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. 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.