Part 51

Coote, Sir Eyre, sent to India, iii. 166. His military reputation, 167.

Correctness, as a canon in art, i. 581. Folly of, 587.

Council of York, abolished, ii. 38.

Country Wife, Wycherley's, iii. 70, 77.

Courtenay, Rt. Hon. T. P., review of his Memoirs of Sir William Temple, ii. 498-599. His concessions to Dr. Lingard in regard to the Triple Alliance, 533. His opinion of Temple's proposed council, 554, 556. His error as to Temple's residence, 585 note.

Covenant, the Scotch, ii. 30.

Covenanters, the Scotch, their treaty with Charles I., ii. 30, 31.

Cowley, Abraham, his wit, ii. 204. Admired Bacon, 495.

Cowper, William, forerunner of literary revival in England, i. 591. Schoolmate of Warren Hastings, iii. 117.

Coxe, Archdeacon, eulogizes Sir R. Walpole, ii. 214.

Craggs, Secretary, ii. 238, 261.

Cranmer, Archbishop, his time-serving character, i. 299.

Crébillon, the younger, ii. 198.

Crisp, Samuel, iii. 340. His dramatic aspirations, 343. Failure and retirement, 345.

Criticism, cannot exist in perfection with the creative faculty, i. 190. Effect on critical poetry, 202.

Croker, John Wilson, his edition of Boswell's Johnson reviewed, i. 691-742. Misstatements in the notes, 691. Classical errors, 700. Want of perspicacity, 704. Triviality of his comments, 705. His style, 706. Omissions, 707. Additions, 708.

Cromwell, Henry, ii. 512.

Cromwell, Oliver, wisdom of his government, i. 124. His great opportunity, 345. Compared with Napoleon, 347. His service to justice, 348. His army, 348. His administration, 349. His foreign policy, 351. Weakness of his son, 352. Compared with Charles II., 353. His qualities, ii. 29, 61. His administration, 313, 319. His abilities displayed in Ireland, 519-521.

Crown, the, ii. 75. Curtailment of its prerogatives, 210, 211. Its power predominant at the beginning of the 17th century, 557. Decline of its power during the Pensionary Parliament, 560. Its long contest with the Parliament put an end to by the Revolution, 566. See Prerogative.

Culpeper, Mr., a leader of the Constitutional Royalists, ii. 43.

Cumberland, Duke of, single victory of, ii. 729. Hated by Scots, iii. 628. Opposes the French treaty, 630. His character, 649. Tries to induce Pitt to succeed Grenville, 650. Advises a Whig ministry without Pitt, 653. Death, 656.

D'Adda, quoted, ii. 333.

Danby, Earl of, ii. 210. His connection with Sir William Temple, 547. Unjust charges against, 551. Impeached and sent to the Tower, 553. Owed his dukedom to his talent in debate, 561.

Dante, criticism on, i. 1. His first adventure in the popular tongue, 2. Influences of the times in which he lived upon his works, 3, 4. His love of Beatrice, 11. His despair of happiness on earth, 12. Close connection between his intellectual and moral character, 12. Compared with Milton, 13, 99-101. His metaphors and comparisons, 15, 16. Little impression made by the forms of the external world upon him, 16, 19. Fascination revolting and nauseous images had for his mind, 18. His use of ancient mythology in his poems, 19. His idolatry of Virgil, 20. Excellence of his style, 20, 21. Remarks upon the translations of the Divine Comedy, 21, 22. His use of the supernatural, 105. His character as expressed in his poetry, 107. His veneration for lesser writers, 194.

D'Arblay, M., a French refugee, marries Fanny Burney, iii. 378.

D'Arblay, Madame, Diary and Letters reviewed, iii. 331-395. Family, 333. Education, 335. Shyness, 339. Writes Evelina, 347. Its success, 349. Johnson's affection for, 351. Writes a poor play, 353. Publishes Cecilia, 354. Loss of friends, 355. Meets the king, 357. Invited to be a keeper of the Queen's robes, 358. Drawbacks to the position, 359. Accepts it, 361. Slavery of the service, 362. Visits Oxford, 364. Attends the trial of Warren Hastings, 366. Her prejudice against his accusers, 367. Feeling on the king's illness, 369. Respect for the queen, 371. Leaves the court on account of ill-health, 375. Recovers, 377. Marries, 378. Lives in Paris, 379. Her character-drawing, 385. Her style, 387. Quotations to illustrate the changes in her style, 390-392. Her real service to English literature, 394.

D'Argens, Marquess, iii. 280.

Daun, an Austrian general, defeats Frederic the Great at Kolin, iii. 306. At Hochkirchen, 319. Driven from before Dresden, 320. Defeated at Buckersdorf, 327.