Cowper, his poems and their publisher, 192; his mental malady, 226; the ballad of John Gilpin, 227; the poor school-master, Teedon, 228; his attempt at suicide, 246; his giggling with Thurlow, 246; the sanest of English poets, 254; fancied himself hated by his Creator, 259; a melancholy confession of, 317. Crabbe, wrote and burned three novels, 259. Credulity, 20, 224. Creed, in the biliary duct, 8; referred to in the rebuke of a clergyman, 20. Crichton, curious achievement of, 264. Cromwell, his distrust of popular applause, 298; and Charles II., 304; and Milton, 304; how estimated when flattery was mute, 304; manner of his death, 304. Crowne, John, reading by lightning, 46. Cumberland, and Sheridan, 9; describes Soame Jenyns, 236; Goldsmith and his comedy, 270; the dinner at the Shakespeare tavern, 271; predicament of an artist in serpents, 300; a reflection on old age, 332; on a man gifted with worldly qualities, 350; remark on Bubb Doddington, 378. Curing public evils, 25. Curiosity, 17, 32. Curran, contest with the fish-woman, 28; remark to Phillips about his speeches, 249; melancholy nature of, 314. Curtis, George William, castles in Spain, 327. Cushman, Charlotte, anecdote related by, 35. Custom, doth make cowards of us all, 64. Daguerre, his discovery anticipated, 181. Damascus blades of the Crusades, 180. Dante, a story told of, 170; the prodigal and the avaricious together, 302. D'Arblay, Madame, and Mrs. Barbauld's stanza on Life, 356. Darwin, cattle in East Falkland Island, 10; earthquake at Talcahuano, 17; a curious fox on the island of San Pedro, 18; conduct of the Fuegians, 27; petrified trees on the Andes, 108; conduct of the New Zealand chief, 211; the three years' drought in Buenos Ayres, 222; sound and silence in the forest of Brazil, 301. D'Alembert, declines the favors of royalty, 141. De Coverley, Sir Roger, cause of the death of, 373. De Foe, rules from the Complete English Tradesman, 86. De l'Isle and the Marseillaise, 205, 248. Della Valle, conduct of the women at Goa, 34; his own strange conduct, 35. Demetrius, and his father, 166; a story told of, 167. Democritus, thought to be a madman, 144. Demosthenes, gloried in the smell of the lamp, 131; timidity of, 262. Denham, curious facts relating to, 235; anecdote of, 235. De Quincey, no thought without blemish, 90; his estimate of Goethe, 146; of Milton, 152. Descartes, modesty of, 238. De Retz, statement of, 234. Desert, painful silence of the, 301. De Stael, Madame, criticism of Godwin, 98; and Madame Recamier, 172; Talleyrand's reply to, 187; Napoleon's hatred of, 253; mourns the solitude of life, 335. De Tocqueville, character of the French, 40; remark of an old lady to, 75; story told to by Rulhiere, 77; on old age, 333; some wise observations on life, 341. Devil, the Reformation and the, 204; the priest and the, 204.