62, 170;
constant to those he employed, iv. 319;
Constantinople, wish to go to, iv. 28;
constitution, strength of his, iv. 256, n. 3;
_Construction of Fireworks_, v. 246, n. 1;
contraction of his friends' names, ii. 258; v. 308;
contradiction, actuated by its spirit, iii. 66; v. 387;
exasperated by it, ii. 122;
pleasure in it, in. 24;
conversation, antique statue, like an, iii. 317;
Bacon's precept, in conformity with, iv. 236;
colloquial pleasantry, iv. 428;
contest, a, ii. 450; iv. 111;
described by Hogarth, i. 147, n. 2;
Dr. King, ii. 95, n. 1;
E. Dilly, iii. 110;
Reynolds, iv. 184;
Malone, ib. n. 2;
Miss Burney and Mrs. Thrale, iv. 237, n. 1;
Macaulay, ib.;
Mrs. Piozzi, iv. 346;
Boswell, ib.;
elegant as his writing, ii. 95, n. 2; iv. 236, 428;
essential requisite for it, in want of an, iv. 166;
exact precision, ii. 434;
happiest kind, his view of the, iv. 50;
imaginary victories gained over him, iv. 168, n. 1;
labours when he says a good thing, v. 77;
'literature in it, very little,' v. 307;
'music to hear him speak,' v. 246;
old man in it, nothing of the, iii. 336;
originality, iv. 421, n. 1;
point and imagery, teemed with, iii. 260;
rule to talk his best, i. 204;
'runts, would learn to talk of,' iii. 337;
seldom started a subject, iii.
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