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 of Boswell, 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.

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