnson thinks, to
be good, implies contest, iii. 30:
Johnson's, described by Dr.
Perey, 320, iv. 13; Pope's, not
renowned, 13; Johnson's defini-
tion of the happiest, 14; story
of the man who had none, 42; a
trial of skill, 64; requires know-
ledge, a command of words,
imagination, presence of mind,
a resolution not overcome by
failures, 112; and talk, distin-
guished, 127; Burke, on Lang-
ton's accusing Johnson of rough-
ness in, 205.
Converts, from Protestantism to
Popery and from Popery to Pro-
testantism compared, ii. 107.
Convocation, Johnson advocates its
restoration, i. 369.

Convulsive motions of Johnson, i.
103, 104.

Cookery, Johnson thinks himself a
judge of, i. 373; discussion on,
iii. 293; the best book on,

293.

Cook, Captain, his great accuracy,
iii. 62; his voyage round the
world, iii. 205.

Cooper, John Gilbert, called by

Johnson Punchinello, ii. 127;
the affected gentleman, iii. 180,
Copy-money, in Italy first received
by Baretti, iii. 190.

Corbett, Mr. Andrew, and his son,
in connection with Johnson's re
sidence at Oxford, i. 30.
Corelli, said to have come to bug
land to see Purcell, ii. 313
Coriat, Tom, his travels, under tuk
title of "Crudities," . 179.
Cork, Earl of, Johnson deserler,
iii. 208.

Corn laws," What, Sir, would you
prevent any people from feeding
themselves, if by any hous!
means they can do it ? ii. 128.
Cornwallis, Archbishop, assists De

Groot, the nephew of Grotius,
iii. 158.

Corps, “Il y a tant d'espri”, que je
n'ai pas vu de corps," said of a
preacher, i. 226 0.

Correspondence, Boswell's, with
Johnson, ii. 21.

Corsica, Johnson encourages Bos-
well to publish his Tour in, IL
27; its publication, 60; Boswell's
account of, and Tour in, Gray's
letter to Walpole on, quoted,
60; Mr. Trevelyan on, 60;
Boswell wears this name on his
hat at the Shakespeare Jubilee,
78;
Johnson advises Boswell
"to clear his head of," 78 n. ¡
account of, Preface to, quoted
by Boswell himself, 79; John-
son's praise of, 80.
Corsicans, their bravery extolled
by Boswell and denied by John-
son, ii. 87.

Corycius Senex, Virgil's saying of,
applied to Burke, iv, 117,
Cotterell, Captain Charles, i. 187.

the Misses, visited by John-
son, Reynolds meets Johnson
at their house, 187 #
Country, they who are content to
live in the country are fit for the
country, 14, 244'; dobowm on
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Croft, Rev. Herbert, his style
described by Burke, iv. 21;
his Family Discourses, 220; his
advice to a pupil always to read
a book through, 226.
Croker, Ally, an Irish song, cele-
brating a well-known beauty,
iii. 265.
Crompton, Mr., the master of the

school at Solihull, who "huffed
the ffeoffees," i. 58.
Cromwell, Oliver, Johnson's de-
sign of writing the Life of, iv.
166.

Crosbie, Mr. Andrew, talks learn-
edly of alchemy with Johnson,
ii. 341.

Crossbow, argument like an arrow
from a crossbow, iv. 206.

Cross readings, Caleb Whitefoord's
amusing, iv. 237.

Crown and Anchor, dinner at, with
Johnson, Reynolds, &c., iii. 87.
Crouch, Mrs., "the celebrated,"
iv. 159.

Crousaz and Warburton, their
dispute on Pope's Essay on Man,
Considerations on, by Johnson,
i. 114.

Crudities, by Tom Coriat, ii. 170.
Cruikshank, Mr., Johnson writes
to, from Ashbourne, iv. 275;
attends Johnson in his last ill-
ness, iv. 169; Johnson leaves
him a book as a remembrance,
309.

Cui bono, a, man, Dr. Shaw's dis-
like to, iv. 64.

Cullen, Dr., consulted by Boswell
for Johnson, iv. 191.

- Mr., afterwards Lord, a great
mimic, ii. 151.

Culloden, no quarter given at, ii.

340; the Macdonalds attribute
the loss of the day to their clan
not being given its place on
the right of the others, 250 n.
Cumberland, Richard, his Me-
moirs quoted on Johnson's early
difficulties, i. 68; his odes pub-
lished, iii. 90; "a million,"
says Johnson, when speaking of
the want of company, iv. 292.

the Duchess of, account of,
ii. 211 n.; Goldsmith's compli-
ment to, in his play, ii. 211;
Paoli's neat saying on the oc-
casion, ibid.

Currat Lex, the motto chosen by
Johnson for Dr. Dodd's picture,
iv. 144.

Curates, their small stipends, iii.

170.

Curiosities picked up by Johnson
in Scotland, ii. 250 n.
Curiosity, the distinguishing mark
of a generous mind, "the thirst
of the soul," i. 53.
"Curll, must have a special care
to leave the margin wide," i. 103.

Curran, his imitation of Mr. Grat-
tan's manners described by
Byron, ii. 299.

Cust, Francis Cockayne, his story
about Savage, i. 125.

Dacier, Madame, her prose trans-

lation of Homer, iii. 333.
Dæmonology, by King James, iii.
374.

Daline, Olof, his history of Sweden
commended, ii. 153.
Dalrymple, Sir David. See Lord
Hailes.

Sir John, his Memoirs of
Great Britain and Ireland, ii.
199; an honest man, but his
writings mere bounce, 200.
Dalzel, Professor, on Johnson's
knowledge of Greek, iv. 293.
Dance, report that Johnson was
learning to, iv. 39, 40.

Mr., the architect, ii. 156.
Dante, the "divini poetae," quoted
by Boswell, iii. 246.
Darteneuf, Charles, an epicure,
iii. 32 n.

Davies, Mr. Thomas, his book-
seller's shop at No. 8, Russell
Street, i. 309; introduces Bos-
well to Johnson, 311; encou-
rages Boswell to follow up the
introduction, 313; his pretty
wife, ii. 6; his sympathies with
Baretti, 96, 97; publishes some
writings of Johnson without
authority, 251; entertains John-
son, Boswell, &c., at dinner,
311; his retiring from the stage,
iii. 242; his benefit, 262 n.;
his entertaining memoirs of
Garrick, 418; dressed as the
Thane of Ross, 431; Johnson's
letter to, in his illness, and his
cordial regard for, iv. 162; John-
son's affectionate letter to, from
Ashbourne, 276.

Dashwood, Sir Henry, marries
the beautiful Miss Graham, iii.
395.

Dawkins, Henry, mentioned as an

instance of the enjoyment of
wealth, iv. 76.

Dean, Richard, his work, main-
taining the Future Life of Brute
Creatures, ii. 66.

Death, Johnson on violent, i. 262;
conversation on, ii. 107, 108;
not death, but life that is impor-
tant, 108; Johnson's annoyance
at the discussion of the subject,
108; his fear of, explained,
278; the gate of life, iii. 301;
the fear of, discussed, Johnson's
horror of, 183, 302, iv. 202, 220,
302;
who can run the race with?
270; Johnson's, 320; his wife's,
i. 178-86.
Debates, Johnson's parliamentary,
i. 79, 80, 109, 110; editor's note
on the history of, 409-13; Mr.
Nichols gives an account of
Johnson's conversation about,
shortly before his death, iv. 313.
Debt, Johnson arrested for, i. 238;
a calamity, not merely an incon-
venience, iv. 100.

De Claris Oratoribus, Johnson
would have made an admirable
work on, iv. 232.
Dedication to the Earl of Orrery
for Mrs. Lenox, i. 196; to the
Queen for Mr. Hoole's Tasso,
304; to the Marquis of Abreu for
Mr. Baretti's Dictionary, 279;
to the King for Dr. Kennedy's
Astronomical Chronology, 290;
to the Earl of Middlesex for Mrs.
Lenox's Female Quixote, 291;
to the Earl of Shaftesbury for
Mr. Bennet's edition of Ascham's
English works (said to have been
in reality edited by Johnson),
381; to Edward Duke of York
for some Music for the German
Flute, ii. 21; to the King for
Gwyn's London and Westminster
Improved, 41; to the King for
Mr. Adams' Treatise on the
Globes, 59; for Angel's Short-
Hand, 212; for Mr. Derby,
iii. 147

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