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INDEX
- Chatham, Lord, 10.
- Chaucer, 126, 128; quoted, 99.
- Chesterfield, Lord, 76.
- Children, Johnson and, 66, 71, 171.
- Churchill on Johnson, 77.
- Cibber, Theophilus, 119–26.
- Clarke, Sam., 106.
- Classical doctrine of poetry, 147.
- Coleridge, 154.
- Commonplace, 13, 37.
- Congreve, 27, 87–8, 118.
- Conversation, Johnson’s, 45, 48, 51–2, 71, 96–7.
- Cook, Wm., Life of Johnson, 41; memory of Goldsmith, 65.
- Cooper, Mrs. Eliz., 118–19.
- Corneille, 88.
- Cowley, 105, 126, 128, 133, 137, 152, 153.
- Cowper, William, 145–7.
- Coxeter, Thos., 119.
- Criticism, breadth of Johnson’s, 157.
- Cumberland, Richard, 53, 61.
- Curll, Edmund, 117, 118.
- Cymbeline, 94.
- Dante, 176.
- Death, Johnson on, 48–9, 71.
- Denham, 157.
- Devotional poetry, Johnson on, 159–61; Dr. Watts on, 161–3.
- Dictionary, Johnson’s, 12, 31, 33, 34, 75–6, 82, 126.
- Dictionary of National Biography, 8.
- Dies Irae, 162.
- Dilly, Edward, 128.
- Donne, 103, 104, 176.
- Drayton, 102.
- Dryden, 8, 126, 131, 136–7, 138, 140–1, 149–50, 157, 164, 166–8.
- Eating, Johnson’s manner of, 52–53.
- Education, Johnson on, 69.
- Egotism, Johnson’s freedom from, 59–60.
- Emendation of Shakespeare, Johnson’s views on, 90–2.
- English character, 32, 35, 163.
- Essay on Man, Pope’s, 148.
- Essex Head Club, 41, 44.
- Exit Pistol, Johnson’s note on, 86.
- Farmer, Dr., 80.
- Faults of Shakespeare, 86–9.
- Fitzherbert, 58.
- Flint, Elizabeth, 169–71.
- Foote, 41, 92–3.
- Fox, Charles James, 20.
- Freedom, poetic, 157.
- Fuller, Thos., 100, 102, 105, 107.
- Garrick, David, 22, 80, 88, 93.
- Gay, 144, 148.
- Gesticulation, Johnson on, 21–2.
- Ghost, The, Churchill’s, 77.
- Ghosts, Johnson on, 70.
- Gibbon, 138.
- Goldsmith, 61–6, 72, 73.
- ‘Good kissing carrion,’ 91.
- Grainger, Dr., 77.
- Gray, 30, 139–40.
- Great, the, and Johnson, 59.
- Greville, Sir Fulke, 101.
- Griffiths, Ralph, 119, 120–5 n.
- Gunpowder, Johnson on, 48.
