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 Courtly, Mrs. her character, ii. 59.

Cowley, Abraham, his life, vii. 1. the son of a grocer, and born in 1618, ibid. became a poet from reading Spenser's Faery Queen, ibid. educated at Westminster school, 2. could not retain the rules of grammar, ibid. a volume of poems printed in his thirteenth year, ibid. wrote Pyramus and Thisbe at ten years of age, and Constantia and Philetus at twelve, ibid. removed to Cambridge in 1636, 3. ejected from Cambridge, and takes shelter at St. John's college, Oxford, in 1643, ibid. employed in ciphering and deciphering the letters between the king and queen, 4. writes his Mistress without being in love, ibid. secretary to lord Jermyn at Paris, 5. some of his letters preserved in Brown's Miscellanea Aulica, ibid. his opinion of the Scotch treaty, 6. sent back from Paris, under pretence of privacy and retirement, 7. seized by the usurping powers, and obliged to give a security of one thousand pounds, ibid. supposed to relax from his loyalty, ibid. purposes to retire to America, ibid. takes up the character of physician, 8. writes a copy of verses on the death of Oliver, ibid. made Dr. of physick at Oxford, 1657, 9. writes in the Philosophical Transactions, ibid. studies botany, and writes several books on plants in Latin, 10. superior to Milton in Latin poetry, ibid. retires into Surrey, ibid. obtains a lease of the queen's lands, 13. his letter to Dr. Sprat, ibid. died at Chertsey, 1667, and buried with great pomp, near Chaucer and Spenser, 14. Charles the second said, Cowley had not left behind him a better man in England, ibid. was at one time too much praised, at another too much neglected, ibid. critical remarks on his poems, 18. the best metaphysical poet, 30. a passage in his writings illustrated, ii. 27. his epitaph, with observations on it, v. 262.

Cradock, Zachary, elected provost of Eton, vii. 199.

Craggs, James, Pope's epitaph on him, viii. 352.

Credulity, the common failing of unexperienced virtue, iii. 324. described, iv. 179. of political zealots the most obstinate, 37. of the bigots of philosophy examined, 180.

Crispe, sir Nicholas, assisted the king with one hundred thousand pounds, vii. 188. forms a plot in favour of the king, 189.

Criticism, not criminal, viii. 338. genuine, the offspring of labour, truth, and equity, ii. 121. the art of it regulated by precarious and fluctuating principles, 114. iii. 248. the proper end to which it should be applied, 328. minute, censured and exploded, ibid. the importance of that study, iv. 325. story of Dick Minim, a critick, ibid. plan for an academy, 329.

Criticks, their true character, ii. 12. the different dispositions and measures of the candid and the severe, 114, 115. remarks on their censures of other writers, 439. they are often misled by interest, 440. the different classes of criticks assigned, and their arts and insults exposed, iii. 326, 328. the methods by which their malevolent designs may be defeated, ibid. their character, iv. 159. their duty to young actors, 223. observations on, 374. their use to the world, v. 150.

Cromwell, O. commenced protector with kingly power, vii. 86. instance of Milton's flattery of, 87. versed in ancient history, 195. character of Waller's panegyrick on, ibid. desirous of the title of king, 196. his dissolution of parliament recommended as a proper subject for an historical painting, iv. 284.

Cromwell, Mr. an early correspondent of Pope, viii. 240.

Crousaz, a view of the controversy between him and Warburton, on Pope's Essay on Man, v. 202.

Cruelty, in experimental philosophy and anatomy reprobated, iv. 200.

Cuddy fish, account of, ix. 71.

Cunning, characterized, iv. 419.

Cupidus, his observations on the folly of visionary opulence, ii. 344.

Curiosity, the danger of indulging an injudicious, 387. a principle of powerful and extensive operation, 482. iii. 63. the folly of being solely influenced by it in the pursuit of knowledge, ii. 487. to be indulged with caution and judgment, 488. the great folly of it when extravagant, 289. the first and last passion in great and generous minds, iii. 212. an instance of its commanding influence, 213. a strong principle of action, 260.