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 ofBoswell, 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. 389CREEDS, 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 valleypraised, 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 tothe 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;