Careless, Mrs., Hector's sister, and Johnson's first love, iii. 43. Caricatures of Johnson's style, ii.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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,
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,
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 Life in the, ii, 129, m. 294, 09 wisk with wil be in the, ANN 19, 1995 1.86, Aratum ekk like, w. Zay
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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.
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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