40;
Johnson's advice, iii. 437; v. 66-8;
man writing from his own mind, ii. 344;
pleasure, not a, iv. 219, n. 1;
practised early, to be, iv. 12;
setting oneself doggedly to it, v. 40, 110.
See JOHNSON, Composition.
_Compositor_, iv. 321, n. 3.
COMPTON, Bishop of London, iii. 445, 447.
_Comus_, Johnson's Prologue to, i. 227.
CONCANEN, Matthew, v. 92, n. 4.
CONCEIT OF PARTS, iii. 316.
_Conceits_, i. 179.
_Concoction_, of a play, iii. 259.
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,