312; anecdotes of Sir A. Macdonald, v. 315; his house in Mull, v. 316; deserves a statue, v. 327; his father's deputy, v. 329; 'a noble animal', v. 330; death, ii. 287-8, 406; v. 331; mentioned, v. 95, 267, 341. COLCHESTER, i. 466; iv. 15, n. 5. COLDS, catching, ii. 51, 150; v. 278. COLE, Henry, iv. 402, n. 2. COLEBROOKE, Sir G., ii. 222, n. 3. COLISEUM, ii. 106. COLLECTIONS, the desire of augmenting, iv. 105. COLLEGE OF PHYSICIANS, ii. 297. COLLEGE TUTOR, an old, advice to his pupils, ii. 237. COLLEGES. See OXFORD. COLLIER, Jeremy, censures actors, i. 167, n.. 2; 'fought without a rival,' iv. 286, n. 3. COLLINS, Anthony, iii. 363, n. 3. COLLINS, William, affected the obsolete, iii. 159, n. 2; Johnson's affection for him, i. 276, 383, n. 1; Life by Johnson, i. 382; madness, his, i. 65, n. 3, 276, 277, 383; Poems, Glasgow edition, ii. 380. COLLOQUIAL BARBARISMS, iii. 196. 'COLLYER, Joel', i. 315. COLMAN, George, the elder, Boswell's belief in second sight, mocks, ii. 318; Connoisseur, starts the, i. 420, n. 3; ii. 334, n. 3; Foote's patent, buys, iii. 97; Good Natured Man, brings out the, iii. 320; Jealous Wife, The, i. 364, n. 1; Johnson, imitation of, iv. 387-8; Literary Club, member of the, i. 478, n. 2, 479; Odes to Obscurity, ii. 334; professor in the imaginary college, v. 108; Prose on Several Occasions, iv. 387; Round-Robin, signed the, iii. 83; Shakespeare's Latin, iv. 18; She Stoops to Conquer, brings out, ii. 208, n.. 5; 'Sir, if you don't lie you're a rascal,' iv. 10; Student, contributes to the, i. 209; Terence, translation of, iv. 18; Westminster School, at, i. 395, n. 2. COLMAN, George, the son, Aberdeen, a student at, v. 85, n. 2; made a freeman of the city, v. 90, n. 2; Dunbar, Dr., describes, iii. 436, n. 1; Gibbon's dress, describes, ii. 443, n. 1; Johnson and Gibbon, describes, iii. 54, n. 2. COLOGNE, Elector of, iii. 447. COLONIES, a loss to the community, i. 130, n. 2. COLQUHOUN, Sir James, v. 363-5. COLQUHOUN, Lady Helen, v. 365. COLSON, Rev. Mr., Garrick and Johnson recommended to him, i. 102; Gelidus, i. 101, n. 3. Columbiade, The, iv. 331. COLUMBUS, i. 455, n. 3; iv. 250. COLVILL, Lady, v. 387, 394-5. COMB-MAKER, a punctuating, iii. 32, n. 5. Combabus, iii. 238, n. 2. COMBERMERE, v. 433-5. COMBERMERE, Lord, v. 433, n. 1. COMEDY, distinguished from farce, ii. 95; its great end, ii. 233. COMMANDMENT, ninth, emphasis in it, i. 169; in the sixth, i. 326, n. 1. COMMENTARIES ON THE BIBLE, iii. 58. COMMERCE, circulation of, iii. 177; effect of taxes on it, ii. 357; effect on relationship, ii. 177; not necessary to England, ii. 357. COMMISSARIES, ii. 339, n. 2; iii. 184. COMMON COUNCIL. See LONDON. COMMON PEOPLE, inaccuracy in thoughts and words, iii. 136; their language proverbial, ib. COMMON PRAYER BOOK, iv. 293. COMMONS, DOCTORS', i. 462, n. 1. COMMONS, House of. See DEBATES OF PARLIAMENT and HOUSE OF COMMONS. COMMUNION OF SAINTS, iv. 290. COMMUNITY OF GOODS, ii. 251. COMMUTATION OF SINS AND VIRTUES, iv. 398. COMPANION, the most welcome one, ii. 359, n. 2; a lasting one, iv. 235, n. 2. COMPANY, good things must be provided, iii. 186; iv. 90; love of mean company, i. 449; of a new person, iv. 33. See JOHNSON, Company. COMPIEGNE, ii. 400. COMPLAINTS, iii. 368. Complete Angler, i. 138, n. 5. Complete Vindication of the Licensers of the Stage, i. 140. COMPLIMENTS, offending the company by them, iv. 336; right to repeat them, iii. 240; without violating truth, iii. 161; unusual, v. 440, n. 2. COMPOSITION, causes of hasty, i. 192, n. 5; errors caused by partial changes, iv. 11; fine passages to be struck out, ii. 237; happy moments for it, v. 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.

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