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condemns them in the Rambler, iii. 23, n. 2. CARELESS, Mrs., Johnson's first love, ii. 459-461; mentioned, iv. 146-8, 378. _Careless Husband_. See CIBBER, Colley. CARELESSNESS, iv. 21. CARIBS, iii. 200, n. 4. _Carleton's, Captain, Memoirs_, iv. 333-4. CARLISLE, Boswell proposes to meet Johnson there, iii. 107; 'cathedral so near Auchinleck,' iii. 416-7; Percy made Dean, iii. 365; printer run out of parentheses, iii. 402, n. 1. CARLISLE, Law, Bishop of, i. 437, n. 2. CARLISLE, fifth Earl of, iv. 113, n. 5; _Poems_, iv. 113; _The Father's Revenge_, iv. 246-8. CARLISLE HOUSE, iv. 92, n. 5. CARLISLE OF LIMEKILNS, v. 316. CARLYLE, Dr. Alexander Blair, Robert, iii. 47, n. 3; Blair's, Hugh, conversation, v. 397, n. 3; Cardonnel, Commissioner, iii. 390, n. 1; clergy (English), at Harrogate, v. 252, n. 3; clergy (Scotch), and card-playing, v. 404, n. 1; Cullen's mimicry, ii. 154, n. 1; Culloden--London in an uproar of joy, v. 196, n. 3; dinners in London and Edinburgh, i. 103, n. 2; Dodd, Dr., iii. 139, n. 4; Douglas, Duchess of, v. 43, n. 4; Elibank, Lord, v. 386, n. 1; Elphinston's school, ii. 171, n. 2; Guthrie, W., i. 117, n. 2; Home patronised by Lord Bute, ii. 354, n. 4; _Douglas_, v. 362, n. 1; as an historian, iii. 162, n. 5; Hume, account of, v. 30, n. 1; opinion of _Ossian_, ii. 302, n. 2; Leechman's prosecution, v. 68, n. 4; liberality of leading clergymen, v. 21, n. 1; Lonsdale, Lord, v. 113, n. 1; Maclaurin, Professor, v. 49, n. 6; Macpherson, James, ii. 300, n. 1; Mansfield on Hume's style, i. 439, n. 2; Millar, Andrew, i. 287, n. 3; Poker Club, ii. 376, n. 1; Pretender, Young, v. 196, n. 2; Robertson and the claret, iii. 335; n. 4; conversation, v. 397, n. 3; romantic humour, iii. 335, n. 1; Smith, Adam, iv. 24, n. 2; study of English by the Scotch, i. 439, n. 2. CARLYLE, Thomas, Cromwell's speeches, i. 150, n. 2; Gough Square, visits, i. 188, n. 1; errors about Johnson, i. 58, n. 2, 78, n. 1, 113, n. 1, 328, n. 1; Hénault, quotes, ii. 383, n. 1; Johnson's god-daughter, subscribes for an annuity to, iv. 202, n. 1; _Novalis_, quotes, iii. 11, n. 1; Sandwich, Lord, and Basil Montague, iii. 383, n. 3; teacher's life, on a, i. 85, n. 2; walking to Edinburgh University, v. 301, n. 2; writing an effort, iv. 219, n. 1. CARMICHAEL, Miss, Johnson lodges her in his house, iii. 222; speaks of her as 'Poll,' iii. 368; describes her, iii. 461. CARNAN, Thomas, bookseller, iii. 100, n. 1. CAROLINE, QUEEN, Clarke's refusal of a bishopric, iii. 248, n. 2; Leibnitz, patronizes, v. 287; Savage, bounty to, i. 125, n. 4, 173, n. 3. CARPENTER, anecdote of a, iv. 116. CARRE, Rev. Mr., v. 27-8. CARRUTHERS, Robert, Highland emigration, v. 150, n. 3. _Carstares' State Papers_, v. 227, n. 4. CARTE, Thomas, believed in the 'regal touch,' i. 42; _History of England_, i. 42; ii. 344; iv. 311; _Life of Ormond_, v. 296. CARTER, Rev. Dr., i. 122, n. 4. CARTER, Miss Elizabeth (Mrs.), account of her, i. 122, n. 4; age, lived to a great, iv. 275, n. 3; alarum, her, iii. 168; _Amelia_, praises, iii. 43, n. 2; Burney, Miss, described by, iv. 275, n. 1; her _Correspondence_, i. 203, n. 5; Crousaz's _Examen_, translates, i. 138; Garrick, Mrs., dines with, iv. 96-9; Greek and pudding-making, i. 122, n. 4; Johnson advises her to translate _Boethius_, i. 139; writes an epigram to her, i. 122, 140; English verses, ib.; a letter, i. 122, n. 4; praises her, iv. 275; known as 'the learned,' iv. 246, n. 6; _Ode to Melancholy_, i. 122, n. 4; _Rambler, contributes to the, i. 203; criticises it, i. 208, n. 3; mentioned, i. 242. CARTER,--, a riding-school master, ii. 424, n. 1. CARTERET, John, Lord, afterwards Earl Granville, i. 507, 509. _Carteret_, a dactyl, iv. 3. CARTHAGE, iv. 196. CARTHAGENA, v. 386. CARTHUSIAN CONVENT. See MONASTERY. CASCADES, v. 429, n. 4, 442. CASHIOBURY, i. 381, n. 1. CASIMIR'S _Ode to Pope Urban_, i. 13, n. 2. CASTES OF THE HINDOOS, iv. 12, n. 2, 88. CASTIGLIONE, author of _Il Corteggiano_, v. 276. CASTIGLIONE, Prince Gonzaga di, iii. 411, n. 1. CASTLE, shut up in one, ii. 100. CASUISTRY, i. 254. CATALOGUE of Johnson's _Works_, i. 16. CATALOGUES, why we look at them, ii. 365. CATCOT, George, iii. 50-1. CATHCART, Lord, ii. 413; iii. 346. CATHEDRALS of England, most seen by Johnson, iii. 107, 456; neglected, v. 114, n. 1. CATHERINE II, Empress of Russia, Boswell's eulogium on her, iii. 134, n. 1; engages English tutors, iv. 277, n. 1; _Evelina_, has drawings made from, iv. 277, n. 1; Houghton Collection, buys the, iv. 334, n. 6; _Rambler_, orders a translation of the, iv. 277; sends Reynolds a snuff-box, iii. 370. _Catholicon_, ii. 399. CATILINE, i. 32. CATO the Censor, iv. 79. CATOR, John, iv. 313, 340, n. 3. CATS, shooting, iv. 197. CATULLUS, iv. 180. CAULFIELD, Miss, iii. 100. CAVE, Edward, account of him, i. 113, n. 1; Abridgment of Trapp's _Sermons_, publishes an, i. 140, n. 5; attacked by rivals, i. 113, n. 3; Birch, Dr., Letters to, i. 139, 150, 151, 153; Boyse's verses to him, iv. 441; coach, sets up a, i. 152, n. 1; ii. 226, n. 2; death and effects, i. 256, ns. 1 and 2; _Debates_, publishes the, i. 115-8, 136, 150-2, 501-12; reports them, i. 503; descendants, collateral, i. 90, n. 4; examined before House of Lords, i. 111, n. 3, 501; (_Sylvanus Urban_), _Gentleman's Magazine_, projects the, i. 90, 111; attends closely to its sale, iii. 322; ghost, saw a, ii. 178, 182; indecent books, sells, i. 112, n. 2; Johnson 'Cave's Oracle,' i. 140, n. 5; first employer, i. 103; _Life of Savage_, buys the copyright of, i. 165, n. 1; letters from: see JOHNSON, Letters; money account with, i. 135; _Ode_ to him, i. 113; _Rambler_, proprietor of, i. 203, n. 6, 208, n. 3, 209, n. 1; and the screen, i. 163, n. 1; writes his _Life_, i. 256; 'penurious paymaster,' i. 121, n. 2; iv. 409; prizes for verses, offers, i. 91, n. 2, 136; treatment of his readers, i. 157, n. 4; mentioned, i. 122, n. 4, 135, 176, n. 2, 242. CAVE, Edward, Jun., i. 111, n. 3. CAVE, Miss, i. 90, n. 4. CAVERSHAM, ii. 258, n. 3. CAWSTON, ----, iv. 418. CAXTON, William, iii. 254. CECIL, Colonel, ii. 183. _Cecilia_. See Miss BURNEY. CEDED ISLANDS, money arising from the, ii. 353, n. 4. CELIBACY, cheerless, ii. 128. CELSUS, iii. 152, n. 2. CELTS, descended from the Scythians, v. 224. CENSURE, ecclesiastical, iii. 59. _Cento_, ii. 96, n. 1. CERTAINTIES, small, the bane of men of talents, ii. 323. CERVANTES, Don Quixote's death, ii. 370: see DON QUIXOTE; praised _Il Palmerino d' Inghilterra_, iii. 2 'CHAIR OF VERITY,' iii. 58, n. 3. CHALMERS, Alexander, edits the _Spectator_, ii. 212, n. 1; mentioned, ii. 136, n. 3; iii. 230, n. 5. CHALMERS, George, edits Johnson's _Debates_, i. 152, n. 2. 'CHAM OF LITERATURE,' i. 348. CHAMBERLAIN, Lord, Johnson's application to the, iii. 34, n. 4. CHAMBERLAYNE, Edward, iv. 98. CHAMBERLAYNE, Rev. Mr., iv. 288. CHAMBERS, Catherine, i. 513-6; death, ii. 43. CHAMBERS, Ephraim, _Dictionary of Arts and Sciences_, i. 138, 219; new edition, ii. 203, n. 3; epitaph, i. 219, n. 1, 498, n. 2; Johnson takes his style as a model, i. 218. CHAMBERS, Sir Robert, dissenters and snails, ii. 268, n. 2; Johnson's companion to Newcastle, ii. 264; v. 16, 20; learnt law from him, iii. 22; letter to him, i. 274; prescribes remedies to, ii. 260; recommends him to Warren Hastings, iv. 68-9; visits him, ii. 25, 46; judge in India, appointed, ii. 264; threatened with revocation, ib., n. i; Langton's will, makes, ii. 261; Lincoln College, Oxford, member of, i. 274; Literary Club, member of the, i. 478, n. 2, 479; married, ii. 274; Principal of New Inn Hall, ii. 46, 268, n. 2; portrait in University College, ii. 25, n. 2; at Streatham, iv. 158, n. 1; professor in the imaginary college, v. 109; proud or negligent, ii. 272; Warton, Dr., recommends him to W. G. Hamilton, i. 519; mentioned, i. 274, 336, 357, 370; ii. 265; iv. 344; v. 66. CHAMBERS, Dr. Robert, _Traditions of Edinburgh_--Boyd's Inn, v. 21, n. 2; Edinburgh, a new face in the streets, v. 39, n. 3; noble families in the old town, v. 43, n. 4; Hailes, Lord, i. 432, _n_. 3; _Hardyknute_, ii. 91, n. 2; James's Court, v. 22, n. 2; Kames, Lord, ii. 200, n. 1; Macdonald's, Flora, virulence, v. 185, n. 4; Monboddo, Lord, ii. 74, n. 1. CHAMBERS, Sir William, _Dissertation on Oriental Gardening_, iv. 60, n. 7; v. 186; ridiculed in _The Heroic Epistle, ib.; Johnson writes an introduction to his _Chinese Architecture_, iv. 188; Somerset House, architect of, iv. 187, n. 4; _Treatise on Civil Architecture_, iv. 187, n. 4. CHAMIER, Andrew, account of him, i. 478; Goldsmith, his estimate of, iii. 252-3; Johnson consults him in Dodd's case, iii. 121; gets his interest for Mr. Welch, iii. 217; visits him, iii. 398, n. 1; professor in the imaginary college, v. 109; signs the Round-Robin, iii. 83. CHAMPION, Sir G., iii. 459. _Champion, The_, i. 169. CHANCELLORS, Lord High, how chosen, ii. 157. CHANCES, iv. 330. _Chances, The_, ii. 233, n. 4. CHANDLER, Dr., ii. 445, n. 1. CHANGE, silver, iv. 191. CHANTILLY, ii. 400. CHAPEL-HOUSE, ii. 451. CHAPLAINS, ii. 96. CHAPONE, Mrs., account of her, iv. 246, n. 6; _Correspondence_, her, i. 203, n. 4; Johnson, letter from, iv. 247; his meeting with the Abbé Raynal, iv. 434; his views on natural depravity, v. 211, n. 3; _Rambler_, contributes to the, i. 203; Williams, Mrs., account of, i. 232, n. 1. CHARACTER, a most complete one, ii. 402; argument, its weight in an, ii. 443; v. 29, n. 5; delineation in the _Anabasis_, iv. 31; expectation of uniformity, iii. 282, n. 2; Johnson saw a great variety, iii. 20; his sketches of them, ib.; men not bound to reveal their children's character, iii. 18; not to be tried by one particular, iii. 238; must not be lessened, v. 247; nature and manners, ii. 48; as to this world not hurt by vice, iii. 342, 349. CHARADE, a, iv. 195. CHARITABLE ESTABLISHMENT IN WALES, a, iii. 255. CHARITY. See ALMSGIVING. CHARLEMONT, first Earl of, Beauclerk's character, draws, i. 249, n. 1; letters to him, ii. 192; Hume's French, i. 439, n. 2; Hume and Mrs. Mallet, ii. 8, n. 4; Literary Club, member of the, i. 479; Johnson and Vestris, iv. 79; professor in the imaginary college, v. 108; story of the Pyramids, iii. 352, 449, 458; mentioned, ii. 235, 274, n. 3; iv. 78. CHARLES I, anniversary of his death, ii. 152, n. 1; kept by Boswell with old port and solemn talk, iii. 371; birth-place, v. 399; concessions to parliament, v. 340; corn, price of, in his reign, iii. 232, n. 1; Johnson and Lord Auchinleck dispute about him, v. 382, n. 2; 'murder,' his, unpopular, ii. 370; political principles in his time, ii. 369; saying about lawyers, ii. 214; mentioned, i. 194, n. 2, 466; ii. 170, n. 2; v. 204, 346, 406. CHARLES II, atheist and bigot, iv. 194, n. 1; betrayed and sold the nation, ii. 342, n. 2; corn, price of, in his reign, iii. 232, n. 1; descendants, his, Beauclerk, i. 248, n. 2; Commissioner Cardonnel, iii. 390, n. 1; Charles Fox, iv. 292, n. 2; Duke of York and Catharine Sedley, v. 49; France, took money from, ii. 342; Heale, at, iv. 234, n. 1; Hume's partiality for him, ii. 341, n. 2; Johnson's partiality for him, i. 248; ii. 341; iv. 292, n. 2; 'lenity,' his, iv. 41; Lewis XIV, might have been as absolute as, ii. 370; manners, ii. 41; political principles in his time, ii. 369; social, i. 442; story-telling, excelled in, iii. 390, n. 1; mentioned, ii. 437, n 2; v. 357, n. 3. CHARLES III (the Young Pretender), ii. 253. CHARLES EDWARD, Prince. See PRETENDER. CHARLES V, Emperor, plays at his own funeral, iii. 247. CHARLES X, of France, ii. 401, n. 4. CHARLES XII, of Sweden, compared with Socrates, iii. 265; dressed plainly, ii. 475; Johnson's _Vanity of Human Wishes_, i. 195. _Charles of Sweden_, i. 153. CHARLOTTE, Queen, account of Boswell, i. 5, n. 1; Garrick's compliment to her, ii. 233; 'a lady of experience,' ii. 142; Queen's House, ii. 33, n. 3; Sunday knotting, iii. 242, n. 3; mentioned, i. 383; ii. 290. _Charmer, The_, v. 313. CHARTER-HOUSE, iii. 124, 441. CHARTER-HOUSE SCHOOL, iii. 222. CHARTRES, Colonel, ii. 211, n. 4. CHASTITY, one deviation from it ruins a woman, ii. 56; property depends on it, ii. 457; v. 209. CHATHAM, William Pitt, Earl of, Boswell, correspondence with, ii. 13, n. 3, 59, n. 1; _Capability_ Brown, account of, iii. 400, n. 2; Cardross, Lord, offers a post to, ii. 177; Cumming the Quaker's account of him, v. 98, n. 1; Dictator, iii. 356; excisemen, attacks, i. 294, n. 9; Garrick, notes to, ii. 227; Highland regiments, raises, iii. 198; v. 150; House of Commons, last speech in the, ii. 16, n. 2; Johnson attacks him, ii. 134, n. 4, 314; criticises his oratory, iv. 317; writes a speech in his name, i. 504; Loudoun, Lord, recalls, v. 372, n. 3; merchants and tradesmen, praises honest, v. 327, n. 4; 'meteor,' i. 131; v. 339; oratory, his, i. 152; Oxford in 1754, at, i. 171, n. 1; 'Ptit,' figures in the _Debates_ as, i. 502; public and private schools, on, iii. 12, n. 1; Scotch Militia bill, acquiesces in the, ii. 431, n. 1; Shelburne joins his ministry, iii. 36, n. 1; son, his, superior to him, iv. 219,_ n._ 3; Trecothick, praises, iii. 76,_ n._ 2; Walpole, distinguished from, ii. 196; war, his glorious, ii. 126; Whigs and Tories, distinguishes, i. 431, n. 1; 'woollen, buried in,' ii. 453, n. 2; mentioned, iii. 201, n. 3. CHATSWORTH, Boswell visits it, iii. 208; Johnson visits it in 1774, v. 429; in 1784, iv. 357, 367; present at a 'public dinner,' ib., n. 3. CHATTERTON, Thomas, money gained by Beckford's death, iii. 201, n. 3; _Rowley's Poetry,_ iii. 50; pretended discovery, ib., n. 1; Johnson's admiration, iii. 51; Goldsmith's belief, ib., n. 2; Walpole's disbelief, ib.; quarrel about it between Goldsmith and Percy, iii. 276, n. 2; 'wild adherence to him,' iv. 141. CHAUCER, took much from the Italians, iii. 254. _Chaucer, Life of,_ i. 306. CHEAP, Captain, i. 117, n. 2. CHELSEA, ii. 169, n. 1. CHELSEA COLLEGE, ii. 64. CHEMISTRY, Johnson's love of it, i. 140, 436; ii. 155; 'the new kinds of air,' iv. 237; Priestley's discoveries, 238. CHENEY WALK, ii. 99, n. 5. CHEROKEES, v. 248. CHESELDEN, William, iii. 152,_ n._ 3. CHESTER, Boswell visits it, iii. 411-15; Johnson and the Thrales, v. 435; Michael Johnson attends the fair, ib.; passage thence to Ireland, i. 105. CHESTERFIELD, fourth Earl of, active sports and idleness, i. 48, n. 1; Addison and Leandro Alberti, ii. 346, n. 7; appeal to people in high life, how to be made, i. 257, n. 1; Bolingbroke's ready knowledge, ii. 256, n. 3; 'But stoops to conquer,' quotes, ii. 205, n. 4; conversation and knowledge, iv. 332; dedications, the _plastron_ of, i. 183, n. 3; dignified but insolent, iv. 174; dissembling anger, i. 265, n. 1; duplicity, his, i. 264-5; Eliot, Mr., praises, iv. 334, n. 5; epigram written with his diamond, iv. 102, n. 4; exquisitely elegant, iv. 332; Faulkner, George, account of, v. 44, n. 2; friend, had no, iii. 387; flogging, on, i. 46, n. 2; general reflections, on, iv. 313, n. 2; graces and wickedness, on uniting the, ii. 340; _great_, pronunciation of, ii. 161; _Letters_, 'Hottentot, a respectable,' i. 266; v. 103, n. 2; Ireland's sufferings from a drunken gentry, v. 250, n. 1: Johnson addresses to him the Plan, i. 183-5; ii. 1, n. 2; 35, n. 5; his MS. notes on it, i. 185, n. 2; _Dictionary_, writes in _The World_ on, i. 257-60; flatters with a view to a _Dedication, i. 257; letter to him, i. 260-5, 284, n. 3; iv. 192, n. 2; v. 130, n. 3; Boswell begs for a copy of it, iii. 418, 420; gets it, iv. 128; neglects, i. 256-265; presents ten pounds to, i. 261, n. 3; speeches ascribed to him, iii. 351; laughter low and unbecoming, declares, ii. 378, n. 2; letter to his son at Rome, iv. 78, n. 1; _Letters_, Johnson's description of them, i. 266; Boswell's, ib., n. 2; Lord Eliot's, iv. 333; literary property in them contested, i. 266; pretty book, might be made a, iii. 53; sale, ii. 329; mentioned, iii. 54; _Miscellaneous Works_, published in 1777, iii. 108, n. 2; old and ill, i. 262, n. 1; Parisians not learned, declares the, i. 454, n. 3; patron of bad authors, iv, 331, n. 1; position, great, ii. 329; pride, i. 265; _respectable_, use of the term, iii. 241, n. 2; Richardson's novels, ii. 174, n. 2; Robinson, Sir T., epigram on, i. 434, n. 3; Secretary of State, iv. 333, n. 2; speeches composed by Johnson, i. 505; study of eloquence, on the, iv. 184, n. 1; _transpire_, iii. 343, n. 2; Tyrawley, Lord, criticism on, ii. 211; 'wit among Lords,' i. 266; wit, his, ii. 211; world, on the judgment of the, i. 200, n. 2; mentioned, i. 151; iv. 78. CHESTERFIELD, fifth Earl of, Dodd, Dr., forges his name, iii. 140. CHEVALIER, the, v. 140, n. 3. _Chevalier's Muster Roll_, v. 142, n. 2. CHEYNE, Dr. George, account of his diet, iii. 27, n. 1; on bleeding, iii. 152, n. 3; _English Malady_, i. 65; iii. 27, 87; v. 210; rule of conduct, v. 154. _Cheynel, Life of_, i. 228; ii. 187, n. 2. v. 48. CHICHESTER, iv. 160. CHIEFS. See HIGHLANDS. CHIESLEY OF DALRY, v. 227, n. 4. CHILDHOOD, companions of one's, iii. 131. CHILD, ----, of Southwark, i. 491, n. 1. CHILDREN, business men care little for them, iii. 29; company, should not be brought into, iii. 28, 128; Gay's writings for them, ii. 408, n. 3; Johnson on books for them, iv. 8, n. 3, 16; library, to be turned loose in a, iv. 21; management of them, i. 46, n. 3; method of rearing them, ii. 101; natural aptitudes, v. 211, 214; prematurely wise, ii. 408. CHINA, dog-butchers, ii. 232; mortality on the voyage thither, i. 348, n. 3; wall of, iii. 269, 457; people 'perfectly polite,' i. 89; barbarians, iii. 339; plantations, iv. 60. _China_, Du Halde's _Description of_. See Du HALDE. CHINA-FANCY, iii. 163, n. 1. CHINA-MANUFACTORY, iii. 163. _Chinese Architecture_. See CHAMBERS, Sir W. _Chinese Stories_, i. 136. CHISWICK, iv. 168, n. 1. 'CHOICE OF DIFFICULTIES,' v. 146. CHOISI, Abbé, iii. 336. CHOLMONDELEY, G. J., iv. 345. CHOLMONDELEY, Mrs., account of her, iii. 318, n. 3; a very airy lady, v. 248; an affected gentleman, iii. 261; Johnson takes her hand, iii. 318, n. 3; mentioned, ii. 125; iii. 256. CHRIST'S HOSPITAL, ii. 286. CHRIST'S satisfaction, iv. 124; v. 88. CHRISTIAN, Rev. Mr., ii. 52. _Christian Hero_, ii. 448. _Christian Philosopher and Politician_, i. 202, n. 1. CHRISTIANITY, differences political rather than religious, i. 405; chiefly in forms, ii. 150; iii. 188; evidences for it, i. 398, 405, 428, 444,454; ii. 8, 14; iii. 188, 316; v. 47, 340; revelation of immortality its great article, iii. 188; its 'wilds,' iii. 313. CHRISTIE, James, the auctioneer, iv. 402, n. 2. CHRYSOSTOM, v. 446. CHURCH, The, possesses the right of censure, iii. 59-62, 91, n. 3. 'CHURCH AND KING,' iv. 29, 296. CHURCH OF ENGLAND, in Charles II's reign, ii. 341; 'Churchmen will not be Catholics,' iv. 29, n. 1; Convocation denied it, i. 464; discipline and Convocation, iv. 177; example of attendance at the services, ii. 173; House of Hanover, all against the, v. 271; manner of reading the service, iii. 436; neglected state of the buildings, v. 41, n. 3; of the cathedrals, 114, n. 1; observance of days, ii. 458; parishes neglected, iii. 437; patronage, ii. 242-6; revenues, iii. 138; theory and practice, iii. 138. CHURCH OF ROME. See ROMAN CATHOLICS. CHURCH OF SCOTLAND. See under SCOTLAND. CHURCHILL, Charles, account of the publication of his poems, i. 419, n. 3; profits, ib. n. 5; 'blotting,' hatred of, i. 419, n. 5; Boswell criticises his poetry, i. 419; 'brains not excised,' v. 51; Cowper's high estimate of his poetry, i. 419, n. 4; Davies and his wife, i. 391, n. 2, 484; iii. 223, 249; death, his, i. 395, n. 2, 419, n. 3; Dodsley's _Cleane_, i. 326, n. 3; Flexney, his publisher, ii. 113, n. 2; Francklin, Dr., iv. 34, n. 1; 'gainst fools be guarded,' v. 217, n. 1; _Gotham_, i. 420, n. 1; Guthrie, William, i. 118, n. 1; Hill, Sir John, ii. 38, n. 2; Holland the actor, iv. 7, n. 5; Johnson, attacks, about _Shakespeare_, i. 319-20, 419; about the Cock-Lane Ghost, i. 406; about his strong terms, iii. 1, n. 2; despises his poetry, i. 418; Lloyd in the Fleet-prison, i. 395, n. 2; Norton, Sir Fletcher, ii. 472, n. 2; Ogilvie's poetry, i. 423, n. 1; _Prophecy of Famine_, i. 373, n. 1, 420; iii. 77, n. 1; _Gotham_, Europe's treatment of savages, iii. 204, n. 1; straw in Bedlam, ii. 374, n. 2; 'strolling tribe,' i. 168, n. 1; Warburton, Bishop, iv. 49, n. 1; v. 81, n. 2; Whitehead, Paul, i. 125; 'With wits a fool, with fools a wit,' i. 266, n. 1. CHURTON, Rev. Ralph, ii. 258, n. 3; iv. 212, n. 4, 300, n. 2. CIBBER, Colley, _Apology_, ii. 92; iii. 72; Goldsmith praises it, ib., n. 2; _Birth-day Odes_, i. 149, n. 3, 401-2; ii. 92; iii. 72, 184; _Careless Husband_, revised by Mrs. Brett, i. 174, n. 2; origin of the story, ib.; no doubt written by Cibber, ii. 340; praised by Pope and H. Walpole, iii. 72, n. 4; Comedies, merit in his, ii. 340; iii. 72; Chesterfield, and Johnson, anecdote about, i. 256; conversation, his, ii. 92, 340; iii. 72; Dryden, recollections of, iii. 71; Fenton, insulted, i. 102, n. 2; genteel ladies, his, ii. 340; _Hob or The Country Wake_, ii. 465, n. 1; ignorance, iii. 72, n. 1; iv. 243; impudence, i. 154, n. 2; ii. 340, n. 3; Johnson's epigram on him, i. 149; v. 348, 350, 404; shows one of his _Odes_ to, ii. 92; mode of arguing: see JOHNSON, arguing; manager of Drury Lane, v. 244, n. 2; _Musa Cibberi_, iv. 3, n. 1; _Non-juror, The, _ii. 321; poet-laureate, i. 401, n. 1; _Provoked Husband_, ii. 48; iv. 284, n. 2; Richard III, version of, iii. 73, n. 3; Richardson's respect for him, ii. 93; iii. 184; vanity, iii. 264; Walpole praises his character, i. 401, n. 1; his _Apology_, iii. 72, n. 4; and his acting, iv. 243, n. 6; Whig, violent, iii. 30, n. 1. CIBBER, Theophilus, edits the _Lives of the Poets,_ i. 187; iii. 29-31, 117; death, iii. 30, n. 1. CIBBER, Mrs. (wife of Theophilus), account of her, v. 126, n. 5; acted in Irene, i. 197; mentioned, ii. 92. CICERO, Burke not like him, v. 213-4; Chesterfield likened to him, iii. 351; image of Virtue, ii. 15, n. 2, 443; quotations from _Cato Major_, iii. 438, n. 2; iv. 374, n. 2; _Ep. ad Att._, iv. 379, n. 2; _Ep. ad Fam_., iv. 424, n. 1; _Tuscul. Quaest_., ii. 107, n. 1. CIRCULATING LIBRARIES, i. 102, n. 2; ii. 36, n. 1. CITY, a, its solitude, iii. 379, n. 2. CITY OF LICHFIELD, a county, i. 36, n. 4. CITY OF LONDON. See LONDON. CITY-POET, iii. 75. CIVIL LAW, i. 134. CIVILISED LIFE. See SAVAGES, and SOCIETY. _Civility_, ii. 155; iii. 77. _Civilisation_, ii. 155. CLANRANALD, ii. 309; Allan of Clanranald, v. 290. CLAPP, Mrs., ii. 63, 115-6. CLARE, Lord, friendship with Goldsmith, ii. 136; iii. 311. CLARENDON, first Earl of, _History of the Rebellion_, its authenticity, i. 294, n. 9; characters trustworthy, ii. 79; character of Falkland, iv. 428, n. 2; compared with Hume and Robertson, v. 57, n. 3; recommended by Johnson, iv. 311; style and matter, iii. 257-8; Villiers's ghost, iii. 351; University of Oxford and his heirs, ii. 424. CLARENDON PRESS, Johnson's letter on its management, ii. 424, 441. CLARET, for boys, in. 381; iv. 79; gives the dropsy before drunkenness, v. 248-9. _Clarissa. See_ RICHARDSON, S. CLARK, Alderman Richard, member of the Essex Head Club, iv. 258, 438; Johnson, letter from, iv. 258. CLARKE, Rev. Dr. Samuel, Christian evidences, i. 398; free-will, ii. 104; _Homer_, edition of, ii. 129; Johnson's _Dictionary_, not quoted in, i. 189, n. 1; iv. 416, n. 2; Leibnitz, controversy with, v. 287; learning, iv. 21; studied hard, i. 71; literary character, i. 3, _n. _2; orthodox, not, iii. 248; v. 288; Queen Caroline wished to make him a bishop, iii. 248, n. 2; _Sermons_, ii. 263, 476; iii. 248; recommended by Johnson on his death-bed, iv. 416; unbending himself, fond of, i. 3. CLARKE, Sir T., i. 45, n. 4. CLAUDIAN, ii. 315. CLAVIUS, ii. 444. CLAXTON, Mr., ii. 247. CLEMENT, William, Fellow of Trinity College, Dublin, i. 489. CLENARDUS, iv. 20. _Cleone. See _DODSLEY. _Cleonice_, ii. 289,_ n._ 3. CLERGYMAN, a, at Bath, iv. 149; Johnson's letter to him, iv. 150; extraordinary character, an, iv. 296, n. 3; hopeless ignorance of one, iv. 33, n. 3; one rebuked by Johnson, iv. 19; a young clergyman, Johnson's letter to, iii. 436. CLERGYMEN, can be but half a beau, iv. 76; _Court_-party, of the, v. 255, n. 5; decorum required in them, iv. 76; duties, i. 320; elocution, taught, iv. 206; English compared with Scotch, v. 251-3, 381; Harrogate, at, v. 252, _n. 3_; holy artifices, iii. 438; learning, iv. 13; library fit for one, v. 121; life, their, i. 320, 476; iii. 304; men of the world, aping, iv. 76; popular election, ii. 149; preaching: _see _PREACHING; sinners in general, ii. 172. CLERK, Sir Philip Jennings, account of him, iv. 80; argument with Johnson, iv. 81. CLERMONT, Lady, iii. 425. CLIENTS. See LAW. CLIMATE, happiness not affected by it, ii. 195. CLINABS, i. 502, 512. CLINTON, Sir Henry, iv. 140, n. 2. CLITHEROE, iv. 162. CLIVE, Lord, astonished at his own moderation, iii. 401, n. 1; character by Dr. Robertson, iii. 334, 350; his chest full of gold, iii. 401; destroyed himself, iii. 334, 350. CLIVE, Mrs., Johnson describes her acting, iv. 243; v. 126; and Walpole, H., iv. 243, n. 6; robbed by highwaymen, iii. 239, n. 1; 'understands what you say,' iv. 7. CLOTHES._ See_ DRESS. CLOUGH, Arthur, v. 149, n. 1. CLOUGH, Sir Richard, v. 436. CLOW, Professor, v. 369, n. 2. _Clubable_, iv. 254, n. 2. CLUBS: Almack's, iii. 23, n. 1; Arthur's, v. 84, n. 1; Boar's Head, v. 247; British Coffee-house, ii. 195; iv. 179, n. 1; Brookes's, ii. 292,_ n._ 4; iv. 279, n. 2, 358, n. 1; _City Club_ at the Queen's Arms, iv. 87; Cocoa-tree Club, v. 386, n. 1; Essex Head, account of its foundation and members, iv. 253-5,436-8; Boswell and Johnson at a meeting, iv. 275; Johnson attacked with illness there, iv. 259; mentioned, iv. 354, 359, 360; Eumelian, iv. 394; Gaming Club, iii. 23; Ivy Lane, account of it, i. 190, 191, n. 5, 478, n. 2; Lennox, Mrs., supper in honour of, i. 103, n. 3, 255, n. 1; old members meet in 1783, iv. 253, 435-6; Johnson's definition of a club, iv. 254, n. 5; Literary Club, account of it, i. 477-81; v. 109; attendance expected, ii. 273; attendances in 1766, ii. 17, 201; Althorpe, Lord, iii. 424; Banks, Sir Joseph, iii. 365; Beauclerk, described by, ii. 192, n. 2; loss by his death, iii. 424; black-ball, exclusion by a single, iii. 116; books, some of the members talk from, v. 378,_ n._4; Boswell's election: See BOSWELL, Literary Club; Boswell's account of meetings at which he was present, his introduction, ii. 240; Johnson's apology to Goldsmith, ii. 255; talk of second-sight and Swift, ii. 318; Mrs. Abington's benefit, ii. 330; _Travels, Ossian_, the Black Bear, and patriotism, ii. 345; speakers distinguished by initials, iii. 230; Johnson's last dinner, iv. 326; Boswell's reports of meetings generally brief, ii. 242, n. 1, 345, n. 5; Burke's company lost to it, ii. 16; Bunbury elected, ii. 274; Camden Lord, black-balled, iii. 311, n. 2; day and hour of meeting, i. 478, 479; ii. 20, n. 1, 330, n. 1;