The Life of Samuel Johnson - James Boswell [750]
Const, Francis (1751–1839), lawyer: 526 n. b
Conybeare, DrJohn (1692–1755), bishop of Bristol: 617 n. a
Cook, Captain James (1728–79), explorer; surveyed Newfoundland (1763-7); first person to cross the Antarctic circle (1773); discovered the South Sandwich Islands and rediscovered South Georgia (1775); fellow of the Royal Society (1776); sighted Oahu and Kauai at the Western end of the Hawaiian Islands (1778); disproved the existence of a great southern continent in his three Pacific voyages; completed outlines of Australia and New Zealand; murdered by natives in Hawaii: 393, 523, 934
Cooke, or Cook, William (d. 1824), miscellaneous writer: 903
Cooksey, Richard: 433 n. b
Cooper, John Gilbert (1723–69), writer; author of a revisionist Life of Socrates (1749); allegedly called S.J. ‘the Caliban of literature’; author of Letters Concerning Taste (1754): 328, 603 andn. a, 765
Copley, John (fl. 1784): 989 n. a
Corbet, Andrew (1709–41): 38
Corderius, Mathurinus (1479–1564), see Clarke, John
Corelli, Arcangelo (1653–1713), Italian musician: 445
Cork and Orrery, Countess of, see Monckton, Hon. Mary
Cornbury, Henry Hyde, Viscount (1710–53); politician and Jacobite; friend of Pope, Swift and Bolingbroke: 491
Corneille, Pierre (1606–84), French dramatist: 771
Cornelius Nepos (110–24 BC); Roman historian and the first biographer to write in Latin; friend of Cicero, Atticus and Catullus: 58, 864
Cornwallis, Dr Frederick (1713–83), Archbishop of Canterbury; chaplain to George II (1746); dean of St Paul’s Cathedral (1766); conscientious administrator and conventional Georgian churchman; led episcopal contributions to fund for the dispossessed American episcopalian clergy (1776): 589
Coryate, Thomas (1577?–i617), traveller and buffoon: 353
Costard, Revd George (1710–82): 617 n. a
Cotterell, Admiral Charles (d. 1754): 134
Cotterell, Miss Charlotte, see Lewis, Mrs
Cotterell, the Misses (Frances and Charlotte): 134, 198, 203
Courayer, Pierre Francois Le (1681–1776), French divine: 62, 78
Courtenay, John (1741–1816), politician; supporter of North; MP for Tamworth (1780); joined the Whig Club (1788); opponent of Pitt; Friend of the Liberty of the Press; author of The Present State of the Manners, Arts, and Politics of France and Italy (1794); frequenter of London literary society; attached himself to J.B.; admirer of S.J., publishing A Poetical Review (1786) on his character: 40 and n. a, 103 n. b, 123, 124 n. a, 170, 252, 404, 433 n. b, 457 n. b, 688, 691, 938, 941 n. b, 973, 976 n. a
Courtown, James Stopford, 2nd Earl of (1731–1810): 462
Covington, Alexander Lockhart, Lord (c. 1700–82), Scottish lawyer: 638
Cowley, Abraham (1618–67), poet of high reputation among his contemporaries; received qualified praise from S.J. as well as imitation and admiration from Dryden; author of ‘The Complaint’ (1663) and The Visions and Prophecies concerning England, Scotland, and Ireland (1660); Works went through fourteen editions (1668–1721); carried Caroline wit-writing into the early Restoration: 102, 154, 534, 646, 783, 819, 851
Cowley, Father (fl. 1775–7), prior of the Benedictine Convent, Paris: 470, 475,476
Cowper, William (1731–1800), poet and letter writer; translated The Iliad into Miltonic blank verse (1791); published Poems in 1782; author of The Task (1785), a 6,000-line poem in blank verse; advocated humane treatment of animals and championed the abolition of slavery movement; suffered from breakdown and attempted suicides: 703 n. a
Cowper, William Cowper, 1st Earl (d. 1723), Lord Chancellor: 526 n. b
Cox, Mr: 942
Coxeter, Thomas (1689–1747), literary scholar and editor; aided Theobald with his 1734 Shakespeare; plan to make a collection of all the English poets who had published a volume of verse heavily influenced The Lives of the Poets (1753) and was discussed by J.B. and S.J. in 1777: 607
Crabbe, George (1754–1832), poet and Church of England clergyman; enjoyed patronage of Edmund Burke; acquaintance of S.J.; contributed lines 15–20 to S.J.’s The