Chapone, Hester, account of her meeting Johnson, i. 223.
Johnson's letter to, v. 136.
Charade, Johnson's, on Dr. Barnard, v. 72. Character, influence of, iv. 217, 218. Characters, first instance of delineation of, iv. 363.
how historians should draw, iv. 278. showing only the bright side of, iv. 421. extraordinary, generally exaggerated, iii. 337.
Charing Cross, iii. 213.
Charity, Christian, v. 178.
— judicious distribution of, iii. 69
- Johnson's unbounded, ii. 30; iii. 69; iv. 269, 269 n.; v. 219. Charlemont, James, first Earl of, ii. 223, 341; iv. 220 n., 298, 450 n. Charles the First, ii. 202; iii. 35; iv. 244. the Second, iii. 215, 245; iv. 408.
- Edward, Prince, ii. 418 n., 419 n. See Pretender.
the Fifth, celebration of his funeral obsequies during his lifetime, iv. 102. - the Twelfth of Sweden, i. 68; iv. 121. Charlton, Dr., v. 129.
Charms, belief in, ii. 395, 395 n. Chastity, ii. 57, 429; iv. 286 n. Chatham, William, first Earl of, ii. 188,
215; iii. 190; iv. 223; v. 213, 214 n. Chatsworth, iii. 126, 127 .; iv. 60; v. 272.
Chatterton, Thomas, his poems, iii. 415, 416; v. 13, 13 r. Chedworth, Lord, v. 404.
Chemistry, Johnson's fondness for, iv. 272, 340 n.; v. 122. Chester, iii. 134.
Chesterfield, Philip Dormer Stanhope, fourth Earl of, i. 23, 126, 157, 172 n., 192 n., 244, 249 n., 254; ii. 199, 294 n., 337 n., 361; iii. 203, 418, 472, 503; iv. 219, 259, 296, 301, 448, 503; v. 53, 242.
his admirable rule of conduct, ii. 384. - his Treatise on Health,' iii. 391. Cheynel, Francis, Johnson's life of, ii. 283. Children, treatment and education of, i.
14, 20, 38, 464; ii. 102, 332, 435; iii. 294, 393, 492 n.; iv. 256, 353, 379, 380.
China, wall of, iv. 125. Chinese language, iv. 205.
'Choice of difficulties,' ii. 378, 378 n.
- religion, evidences of, i. 407, 443, 458, 466; v. 228.
disturbed in his faith, v. 105. Christianity, the highest perfection of hu- manity, ii. 28.
the atonement the great article of, ii. 322 n.; iv. 41, 498; v. 332. Christians, the differences among, iv. 40. Christ's satisfaction, ii. 322.
Church, the satisfaction of meeting at, iv. 464.
Church of England, ecclesiastical disci- pline of, v. 175, 175 n.
patronage, iii. 229.
property, confiscated, v. 38 n. architecture, iii. 328.
Churchill, Charles, the poet, i. 95, 437 n., 496, 514; iv. 78; v. 228.
his satire on Johnson, i. 309, 415. Johnson's opinion of his poetry, i.
Churton, Rev. Ralph, ii. 243 n.; v. 93, 199, 199 n., 371.
Cibber, Colley, i. 120, 150 n., 244, 410, 415 n.; ii. 92, 205 n., 519; iii. 44, 197 n., 214, 401, 435 n. ; iv. 35, 35 ng
his Apology,' iii. 435.
- Theophilus, his Lives of the Poets,' i. 161, 161 n.; iii. 395 n., 481 n., 531. Mrs., ii. 357.
Cicero, his defence of the study of the law, ii. 49 n.
- his character of Appius applied by Mr. Burke to Johnson, v. 291 n.
Clans, order of the Scottish, iii. 112. Clare, Robert Nugent, Lord, i. 426; ii. 123.
- some account of, ii. 123 n.; iv. 168. Clarendon, Edward Hyde, Earl of, ii. 81; iv. 219.
- Manuscripts, iii. 310, 310 n. Claret, characterised by Johnson, iv. 196, 252, 449.
Clarissa Harlowe,' i. 210; iii. 408 n.; iv. 361.
-Johnson recommends an Index Re- rum' to, i. 210.
'Clarissa Harlowe,' preface to, written by Dr. Warburton, i. 243 n.
Clark, Alderman Richard, iv. 202 n.; v. 148.
Clark, Johnson's letter to, v. 148.
Mr., his pamphlet on Ossian, v. 142. Clarke, Dr. Samuel, i. 407; ii. 106, 514. his Evidences' recommended by John- son, i. 407.
his Sermons,' iv. 103.
- Johnson's death-bed recommendation of, v. 332. 345, 345 n.
Clenard, Nicholas, his Greek grammar, iv. 351.
- some account of, iv. 351 n.
'Cleone,' Dodsley's tragedy of, i. 324; iv. 352.
'Cleonice,' Hoole's play of, iii. 165, 165 n. Clergy, ii. 166, 167, 171 n., 351; iii. 502; iv. 163, 462.
their preaching not sufficiently plain, i. 381, 470.
not sufficiently acquainted with their parishioners, i. 387.
English, ii. 476.
Scottish, ii. 141, 325, 476. Irish, i. 391.
lax jollity of, offensive, iv. 446.
dress of, should be in character, iv. 446. Clergyman, Addison's portrait of, iv. 446. Johnson's model of, iv. 447.
his excellent letter to a young, iv. 324. Clerk, Sir Philip Jennings, iv. 452. Climate, ii. 158.
Clive, Robert, first Lord, iv. 195, 218, 275. Mrs., ii. 357; iv. 339; v. 131. Clothes, fine, iii. 365.
Club, Ivy-lane, formed by Johnson, i. 163, 308; v. 143, 166.
- Literary, founded by Sir Joshua Rey- nolds, i. 490, 528; ii. 16, 17, 19, 223, 220, 470. See Literary Club.
Boar's-head, ii. 471. Queen's Arms, iv. 460. in Old-street, v. 66, 165. Essex-head, v. 144, 145.
– Eumelian, v. 304 n.
Cobb, Mrs. i. 5 n.; ii. 61, 68, 131;
iii. 125 n., 255, 355; iv. 267.
- some account of, iv. 289 n. Cock-lane ghost, iv. 123. Cocker's Arithmetic, ii. 369 n.
Coin of the realm, exportation of, iv. 477. Coke, Lord, ii. 151; v. 233.
Col, island of, ii. 512, 515, 520, 527, 529 n.; iii. 557, 560.
the laird of, ii. 328; iii. 21, 24, 26, 26 n, 163, 557.
Colborne, the calculating boy, iii. 325 n. Colchester, i. 479.
Colebrooke, Sir George, ii. 95. Coliseum, Johnson's mind compared to the, ii. 109.
Collier, Jeremy, v. 186 n.
Dr. of the Commons, iii. 394; iv. 230.
Collins, William, the poet, i. 110 n., 239, 262, 263, 264, 291, 372; iii. 253. Colman, George, esq., i. 183; ii. 341; iii. 193, 420 n., 459; iv. 180, 341, 350. his 'Odes to Obscurity and Oblivion,' iii. 209.
his imitation of Johnson's style, v. 364.
- George, esq., jun., his Random Re- cords' quoted, iii. 420.
Colquhoun, Sir James, iii. 58.
Lady Helen, iii. 60.
Colson, Rev. John, i. 72.
- some account of, i. 72 n., 192, 192 n. ; iii. 158, 159 n. See Coulson.
Colville, Lady Dowager, iii. 82, 82 n. Alexander, fourth Lord, ii. 82 n. · Lady, iii. 82 n., 91. Combermere, iii. 131, 131 n.
Commandment, the ninth, modes of placing the emphasis on, i. 144.
Commentaries on the Bible, iii. 424. Commerce, iii. 232.
Common Prayer, Book of, v. 193. Commons, House of, iv. 477. See Par- liament.
Communion of Saints, v. 189, 189 n. Community of souls, doctrine of, ii. 236. Company, v. 209.
-cause of Johnson's fondness for, i. 116. Compassion, Johnson's, v. 182.
Compliments, iii. 255; iv. 9, 204, 227, 320, 392.
Complaints, iv. 362, 382; v. 51, 231. Composition, iv. 325, 342, 344.
Congreve, Rev. Charles, Johnson's school- fellow, i. 19; iii. 348, 364. Conjugal infidelity, iv. 280, 280 n. Connoisseur,' the, i. 433. Conscience, scruples of, iv. 398. Const, Francis, esq., iii. 381 n. Constitution, the British, iii. 330. Constructive treason, iv. 461. Contentment, iii. 554; iv. 96. Contradiction, iv. 258.
-Johnson's spirit of, iii. 371, 388, 428,
521; iv. 455, 455 n.
Convents, i. 354; ii. 10, 298; iii. 323. Conversation, i. 320; iii. 236, 332, 362, 422; iv. 101, 187, 360, 365, 396, 417, 418; iv. 45, 65, 72, 178; v. 230, 231. the happiest kind of, iii. 234.
- Johnson's opinion of French, i. 481. his affected discernment in the art of, i. 141 n.
books of, should be written on philo- sophical principles, iv. 143.
Glass's, written by Dr. Hill, iv. 144. Cooper, John Gilbert, author of the Life of Socrates,' i. 387; iii. 514; iv. 336. - some account of, i. 387. Coote, Sir Eyre, ii. 356. Copy-money, in Italy, iv. 10.
Copy-right, i. 451; ii. 307: see Literary Property.
Corbett, Mr. Andrew, i. 29.
Corelli, the singer, iii. 217.
Coriat, Tom, ii. 169.
'Coriat, Junior,' Paterson's, ii. 169.
Cork and Orrery, Hamilton, sixth Earl of, i. 387; iv. 34.
Edmund, seventh Earl of, iv. 307. Countess of, iv. 307, 481.
some account of, iv. 307 n.
Corn laws, i. 189.
Corneille, Pierre, i. 516; iii. 4; iv. 347. Cornish fishermen, iv. 449.
Corsica, ii. 11, 21, 47, 59, 60, 71 n., 72, 73, 81, 524 n. "Corteggiano' of Castiglione, the best book on good-breeding, ii. 501. Cottages in Skie described, ii. 481. Cotterel, Admiral, i. 227 n.
Miss, i. 227, 359, 371; iii. 41 n. Cotton, Sir Lynch Salusbury, iii. 31. Sir Robert Salusbury, iii. 131 n., 137 n.; iv. 345.
Coulson, Rev. John, iii. 158, 159 n., 254, 254 n.
'Council of Trent,' History of,i. 76, 104. 'Counsellor Van,' a sharp-pointed rock
on the Wye, why so called, ii. 185 n. Counting, the good of, v. 80. Country amusements, iv. 370.
- gentlemen, ii. 341, 345, 389 n.; iv. 336; v. 43.
- life, iii. 47; iv. 28, 104, 108, 108 n., 162, 220, 369; v. 248.
Courage, iii. 214; iv. 121, 196, 280 n. Johnson's, iii. 173.
Court, attendants on a, described, i. 319. of Session in Scotland, iii. 95, 167 n. Courting the acquaintance of the great, i. 101, 101 n.; ii. 10.
Courtenay, John, esq. v. 211.
his Poetical Review' quoted, i. 33, 156, 199, 299, 334; iii. 111, 242 n. his description of the style and economy of Sir Joshua Reynolds's table, iii. 444. - his Poetical Review of Johnson's literary and moral Character,' v. 445. - biographical notice of, by Sir James Mackintosh, v. 445.
Courts of Germany, manners best learnt at, ii. 501.
– martial, iv. 344.
Coverley, Sir Roger De, iii. 246.
Cow, Boswell's skill in imitating the lowing of, iii. 92.
Cowardice, iv. 186; v. 227. Cowdray, the seat of the Lords Montague,
popular superstition respecting, v. 38. Cowley, Abraham, the poet, i. 237 n.; iii. 29 n., 41, 395; iv. 81.
Johnson's Life of, iv. 405.
Cowper, William, his translation of Ho- mer, iv. 194 n.
Coxcombs, i. 387; iv. 400.
Coxeter, Thomas, esq., i. 514; iv. 2.
some account of, i. 514 n.
Crabbe, Rev. George, his 'Village,' v. 54. some account of, v. 54 n.
Johnson's commendation of the Vil- lage,' v. 436.
Cradock, Joseph, esq., his anecdotes of Johnson, iii. 320, 403; iv. 135, 508. - sundry inaccuracies in his. Memoirs' pointed out, iv. 508–513 n.
- Alley,' iv. 107, 107 n.
Colonel, of Ballinagard, iv. 107 n.
Cromwell, Johnson's design of writing the Life of, v. 120.
Noble's Memoirs' of, v. 120 n.
'Cross readings,' Caleb Whitefoord's di- verting, v. 219.
Crouch, Mrs., v. 107 n.
Crousaz's Examen' of Pope's Essay on Man, i. 107, 132.
Crown, power of the, ii. 165.
influence of, in parliament, i. 375. 'Crudities,' Coriat's, ii. 170 n.
Cruikshanks, Mr., the surgeon, v. 101. Johnson's letters to, v. 125, 280. Cuchillen's well, ii. 479.
Cucumbers, ii. 515; iv. 345.
- his 'Choleric Man,' ii. 197 n.
- character of Sir Fretful Plagiary in- tended for him, ii. 197 n.
- his 'Odes,' iii. 408.
- his mode of study, iv. 408. his Walloons,' v. 27, 27 n. his conversation described, v. 301 n. anecdotes of Johnson by, v.301 n., 398. his Lines descriptive of Johnson's cha- racter, v. 405.
Cumming, Thomas, the quaker, ii. 331, 334, 454; iii. 234 n.; v. 92.
some account of, iii. 67 n.
Dalzel, Andrew, Greek professor at Edin- burgh, v. 301.
Damer, Hon. John, iv. 255.
some account of, iv. 255 n. Dance, Mr., the architect, ii. 152 n. Dancing, advocated by Johnson, ii. 76; iv. 450.
Dancing-master, Johnson's conversation with one, iv. 368. 'Dandy,' ii. 417. Danes, the, v. 129.
Danish colony at Leuchars, ii. 305, 305 n. fort, ii. 399.
D'Arblay, Madame, see Burney. Darius, shade of, iv. 348. Darteneuf, Charles, iii. 335.
some account of, iii. 335 n.
Darwin, Dr. Erasmus, mutual dislike be- tween Johnson and, iii. 125 n. Dashwood, Lady, iv. 284, 284 n. Dating letters, a laudable habit, iv. 305 n. Daughters, benefit of taking them early
into company, iv. 371.
Davies, Mr. Thomas, the actor and book- seller, character and anecdotes of, i. 399,404, 437, 476, 495 n., 496, 503; ii. 64, 65, 67, 93 n., 194, 242; iii. 113, 174, 214, 215, 217 n. 219, 251; iv. 75, 78, 103, 340, 345; v. 469.
Davies, Mr. Thomas, Churchill's sarcasm
on his acting, i. 400 n.
- his pretty wife,' i. 400 n., v. 111. Davis, Rev. Henry Edward, his 'Answer to Gibbon,' iv. 136.
Dawkins, Henry, esq. iv. 500, 501 n. Day-labourers, wages of, v. 56.
Dead, legal redress for libels on the cha- racter of, iii. 380.
Dead language, on writing verses in, iii. 246.
Deaf and Dumb, Mr. Broadwood's aca- demy for, iii. 94.
Deafness, Johnson's, iv. 200. Deane, Rev. Richard,
Life of Brutes,' ii. 54. Death, i. 154, 322, 333; ii. 92, 109, 156, 412, 420; iii. 10, 92, 519; iv. 2, 153, 169, 240; v. 27, 32, 106, 133, 151, 154, 165, 177, 197.
reflections on a violent, i. 322. Southwell's stanzas upon, iii. 143 n. - preparation for, iii. 10. Death-bed resentments, ii. 463.
repentance, Dr. Wishart on, ii. 476. Debates in Parliament, Johnson's share in them, i. 87, 121, 122, 127; v. 318. Debt, misery of being in, v. 29. Debtor, proverbial wretchedness of, v. 29. Debts, i. 337; iii. 491.
Decay of the mental faculties, iii. 367. 'Decline and Fall,' Gibbon's, iii. 335. Dedications, ii. 213, 512; iii. 477.
and Prefaces, by Johnson, and remarks on, i. 135, 151, 157, 243, 287, 305, 307, 343, 348, 356, 372, 476; ii. 21, 24, 26, 44, 193, 213, 512; iii. 477. Definition, ii. 282 n.
Definitions, i. 7 n., 60 n., 280, 280 Nog ii. 269 n., 282; iii. 81 n., iv. 99, 178, 186 N., 210, 214.
De Foe, Daniel, ii. 157; iv. 123.
his Robinson Crusoe,' iv. 123. invents the story of Mrs. Veal's ghost, ii. 157, 157 n.
Degeneracy of the human race disputed, ii. 205, 205 n.
De Groot, Isaac, a relative of Grotius, Johnson's kind interference in behalf of, iii. 487. Deist, ii. 8.
Delany, Dr., his Observations on Swift,' ii. 462; iv. 105, 406.
Delap, Rev. Dr., i. 514; iii. 519, 519 n. Delay, danger of, i. 323.
Delicacy, iv. 373, 375. Democritus, iv. 478 n.
'Demonax' of Lucian, curiously applicable
to Johnson, iv. 401 n.
Demosthenes, i. 122, 126 n.; ii. 199.
Dempster, George, esq., i. 418, 448, 455, 456 n.; iv. 160.
his character of Johnson's Journey to the Hebrides,' iii. 101, 178. Denbigh, iii. 136.
Dennis, John, his 'Critical Works' worth collecting, iii. 404.
Departed spirits, appearance of, i. 333, 414; iv. 467; v. 177. 'Depeditation,' ii. 361.
Depression of spirits, treatment of, i. 74 n. Derange,' v. 233.
Derby, china manufactory at, iv. 11. Derby, Rev. J., iii. 477.
curious anecdote of, iii. 477 n. Derrick, Samuel, esq., i. 95, 394,404, 467, 468; ii. 348, 464; iv. 239; v. 70, 111 n. some account of, i. 394 n.
his Letters,' ii. 348. Descriptions, seldom correspond with reali- ties, ii. 355, 372; v. 76. 'Deserted Village,' ii. 7, 224.
Desmoulins, Mrs., i. 35, 52; ii. 139; iv. 77, 77 m., 158, 231, 243, 251 n., 288, 333, 466; v. 115, 146.
Despotic governments, iv. 141. Devaynes, John, esq., v. 170. Devonshire, William Cavendish, third Duke of, iv. 38.
- his dogged veracity, iv. 248. Devotion, v. 107.
Dialogues of the Dead,' Lord Lyttle- ton's, iii. 335; iv. 427.
two, by Sir Joshua Reynolds, in imitation of Johnson's style of con- versation, iv. 169, 514, 514 n. Diary, Johnson's, ii. 161, 288.
the utility of keeping one, i. 448; ii. 204; iv. 83; v. 56. Dibdin, Mr. Charles, ii. 114. Dick, Sir Alexander, ii. 283; iii. 96, 491; v. 151, 155, 156, 156 n.
his letter to Johnson on the good effect produced in Scotland by his Journey,' iii. 466. 'Dictionnaire Portatif' of L'Avocat, re- commended, v. 224.
'Dictionary of the English Language,' Johnson's, i. 152, 156, 160, 162, 244, 246, 247, 248, 257, 263, 264, 269, 271, 277, 287, 314, 368, 456; iì. 133, 146, 192, 194, 196, 243, 282, 325, 361, 499; iii. 322, 477, 479, 526; iv. 210, 257, 279, 336, 538. first published, i. 277.
Wilkes's jeu d'esprit on, i. 284. Garrick's epigram on, i. 284.
Johnson's profits by, i. 288.
epitome of, i. 291.
felicity with which the examples are selected, v. 179.
- curious particulars as to the practical compilation of, v. 475.
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