_ 448

CHATTERTON, his balance-sheet on the Lord Mayor's death, _n._ 25

CHURCHILL'S satire on Warburton, 240, 242, 243, 246

CHURCHYARD, Thomas, an unhappy poet, describes his patrons, 26
his pathetic description of his wretched old age, _ib._

CIBBER, his easy good-nature, 306
his reasonable defence of himself, _n._ 305-307
his "Essay on Cicero," _n._ 306
apology for his Life, 307
attacks on himself, 305, 308
unjustly degraded, 312

CLARENDON, Lord, his prejudice against May, 434
his opinion of Hobbes's philosophy, _n._ 438

CLERGY fight in the great civil wars, _n._ 422

CLELAND, biographical note on, 282

CLEVELAND'S character of a journal-maker, 416

COLE, Rev. William, his character, 90
his melancholy confession on his lengthened literary labours,
92
his anxiety how best to dispose of his collections, 93

COLLINS, Arthur, historian of the Peerage, 85

COLLINS, Wm., the poet, quits the university suddenly with romantic
hopes of becoming an author, 172
publishes his "Odes" without success, and afterwards indignantly
burns the edition, 180
defended from some reproaches of irresolution, made by Johnson,
181
anecdote of his life in the metropolis, 182
anecdotes of, when under the influence of a disordered intellect,
183
his monument described, 184
two sonnets descriptive of Collins, 185
his poetical character defended, 186

CONTEMPORARIES, how they seek to level genius, 206

COOPER, author of "Life of Socrates," attacked by Warburton, _n._
272

COOPER, Bishop, attacked by Mar-Prelates, _n._ 513, 514

COPYRIGHTS, Lintot's payments for, 328-333

CORBET, his humorous introduction to Ben Jonson, _n._ 475

COTGRAVE, Randle, falls blind in the labour of his "Dictionary",
73

COURT of Charles II. satirised by Marvell, 393
its characteristics, 414

COWEL incurs by his curious work "The Interpreter" the censure of
the King and the Commons on opposite principles, 193

COWLEY, original letter from, _n._ 36
his essays form a part of his confessions, 37
describes his feelings at court, _ib._
his melancholy attributed to his "Ode to Brutus," by which he
incurred the disgrace of the court, 40
his remarkable lamentation for having written poetry, 41
his Epitaph composed by himself, 42

CRITIC, poetica