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MACALLAN, Eupham (Euphan M’Cullan), v. 39. MACARTNEY, Earl of, Boswell’s Life of Johnson, praises, i. 13; Campbell, Dr. John, account of, i. 418, n. 1 iii. 343, n. 4; embassy to China, i. 13, n. 2, 367, n. 2; Hindoos, describes a peculiarity of the, iv. 12, n. 2; Johnson and Lady Craven, anecdote, iii. 22, n. 2; Literary Club, member of the, i. 479; mentioned, i. 380; iii. 238, n. 2, 425. MACAULAY, Dr., a physician, husband of Mrs. Macaulay the historian, i. 242, n. 4; iii. 402. MACAULAY, Mrs. Catherine, the historian, Boswell wishes to pit her against Johnson, iii. 185; Johnson and her footman, i. 447; iii. 77; had not read her History, iii. 46, n. 2; ‘match’ with her, ii. 336; political and moral principles, wonders at, ii. 219; toast, i. 487; maiden name and marriage, i. 242, n. 4; ‘reddening her cheeks,’ iii. 46; ridiculous, making her, ii. 336; Shakespeare’s plays and her daughter, i. 447, n. 1; mentioned, ii. 46, n. 1. MACAULAY, Dr. James, Bibliography of Rasselas, ii. 208, n. 3. MACAULAY, Rev. John, Lord Macaulay’s grandfather, v. 355, n. 1, 360, n. 1; a man of good sense, v. 360; on principles and practice, v. 359. MACAULAY, Rev. Kenneth (Lord Macaulay’s great-uncle), colds caught at St. Kilda, on, ii. 51, 150; v. 278; History of St. Kilda, ii. 150; Johnson visits him, v. 118; disbelieves his having written the History, v. 119; calls him ‘a bigot to laxness,’ v. 120; praises his magnanimity, ii. 51, 150; v. 278. MACAULAY, Mrs. Kenneth, Johnson offers to get a servitorship for her son, ii, 380; v. 122; mentioned, v. 119. MACAULAY, Thomas Babington (Lord Macaulay), ancestors, ii. 51, n. 2; v. 118, n. 1, 355, n. 1; Addison, Essay on, iv. 53, n. 3; anfractuosity, iv. 4, n. 1; Bentley and Boyle, v. 238, n. 1; ‘brilliant flashes of silence,’ v. 360, n. 1; Boswell as a biographer, i. 30, n. 3; Burke’s first speech, ii. 16, n. 2; Campbell’s, Dr., Diary, ii. 338, n. 2; Chesterfield, Earl of, eminence of the, ii. 329, n. 3; Crisp, Mr., account of, iv. 239, n. 3; Croker’s ‘blunders,’ ii. 338, n. 2; criticism on Ad Lauram Epigramma, i. 157, n. 5; Greek, v. 234, n. 1; Latin, iv. 144, n. 2; and the Marquis of Montrose, v. 298, n. 1; and Prince Titi, ii. 391, n. 4; feeling and dining, on, ii. 94, n. 2; Gibbon’s reported Mahometanism, ii. 448, n. 2; Hastings’s answer to Johnson’s letter, iv. 70, n. 2; Hastings and the study of Persian, iv. 68, n. 2; House of Ormond, i. 281, n. 1; imagination, described, iii. 455; Johnson’s blank verse, iv. 42, n. 7; and Boswell on the non-jurors, iv. 286, n. 3, 287, n. 2; called, iv. 94, n. 4; and Cecilia, iv. 223, n. 5, 389, n. 4; contempt of histories, iv. 312, n. 1; etymologies, i. 186, n. 5; and Horne Tooke, i. 297, n. 2; household, i. 232; ill-fed roast mutton, iv. 284, n. 4; knowledge of the science of human nature, iii. 450; of London and the country, ib.; talk and style of writing, iv. 237, n. 1; v. 145, n. 2; translation of his own sayings, iv. 320, n. 2; on travelling, Appendix B, iii. 449-59; King’s evil, i. 42, n. 3; Literary Club, i. 477, n. 4; Mattaire’s use of Carteret as a dactyl, iv. 3; Pitt’s peerages, iv. 249, n. 4; treatment of Johnson and Gibbon, iv. 350, n. 1; Prendergrass, ii. 183, n. 1; Richardson’s novels, ii. 174, n. 2; Thrale’s, Mrs., second marriage, iii. 49, n. 1; Warburton, the, of our age, ii. 36, n. 2; William III and Dodwell, v. 437, n. 3; window tax, v. 301, n. 1. MACAULEY, Dr. (Cock Lane Ghost), (probably Dr. Macaulay, the husband of Mrs. Macaulay the historian), i. 407, n. 3. MACBEAN, Alexander, Johnson’s amanuensis, account of him, i. 187; calling, on, iv. 94; Charterhouse, brother of the, i. 187; iii. 440-1; death, iii. 44l, n. 3; stood as a screen between Johnson and death, ib.; Johnson’s Preface to his Geography, i. 187; ii. 204; learning, a man of great, iii. 106; starving, ii. 379, n. 1; mentioned, i. 138, 139; iii. 25. MACBEAN, the younger, i. 187. Macbeth, Miscellaneous Observations on, i. 175. For Macbeth, See under SHAKESPEARE. Maccabees, Johnson looks into the, ii. 189, n. 3. Maccaroni, a, v. 84. MACCARONIC verses, iii. 283. MACCLESFIELD, v. 432. MACCLESFIELD, Charles Gerard, Earl of, Bill of Divorce, i. 170, n. 5. MACCLESFIELD, Countess of, account of her, i. 174, n. 2; divorced, i. 170; marries Colonel Brett, i. 174, n. 2; Savage’s reputed mother, i. 166, n. 4; evidence of his story examined, i. 170-4; reproached at Bath, i. 174, n. 1. MACCLESFIELD, Thomas Parker, first Earl of, i. 157. MACCLESFIELD, George Parker, second Earl of, i. 267, n. 1. MACCONOCHIE — , a Scotch advocate, iii. 213. MACCRUSLICK, v. 166, n. 2. MACDONALD, Clan of, ii. 269, 270. MACDONALD, Sir Alexander, of Slate (father of Sir James and Sir Alexander Macdonald), v. 174, 188, 260. MACDONALD, Sir Alexander, first Lord Macdonald, arms rusty, his, v. 151, 355; Boswell and Johnson try to rouse him, v. 150-1; feudal system, attacks the, ii. 177; flees from his tenants, v. 150, n. 3; Johnson, introduced to, ii. 157; invites him to visit him, v. 14; inhospitality, ii. 303, n. 1; v. 148, n. 1, 157, n. 2; ‘a very penurious gentleman,’ v. 277, 279; anecdotes of his penuriousness, v. 315-6; passages suppressed by Boswell, v. 148, n. 1, 415, n. 4; landlord, an oppressive, v. 149, 161; Latin verses, his bad, v. 419; sugar-tongs in his house, absence of, v. 22, n. 1; mentioned, ii. 169, n. 2, 173, 191, n. 2; v. 275. MACDONALD, Lady, wife of the first Lord Macdonald, ii. 169, n. 2; v. 147. MACDONALD, Alexander, of Kingsburgh (old Kingsburgh), his annuity, v. 257-8; helps the Pretender, v. 188-9; examined, v. 259-60; mentioned, v. 160-1. MACDONALD of Kingsburgh, the younger, account of him, v. 184; emigrates, v. 185; mentioned, v. 205-6. MACDONALD, old Mrs. of Kingsburgh, v. 190. MACDONALD, Archibald, M.P., v. 153, n. 1. MACDONALD of Clanranold, v. 158. MACDONALD, Sir Donald, v. 147. MACDONALD, Donald, v. 149. MACDONALD, Donald (Donald Roy), v. 190-1. MACDONALD, Flora, wife of Macdonald of Kingsburgh, Account of her adventures, v. 187-191, 201, 259; Courtenay’s Poetical Review, mentioned in, ii. 268; emigrates, v. 185, n. 3; courage on board ship, ib.; health drunk on Jan. 30, iii. 371; Johnson visits her, v. 179, 184; Primrose, Lady, rewards her, v. 201, n. 3; virulent Jacobite in her old age, v. 185, n. 4. MACDONALD, Hugh, v. 279. MACDONALD, Sir James, account of him, i. 449; death, v. 153, n. 1; deeply regretted, v. 149; English education, v. 149; epitaph, v. 151; generosity, v. 258; Johnson, terror of, i. 449; letters to his mother, v. 153, n. 1; Marcellus of Scotland, iv. 82, n. 1; v. 152, n. 1; Rasay has his sword, v. 174; mentioned, v. 183, 289. MACDONALD, James, a factor, Johnson visits him, v. 275-79. MACDONALD, James, of Knockow, v. 257. MACDONALD, Lady Margaret, widow of Sir A. Macdonald of Slate, adored in Sky, iii. 383; v. 260; befriends the Pretender, v. 188; raises a monument to her son, v. 153. MACDONALD, Ranald, ii. 309. MACDONALD of Scothouse, v. 197. MACDONALD of Sky, league with Rasay, v. 174. MACFARLANE, THE LAIRD OF, the antiquary, v. 156, n. 3. MACFRIAR, Donald, v. 191-2. M’GHIE, Dr. William, i. 191, n. 5. M’GINNISES, The, v. 337. MACKENZIE, — , of Applecross, v. 194. MACKENZIE, Sir George, Characteres Advocatorum, v. 212-4; Dryden describes him as ‘that noble wit of Scotland’, iv. 38, n. 1. MACKENZIE, Henry, Man of Feeling, i. 360; Man of the World, i. 360, n. 2; v. 277; Mirror, The, iv. 390, n. 1; Poker Club, ii. 431, n. 1; Wedderburne’s Club, iv. 179, n. 1; mentioned, ii. 35, n, 1. MACKENZIE, John, v. 191-3. MACKENZIE, — , stories of second sight, v. 160. MACKINNON, of Corrichatachin, v. 156; Boswell calls him Corri, v. 258; Johnson visits him, v. 156-162, 257-265. MACKINNON, John, v. 197-8. MACKINNON, Lady, v. 198. MACKINNON, Laird of, v. 165, 195, 197-9. MACKINNON, Mrs., v. 160-1, 259, 264. MACKINTOSH, Sir James, Aberdeen, his fellow-students at, v. 85, n. 2; study of Greek there, v. 92, n. 1; birth-place, v. 132, n. 1; Burke on Boswell’s Life as a monument to Johnson’s fame, i. 10, n. 1; and Gibbon, ii. 348, n. 1; on Johnson’s talk, iv. 316, n. 1; as a metaphysician, i. 472, n. 2; Dunbar, Dr., iii. 436, n. 1; Fox’s character, iv. 167, n. 1; election to the Literary Club, ii. 274, n. 4; Gray’s and Walpole’s style, iii. 31, n. 1; Johnson, groundless charge against, v. 332, n. 1; idea of a ship, v. 137, n. 4; withheld from metaphysics, v. 109, n. 3; leading life over again, on, iv. 303, n. 1; Macdonald, Sir James, v. 152, n. 1; Priestley, Dr., iv. 443; Temple’s style, iii. 257, n. 3; torture, late use of, i. 467, n. 1; mentioned, iii. 40, n. 3; 230, n. 5. MACKLIN, Charles, Life by W. Cooke, iv. 437; Man of the World, v. 277, n. 1; taught Wedderburne, iii. 2. MACLAURIN, Professor Colin, epitaphs, his, v. 49-50; Goldsmith’s anecdote of his yawning, iii. 15; tries to fortify Edinburgh, v. 49, n. 6. MACLAURIN, John (afterwards Lord Dreghorn),
argument for Knight, a negro, iii. 86; motto for it from Virgil, iii. 87, n. 3, 212; plea read by Johnson, iii. 88, 101, 127, 212; epitaphs on his father, his, v. 49; Goldsmith’s story of his father, uneasy at, iii. 15; Johnson, introduced to, v. 48; style, caricatures, ii. 363; ‘made dish,’ his, i. 469; v. 394, n. 1. MACLEAN, Alexander, Laird of Col. See COL, the old Laird of. MACLEAN, Dr. Alexander, a physician of Tobermorie, Johnson visits him, v. 313-16; wrote The History of the Macleans, v. 313; mentioned, v. 310, 319. MACLEAN, Dr. Alexander, another physician of Mull, v. 340. MACLEAN, Sir Allan, Chief of the Macleans, v. 310; Johnson visits him, v. 322-31; his house, v. 322, n. 1, 323; Sunday evening, v. 325; accompanies Johnson, v. 331-44; in Iona, v. 335; asserts the rights of a chieftain, v. 337; brags of Scotland, v. 340; visits Lochbury, v. 341-3; lawsuit, his, ii. 380, n. 4; iii. 95, 101, 102, 122, 126-7; hates writers to the signet, v. 343, n. 3. MACLEAN, Captain Lauchlan, v. 284-285, 294, 305. MACLEAN, Clan of, ii. 269. MACLEANS of Col, story of the, v. 297, n. 1. MACLEAN, Donald, young Laird of Col. See COL, Laird of. MACLEAN, Donald, of Col, father of the old laird, v. 299. MACLEAN of Corneck, v. 293, 294, 296, 301. MACLEAN, Sir Hector, v. 299, 323. MACLEAN, Rev. Hector, v. 286-8, 306. MACLEAN, Sir John, v. 314. MACLEAN, John, a bard, v. 314. MACLEAN of Lochbuy. See LOCHBUY, Laird of. MACLEAN, Miss, of Inchkenneth, v. 325. MACLEAN, Miss, of Tobermorie, v. 314, 3I7. MACLEAN of Muck, v. 225. MACLEAN, nephew to Maclean of Muck, v. 225. MACLEAN of Torloisk, ii. 308. Macleans, History of the, v. 313. MACLEOD of Bay, v. 208. MACLEOD, Captain, of Balmenoch, v. 144. MACLEOD, Clan of, two branches, v. 410; question as to the chieftainship, ib., v. 412. MACLEOD, Colonel, of Talisker, account of him, v. 256, 260; Johnson visits him, v. 250-56; mentioned, v. 95, 165, l79, 2l5, 22l, 234. MACLEOD, Dr., of Rasay, wounded at Culloden, v. 190, 194; receives a present from the Pretender, v. 195; mentioned, v. 165, 169, 183, 192, 411. MACLEOD, Donald (late of Canna), v. 156, 260, 272. MACLEOD of Ferneley, v. 250. MACLEOD, Flora, of Rasay, her beauty, v. 178; married, iii. 118, 122; visits Boswell, v. 411. MACLEOD of Hamer, v. 225. MACLEOD, John Breck, v. 233-4. MACLEOD, John, of Rasay. See Rasay. MACLEOD, Laird of, account of him, v. 176; as a chief, v. 208, 211, 215, 250; estates, v. 231; fisheries, v. 249; Johnson visits him, v. 14, 207; is offered Island Isa, v. 249; takes leave of him, v. 256; writes to him, v. 266, n. 2; mentioned, v. 141, 165, 177, 217, 229, 234, 251. MACLEOD, old Laird of, v. 143, 289. MACLEOD, Lady (widow of the old laird), Johnson, welcomes, v. 207-8, 266, n. 2; argues on principles and practice, v. 210; on natural goodness, v. 211; on removing the family seat, v. 222; mentioned, v. 215. MACLEOD of Lewis, v. 167. MACLEOD, Magnus, v. 208. MACLEOD, Malcolm, account of him, v. 161-2, 166, 168; befriends the Pretender, v. 190-9; arrested, v. 200-1; tells a legend, v. 171; mentioned, iii. 119; v. 179, 183. MACLEOD, Rev. Neal, v. 338, 340. MACLEOD, Sir Normand, v. 319. MACLEOD, Professor, of Aberdeen, v. 92, 95, 251. MACLEOD, Sir Roderick (Rorie More), his cascade, v. 207, 215, 223; bed, v. 208; horn, v. 212, 320; mentioned, v. 219. MACLEOD, Roderick, v. 242. MACLEOD, Sandie, v. 165; known as M’Cruslick, v. 166, 168, 178. MACLEOD, Mrs., of Talisker, v. 253. MACLEOD, —— , of Ulinish, account of him, v. 235; mentioned, v. 177, 211, 246, 248. MACLONICH, Clan of, v. 297, n. 1. MACLURE, Captain, v. 319. MACMARTINS, v. 298. MACNEIL of Barra, v. 227, n. 4. M’NEILL, P. Tranent and its Surroundings, iii. 202, n. 1. M’NICOL, Rev. Donald, ii. 308, n. 1. MACPHERSON, James, account of his person and character by Dr. Carlyle, ii. 300, n. 1; by Hume, ii. 298, n. 1; buried in Westminster Abbey, ii. 298, n. 2; Fragments of Ancient Poetry, ii. 126, n. 2; Homer, translation of, ii. 298; iii. 333, n. 2; ‘impudent fellow,’ i. 432; newspapers, ‘supervised’ the, ii. 307, n. 4; Ossian, ii. 126, n. 2, 302; criticisms, &c. on it: ‘abandoning one’s mind to write such stuff,’ iv. 183; ‘writing in that style,’ v. 388; concocted, how, v. 242; Cuchullin’s car and sword, v. 242; Giants of Patagonia, on a par with the, v. 387; gross imposition, v. 241; Highlander, testimony of a, iii. 51; manuscripts, no, ii. 297, 302, 309, 310, 311, 347, 383; Johnson’s attack, Macpherson furious at, ii. 292; tries intimidation, ii. 296; writes to him, ii. 297; answer, ii. 297, n. 2, 298; rejoinder to Clark, iv. 252; opinions of Ossian formed by Blair, i. 396; ii. 296, 302, n. 2; v. 243; Boswell, ii. 302, 309; v. 388, n. 1, 389; Carlyle, Dr. A., ii. 302, n. 2; Dundas, President, ib.; Dempster, ii. 303; v. 408; Elibank, Lord, v. 388; Gibbon, ii. 302, n. 2; Hume, ii. 302, n. 2; Macqueen, Rev. D., v. 164, 240, 242; Oughton, Sir A., v. 45; Scott, Sir Walter, v. 164, n. 2; Shaw, Rev. W., pamphlet by, iv. 252; answer by Clark, ib.; Smith, Adam, ii. 302, n. 2; Smollett, ii. 302, n. 2; national pride concerned, iv. 141; v. 240, n. 6; ‘originals’ of Fingal, ii. 294-6; iii. 286; v. 95, 388, 389; public interest at an end (1785), v. 389; rhapsody, a, ii. 126; wolf not mentioned, ii. 347; pension, ii. 307, n. 4; Remarks on Johnson’s Journey, ii. 308, n. 1; subscription raised for him, ii. 302. MACPHERSON, Dr. John, Dissertations, v. 159, 206: Latin verse, v. 265; mentioned, v. 119. MACPHERSON, Rev. Martin, v. 159, 265, 267. MACPHERSON, Miss, of Slate, v. 265. MACQUARRY of Ormaig, iii. 133. MACQUARRY, or Macquarrie, or Macquharrie, of Ulva, in debt, iii. 95, 101; estates sold, iii. 126-7, 133; ill-judged hospitality, v. 331, n. 1; Johnson visits him, v. 319-21; mentioned, ii. 308. MACQUEEN of Anoch, v. 135-7, 140. MACQUEEN, Rev. Donald, Aborigines, discovers a house of the, v. 236; Anaitis, a temple of, v. 218-221, 224; Boswell, letter to, v. 161; Edinburgh, visits, ii. 380; emigration, on, v. 205; Erse writings, ii. 380-1, 383; Johnson’s regard for him, v. 224, 252, 257; learned man, a, v. 166, 251; Ossian, v. 164, 240, 242-3; second-sight, v. 163, 227; Sky, projects a book on, v. 257; witchcraft, v. 164; mentioned, v. 150, 170, 179, 183, 185, 215, 217, 237, 239, 248, 253, 254. M’CRAAS, Clan of the, v. 142-3, 225. M’CRAILS, v. 233. MACRAY, Rev. W. D., Annals of the Bodleian, iv. 161, n. 1. MACROBIUS, quoted by Johnson, i. 59; saying of Julia, iii. 25. MACSWEYN, Mr. and Mrs., v. 289, 305. MACSWEYN, Hugh, v. 289. MAC SWINNY, Owen, recollections of Dryden, iii. 71; pun on the Cambrick Bill, iii. 71, n, 4. Mad Tom, iii. 249. MADAN, Rev. Martin, Thoughts on Executive Justice, iv. 328, n. 1. MADDEN, Rev. Dr. Samuel, Johnson castigates his Boulter’s Monument, i. 318; orchards, on, iv. 205; premium scheme, his, i. 318; Whig, a great, ii. 321. MADDOCKS, —— , the strawman, iii. 231, n. 2. MADNESS, caused by indulgence of imagination, iv. 208; employment best suited for it, iv. 161, n. 4; evil spirits, people possessed with, iii. 176, n. 1; Gaubius defines it, i. 65; infamous persons supposed mad, iii. 176, n. 2; Johnson describes it in Rasselas, i. 65; dreads it, i. 66; is ‘mad, at least not sober,’ i. 35; v. 215; madmen love to be with those whom they fear, iii. 176; seek for pain, ib.; melancholy, confounded with, iii. 175; relief from it in the bottle, i. 277, n. 1; Smart’s prayers, shown by, i. 397; iv. 31, n. 5; turned upside down, iii. 27; undiscovered, iv. 31. MADRID, v. 23, n. 1. MAECENAS, iii. 296, n. 1. Mag. Extraordinary, i. 156. MAGAZINES, Goldsmith describes their origin, v. 59, n. 1. MAGICIANS, Italian, iii. 382. MAGISTRATE, anecdote of a dull country one, iv. 312; fear to call out the guards, iii. 46; how far they should tolerate false doctrine, ii. 249-253; salaries of the Westminster justices, iii. 217, n. 2. Mahogany, a drink, iv. 78. MAHOGANY WOOD, iv. 79. MAHOMET, ii. 151. MAHOMETAN WORLD, iv. 199. MAHOMETANS, ii. 14, 151. MAID OF HONOUR, flattery by a, iii. 322. MAIDSTONE, iv. 328, n. 1. MAINE, Sir Henry, Borough English, v. 320, n. 2. MAINTENON, Mme. de, iv. 413, n. 2. MAITLAND, Mr., one of Johnson’s amanuenses, i. 187. MAITTAIRE, M., Senilia, iv. 2; makes Carteret a dactyl, iv. 3. MAJOR, John, De Gestis Scotorum, v. 406. MAJORITY, distinguished from superiority, ii. 373. Make money, iii. 196. MALAGRIDA, iv. 174. MALCOLM III, v. 320, n. 2. MALE SUCCESSION. See SUCCESSION. MALET DU PAN, ii. 366, n. 2. MALLET, David, alias Malloch, ii. 159, n. 3; iv. 217; Alfred, v. 175, n. 2; Bacon, Life of, iii. 194; Bolingbroke’s Works, edits, i. 268; Byng, writes against, ii. 128; Critical Review, writes in the, i. 409, n. 1; Elvira, i. 408; Garrick, fools, v. 175, n. 2; Gibbon domesticated with him, i. 268, n. 1; Hume’s Scotticisms, ii. 72, n. 2; job, ready for any dirty, ii. 128; Johnson criticises his dramas, i. 408, n. 2; and his works, ii. 233, n. 1; draws his character, i. 268; ii. 159, n. 3; Dictionar
y, in, iv. 217; literary reputation, his, kept alive as long as he, ii. 233; Macgregor, by origin a, v. 127, n. 3; Malloch, published under the name of, iv. 216; Margaret’s Ghost, iv. 229, n. 4; Marlborough, Life of, undertakes the, iii. 194; never begins it, iii. 386; receives money for it, v. 175, n. 2; Pope’s Essay on Man, iii. 402; ‘prettiest drest puppet,’ v. 174; Scotch accent, never caught in a, ii. 159; only Scot whom Scotchmen did not commend, ib., n. 3; Warburton, attacks, i. 329. MALLET, Mrs., Hume and the deists, ii. 8, n. 4. MALLET, P.H., Histoire de Danemarck, iii. 274, n. 2. MALMESBURY, first Earl of, ii. 225, n. 2. MALONE, Edmond, accuracy and justice, his love of, iv. 51; Addison’s loan to Steele, iv. 52; Baretti’s infidelity, ii. 8, n. 3; Boswell, becomes acquainted with, v. 1, n. 5; dedicates to him the Tour to the Hebrides, ii. 1, n. 2; v. 1; note added to it by him, iii. 323, n. 2; executor, iii. 301, n. 1; ignorance of law, ii. 21, n. 4; Life of Johnson, revises, i. 7; edits later editions, i. 9, n. 3, 15; time, by his hospitality wastes, i. 5, n. 2; Chatterton’s poems, demonstrates the imposture in, iii. 50, n. 5; iv. 141, n. 1; Courtenay’s Poetical Review, mentioned in, i. 222; death, i. 15, n. 1; Flood’s lines on Johnson, iv. 424, n. 2; Garrick’s election to the Club, i. 481, n. 3; Goldsmith’s college days, i. 411; Gray’s Odes, i. 403, n. 4; Hawkins, describes, i. 28, n. 1; Hawkesworth’s death, v. 282, n. 2; hospitality, elegant, iv. 141; Johnson’s bargain with the booksellers, iii. 111, n. 1; conversation, iv. 184, n. 2; epitaph, iv. 444; interpretation of two passages in Hamlet, iii. 5 n. 2; letters to him, iv. 141; ‘seldom started a subject,’ iii. 307, n. 2; severe sayings, iv. 341; solitary, finds, iv. 218, n. 1; tribute to, i. 9, n. 2; iv. 142; witticism, fathers on Foote, ii. 410, n. 1; Johnsonianissimus, i. 7, n. 2; Literary Club, a member of the, i. 479; iv. 326; Milton’s imagination of cheerful sensations, iv. 42, n. 6; ‘one of the best critics of our age,’ i. 180, n. 1; v. 78, n. 5, 361, n. 1, 399, n. 4; Parnell’s Hermit, explains a passage in, iii. 393, n. 1; Piozzi’s, Mrs., Anecdotes, criticises, iv. 341; Prologue to Julia, i. 262, n. 1; Reynolds’s executor, iv. 133; Reynolds’s plan for monuments in St. Paul’s, iv. 423, n. 2; Shakespeare, edits, i. 8; iv. 142; v. 2; Walpole’s, Sir R., reading, v. 93, n. 4; mentioned, iii. 305; iv. 344, 418. MALPAS, iv. 300, n. 2. MALPLAQUET, Battle of, ii. 183, n. 1. MALTBY, Mr., i. 247, n. 3; iii. 201, n. 3. MALTE, Chevalier de, story of a, v. 107. MALTON, an inn-keeper, iii. 209. MAMHEAD, i. 436, n. 3; ii. 371. MAN, composite animal, iv. 91; defined, iii. 245; v. 32, n. 3; not a machine, v. 117; not good by nature, v. 211; pourtrayed by Shakespeare and Milton, iv. 72. See MANKIND. Man of Feeling, i. 360. Man of the World, i. 360, n. 2; v. 277. Managed horse, v. 253, n. 2. MANAGERS OF THEATRES, i. 196, n. 2. MANCHESTER, iii. 123, 127, 135, n. 1; Whitaker’s History, iii. 333. MANDEVILLE, Bernard, Johnson influenced by him, iii. 56, n. 2, 292, n. 3; ‘private vices public benefits,’ iii. 56, n. 2, 291-3; mentioned, i. 359, n. 3. MANDOA, ii. 176. Manège for Oxford, ii. 424. MANILLA RANSOM, ii. 135. MANKIND, Burke thinks better of them, iii. 236; Johnson finds them less just and more beneficent, ib.; opinions of Bolingbroke, Oxford, and Pitt, ib., n. 3; of Savage, iii. 237, n. l; characterless for the most part, iii. 280, n. 3; hostility one to the other, iii. 236, n. 4; kindness, wonderful, iii. 236, 237, n. 1. See MAN and WORLD. MANLEY, Mrs., iv. 199, 200, n. 1. MANN, Sir Horace, i. 279, n. 5. MANNERS, change in them, v. 59-61, 230; elegance acquired imperceptibly, iii. 53; great, of the, iii. 353; history of them, v. 79; words describing them soon require notes, ii. 212. Manners, a poem, i. 125. MANNING, Owen, ii. 17. MANNING, Mr., a compositor, iv. 321. MANNINGHAM, Dr., iii. 161. MANOR, a, co-extensive with the parish, ii. 243. MANSFIELD, William Murray, first Earl of, Adams the architects, patronises, ii. 325, n. 3; air and manner, ii. 318; Americans, approves of burning the houses of the, iii. 429, n. 1; Baretti’s trial, ii. 97, n. 1; believing half of what a man says, iv. 178; Carre’s Sermons, praises, v. 28; confined to his Court, iii. 269; copy-right case, judgment in the, i. 437, n. 2; Douglas Cause, ii. 230, n. 1, 475; educated in England, ii. 194; Horne Tooke’s trial, iii. 354, n. 3; Garrick, flatters, ii. 227; Generals and Admirals, compared with, iii. 265; Gordon Riots, his house burnt in the, iii. 428-9; Gordon’s, Lord George, trial, iii. 427, n. 1; Johnson’s definition of excise, i. 294, n. 9; estimate of his intellectual power, iv. 178, n. 2; greatest man next to him, ii. 336; v. 96; Journey, praises, ii. 318; never met him, ii. 158; lawyer, a great English, v. 395; not a mere lawyer, ii. 158; liberty of the press, tries to stifle the, i. 116, n. 1; literary fame, no, iii. 182; Oxford, entrance at, ii. 194, n. 3; Pope, friend of, ii. 158; iv. 50; Pope’s lines to him, parodied by Browne, ii. 339, n. 1; popular party, hates the, iii. 120, n. 3; retirement, in, iv. 178, n. 2; Royal marriage act, drew the, ii. 152, n. 2; satires on dead kings, iii. 15. n. 3; Scotch schoolmaster’s case, ii. 186; severity, loved, iii. 120, n. 3; Shebbeare, sentences, iii. 315, n. 1. Somerset the negro, case of, iii. 87; speech on the Habeas Corpus Bill, iii. 233, n. 1; at Lord Lovat’s trial, i. 181, n. 1; Stuart’s Letters to Lord Mansfield, ii. 229, 475; Sunday levees, ii. 318; untruthfulness, ii. 296, n. 2; Warburton, gets promotion for, ii. 37, n. 1. MANT, Mr., i. 270, n. 1. Mantuanus, Johannes Baptista, iv. 182. MANUCCI, Count, ii. 390, 394; iii. 89, 91. MANUFACTURERS, defined, ii. 188, n. 5; their wages, v. 263. MANYFOLD River, iii. 188. MAPHAEUS, iii. 21, n. 1. MAR, Earl of, v. 227, n. 4. MARANA, I. P., iv. 200, n. 2. MARATHON, iii. 173, n. 3, 455; v. 334. Marc de Peau forte, ii. 396. MARCHI, —— , an engraver, iv. 421, n. 2. MARCHMONT, Hugh, fourth Earl of, Boswell calls on him, iii. 342; talks of Johnson’s definitions, iii. 343; gets particulars of Pope and Bolingbroke, iii. 344, 418; Johnson refuses to see him, iii. 344; sends him the Lives, iii. 392; calls on him, ib.; shows inattention, iv. 50; Pope’s executor, iv. 51; mentioned in Pope’s Grotto, ib.; Scotch accent, his, ii. 160. MARCUS ANTONINUS, iii. 172. MARGATE, iv. 183, n. 2. Mariamne, i. 102, n. 2. MARIE ANTOINETTE, seen by Johnson, ii. 385, 394-5. MARISCHAL, Lord, v. 200, n. 1. MARKHAM, Archbishop of York, Johnson’s bow, iv. 198, n. 2; sermon on parties, v. 36, n. 3. MARKHAM, Dr., iii. 366. MARKLAND, Jeremiah, account of him, iv. 161, n. 3; referred to, iv. 172, n. 3. MARLAY, Dean Richard, afterwards Bishop of Waterford, Deanery of Ferns, iv. 73; humour, his, iv. 73, n. 1; Johnson turned from a wolf-dog into a lap-dog, iv. 73; Literary Club, member of the, i. 479; mentioned, iv. 78. MARLBOROUGH, John, first Duke of, Bolingbroke’s allusion to him, v. 126, n. 2; calm temper, his, i. 12; epigram on him, ii. 451; hypothetical appearance to him of the devil, iv. 317, n. 3; Mallet’s projected Life, iii. 194, 386; v. 175, n. 2; officers, his, useless, v. 445; Oldfield, Dr., anecdote of, iii. 57; mentioned, ii. 182. MARLBOROUGH, Sarah, Duchess of, Addison’s dedication to her, v. 376, n. 3; Apology, i. 153; v. 175; censured by Johnson, i. 153, 333, n. 2; Johnson’s character of her, v. 175; Love in a Hollow Tree, reprints, iv. 80; her will, v. 175, n. 2. MARLBOROUGH, Charles, second Duke of, ii. 246, n. 1. MARLBOROUGH, George, third Duke of, v. 303, 459. Marmor Norfolciense, i. 141; reprinted, i. 142; praised by Pope, i. 143. MARRIAGE, advice about it, ii. 109, n. 2, 110; fortune, with women of, iii. 3; inferiors in rank, with, ii. 328; late in life, ii. 128; Lord Chancellor, might be made by the, ii. 461; love, for, iii. 3; natural to man, not, ii. 165; necessary for a man more than a woman, ii. 471; reasons for marrying, ib.; parents’ control over a daughter’s inclination, iii. 377; pretty woman, with a, iv. 131; prudence, but inclination, not from, ii. 101; prudent and virtuous most desirable, i. 382; second time, for a, ii. 76, 77, 128; service, ii. 110; society a party to the contract, iii. 25; widow, marrying a, ii. 77. MARRIAGE BILL, Royal, ii. 152, 224, n. 1. MARSEILLES, i. 340, n. 1. MARSHALL, W.H., Minutes of Agriculture, iii. 313. MARSILI, Dr., i. 322, 371. MARTIAL, Elphinston’s translation, iii. 258; Johnson’s fondness for him, i. 122, n. 4; lines translated by F. Lewis, i. 225, n. 3; quoted, v. 429, n. 2. MARTIN, M., Western Isles, Johnson read it when a child, i 450; iii. 454; v. 13; copy in the Advocates’ Library, v. 13, n. 3; quoted, v. 168, 170, 179, 209, n. 3; style bad, iii. 243; Voyage to St. Kilda, ii. 51, n. 3, 52, n. 1. MARTINE, George, v. 61. MARTINELLI, Signor, anecdote of Charles Town
shend, ii. 222; writes a History of England, ii. 220; it should not be continued to the present day, ii. 221. MARTINS, printers of Edinburgh, iii. 110. Martinus Scriblerus, Imitators of Shakespeare ridiculed, ii. 225, n. 2. See under ARBUTHNOT. MARTYRDOM, ii. 250. Martyrdom of Theodora, i. 312. MARY MAGDALEN, iv. 6. MARY, Queen of Scots, Buchanan’s verses to her, i. 460; Holyrood House, v. 43; Inch Keith, v. 55-6; inscription for her picture, ii. 270, 280, 283, 293, n. 2; Johnson reproaches the Scotch with her death, v. 40; Tytler’s Vindication, i. 354; ii. 305. MARY II, QUEEN, Johnson attacks her, i. 333, n. 2; mentions her in his definition of Revolution, i. 2 n. 1. MASENIUS, i. 229. MASON, Rev. William, Akenside, inferior to, iii. 32; Caractacus, ii. 335; Colman’s Odes to Obscurity, ridiculed in, ii. 334; ‘cool Mason,’ ii. 334; Elfrida, ii. 335; Goldsmith speaks of his ‘formal school,’ i. 404, n. 1; Gray’s Ode on Vicissitude, adds to, iv. 138, n. 4; v. 424; Heroick Epistle, ascribed to Walpole, iv. 315; Chambers’s Dissertation on Oriental Gardening ridiculed in it, iv. 60, n. 7; v. 186; Goldsmith reads it to Johnson, iv. 113; quotations from it, ‘Here, too, O King of vengeance,’ &c., v. 186; ‘So when some John,’ &c., iii. 272, n. 2; ‘Who breathe the sweets,’ &c., iv. 113, n. 3; mentioned, i. 388, n. 3; Johnson’s works, did not taste, ii. 335; Memoirs of Gray, Boswell’s model in his Life of Johnson, i. 29; its excellence shown, i. 31, n. 3; Johnson ‘found it mighty dull,’ iii. 31; praises Gray’s letters, ib., n. 1; Temple’s character of Gray adopted in it, ii. 316; Memoirs of W. Whitehead, i. 31; Murray, the bookseller, prosecutes, iii. 294; Prig and Whig, a, iii. 294; Sherlock, Rev. Martin, mentions the, iv. 320, n. 4; mentioned, iv. 298, n. 3. MASON, Mrs. (afterwards Lady Macclesfield and Mrs. Brett). See under MACCLESFIELD, Countess of. MASQUERADES, ii. 205. MASS, Idolatry of the, ii. 105. MASS-HOUSE, iii. 429, n. 2. MASSES FOR THE DEAD, ii. 105. MASSILLON, v. 88, 311. MASSINGER, Philip, The Picture, iii. 406. MASSINGHAM, iv. 134. MASTERS, Mrs., i. 242; iv. 246. MATERIALISM, ii. 150. MATHEMATICS, all men equally capable of attaining them, ii. 437; Goldsmith’s low opinion of them, i, 411, n. 3. MATHIAS, Mr., iv. 89. MATLOCK, v. 430. Matrimonial Thought, a, ii. 110. MATTER, non-existence of, i. 471. MATTHEW PARIS, iv. 310, n. 3. MATY, Dr. Matthew, Bibliotheque Britannique, i. 284; Johnson’s Dictionary, reviews, i. 284, n. 3; ‘little black dog,’ i. 284; Memoirs of Chesterfield, iv. 102, n. 4. MAUPERTUIS, ii. 54. MAURICE, Rev. F. D., ii. 122, n. 6. MAURICE, Thomas, Poems and Miscellaneous Pieces, iii. 370, n. 2. MAWBEY, Sir Joseph, iii. 82, n. 2. MAXWELL, Rev. Dr., Collectanea of Johnson, ii. 116-133. MAYO, Rev. Dr., dines at Mr. Dilly’s in 1773, ii. 247-255; in 1778, iii. 284-300; in 1784, iv. 330; freedom of the will, on the, iii. 290; liberty of conscience, ii. 249-252; ‘Literary Anvil,’ called the, ii. 252, n. 2. MAYO, Mrs., sutile pictures, her, iii. 284, n. 4. MAYOR, Professor J.E.B., iv. 229, n. 2. MAYORS OF LONDON, election, iii. 356, 459. MEAD, Dr., account of him, iii. 355, n. 2; Johnson writes Dr. James’s dedication to him, i. 159; lived in the broad sunshine of life, iii. 355; on the needful quantity of sleep, iii. 169. MEALS, regular, iii. 305. Medea, at the Opera-house, iii. 91, n. 2. MEDICATED BATHS, ii. 99. MEDICINE, medical knowledge from abroad, i. 367. See under JOHNSON, physic. Meditation on a Pudding, v. 352. MEDITERRANEAN, The, grand object of travelling, iii. 36, 456; subject for a poem, iii. 36. MEEKE, Rev. Mr., i. 272, 274. MELANCHOLY, acuteness not a proof of, iii. 87; constitutional, v. 381; foolish to indulge it, iii. 135; madness, allied to, iii. 175; remedies against it, ‘Be not solitary, be not idle,’ iii. 415; employment and hardships, iii. 176, 180, 368; exercise, i. 64, 446; hidden, should be, iii. 368, 421; moderation in eating and drinking, i. 446; iii. 5; occupation of the mind and society, i. 446; ii. 423; iii. 5; thinking it down madness, ii. 440; retreats for the mind, as many as possible, ib.; some men free from it, iii. 5. See BOSWELL, hypochondria, and JOHNSON, melancholy. MELANCHTHON, Boswell’s letter from his tomb, ii. 3, n. 1; iii. 118, 122, n. 2; punctuality, his, i. 32; ‘the old religion,’ ii. 105; iii. 122, n. 2. MELCHISEDEC, an authority on the law of entail, ii. 414, n. 2; Warburton’s reply to Lowth’s version of his story, v. 423. MELMOTH, William (Pliny), at Bath, iii. 422; belief in a particular Providence, iv. 272, n. 4; Fitzosborne’s Letters, iii. 424; reduced to whistle, ib. MELTING-DAYS, ii. 337. MELVILLE, Viscount. See under DUNDAS, Henry. MEMIS, Dr., a litigious physician, ii. 291, 296; iii. 95, 101; Johnson’s argument in his case, ii. 372. Memoirs of Frederick III [II], King of Prussia, i. 308. Memoirs of Miss Sydney Biddulph, i. 358, n. 4, 389. Memoirs of Scriblerus. See ARBUTHNOT. Memorials of Westminster Abbey. See STANLEY, DEAN. MEMORY, art of attention, iv. 126, n. 6; failure of it, iii. 191; morbid oblivion, v. 68; remembering and recollecting distinguished, iv. 126; scenes improve by it, v. 333; tricks played by it, v. 68. See under JOHNSON, memory. MEN, have the upper hand of women, iii. 52. See MANKIND. MÉNAGE, Gilles, Bayle’s character of him, iv. 428, n. 2; Menagiana, epigram on the Molinists and the Jansenists, iii. 341, n. 1; puns on corps and fort, ii. 241; Queen of France and the hour, iii. 322, n. 3. MENANDER, quoted, iii. 9, n. 3. MENTAL DISEASES. See MELANCHOLY. MENZIES, Mr., of Culdares, v. 394. MERCHANTS, Addison’s Sir Andrew Freeport, v. 328; Chatham praises fair merchants, v. 327, n. 4; compared with Scotch landlords, i. 409; munificence in spending, iv. 4; ‘a new species of gentleman,’ i. 491, n. 3. Mercheta Mulierum, v. 320. MERCIER, L.S., ii. 366, n. 2. MERIT, weighed against money, i. 440-3; men of merit, iv. 172. MERRIMENT, scheme of it hopeless, i. 331, n. 5. .Messiah, Johnson’s Latin version of Pope’s, i. 61. METAPHORS, their excellence, iii. 174; inaccuracy, iv. 386, n. 1. Metaphysical defined, ii. 259, n. 3. METAPHYSICAL POETS, iv. 38. METAPHYSICAL TAILOR, a, iii. 443; iv. 187. METAPHYSICS, Burke’s inaptitude for them, i. 472, n. 2; Johnson fond of them, i. 70; withheld from studying them, v. 109, n. 3. METASTASIO, iii. 162, n. 4. METCALFE, Philip, described by Miss Burney, iv. 159, n. 2; Johnson’s charity, anecdote of, iv. 132; with him at Brighton, ii. 133, n. 1; iv. 159-60; Reynolds’s executor, iv. 159, n. 2; Round-Robin, signs the, iii. 83, n. 3. METHOD, life to be thrown into a, iii. 94. METHODISTS, bitterness, their, v. 392; cannot explain their excellence, v. 392; Cock Lane Ghost, adopt the, i. 407, n. 1; convicts, effects on, iv. 329; Dodd’s Address, offended by, iii. 121; Johnson consulted by two young women, ii. 120; Humphry Clinker, mentioned in, ii. 123, n. 2; Hypocrite, The, ii. 321; inward light, ii. 126; Moravians, quarrel with the, iii. 122, n. 1; origin of the name, i. 458, n. 3; Oxford, expulsion of six from, ii. 187; rise of the sect, i. 68, n. 1; sincere, how far, ii. 123; success in preaching, i. 458; ii. 123; v. 391-2; term of reproach, i. 458, n. 3; Wales, in, v. 451. METTERNICH, Prince, iv. 27, n. 1. MEYER, Dr., ii. 253, n. 2. MEYNELL, ‘old,’ Johnson intimate with his family, i. 82; saying about foreigners, i. 115, n. 1; iv. 15; about London, iii. 379. MEYNELL, Miss (Mrs. Fitzherbert), i. 83. MICKLE, William Julius, account of him, ii. 182, n. 3; Boswell and Johnson dine with him at Wheatley, iv. 308; Cumnor Hall and Sir Walter Scott, v. 349, n. 1; Garrick, quarrel with, ii. 182, n. 3; v. 349, n. 1; Johnson, never had a rough word from, iv. 250; Lusiad, The, ii. 182; dispute with Johnson about it, iv. 250; mentioned, iii. 37. MICROSCOPES, ii. 38. MICYLLUS, v. 430. MIDDLE AGES, iv. 133, 170. MIDDLE CLASS, absence of it abroad, ii. 402, n. 1; in France, ii. 394, 402; in Scotland, ib., n. 1; happy in England, ii. 402. MIDDLE STATE after death, i. 240; ii. 105; v. 356. MIDDLESEX, Earl of, i. 367. MIDDLESEX, Under-sheriff and Dr. Shebbeare, iii. 315, n. 1. MIDDLESEX Election, Boswell’s difference with Johnson, iii. 221; Johnson’s discussion with Lord Newhaven, iii. 408; False Alarm, i. 134; ii. 111; Patriot, ii. 286; petitions, ii. 103; Townshend refuses to pay the land-tax, iii. 460. MIDDLETON, Lady Diana, v. 97, n. 5. MIDDLEWICH, v. 432. MIDGELEY, Dr., iv. 200. MIGRATION of birds, ii. 55, 248. MILITARY character and life. See SOLDIERS. Military Dictionary, i. 138. MILITARY spirit, injured by trade, ii. 218. MILITIA BILL of 1756, i. 36, n. 4; 307, n. 4; ii. 321, n. 4; Act of 1757, iii. 360, n. 3; for Scotch Militia Bill: See under SCOTLAND; drillings in 1778, iii. 360, 365, n. 4; Scotch officers of Militia, iii. 399, n. 2. ‘MILKING the bull,’ i. 444. MILL, James, birth, v. 75, n. 2; in the East India House, ii.
289, n. 2; likeness to Johnson, iv. III, n. 3. MILL, John Stuart, difference in pay of men and women, on the, ii. 217, n. 1; in the East India House, ii. 289, n. 2; precocity, i. 148, n. 1; teaching, old and new systems of, ii. 146, n. 4. MILLAR, Andrew, the bookseller, account of him, i. 287, n. 3; Hume’s History of England, publishes, v. 31, n. 1; Johnson’s Dictionary, one of the proprietors of, i. 183; Robertson’s Scotland, publishes, iii. 334; ‘thanks God,’ i. 287; mentioned, i. 243, 303, n. 1. MILLER, Sir John, ii. 338; iii. 68. MILLER, John, printer of the Evening Post, iv. 140, n. 1. MILLER, Lady, ii. 336. MILLER, Philip, v. 78, n. 3, 456, n. 2. MILLER, Professor John, v. 369, n. 5. MILMAN, Dean, iv. 202, n. 1. MILNER, Joseph, i. 458, n. 3. MILTON, John, Adam, description of, iv. 72, n. 3; Areopagitica, ii. 60, n. 3; blank verse, iv. 42-3; puzzles a shepherd, iv. 43, n. 1; Boccage’s translation, iv. 331, n. 1; books, few called for in his time, iv. 217, n. 4; borrows out of pride, v. 92, n. 4; Boswell, a wonder to, iv. 42; Malone’s explanation, ib., n. 6; character, equal to his, ii. 257, n. 1; confidence in himself, i. 199, n. 3; college exercises, i. 60, n. 6; condescension in writing for children, ii. 408, n. 3; disdainful of help or hindrance, i. 131, n. 2; Dryden’s lines on him: ii. 336; v. 86; early manuscripts, i. 204, n. 1; iv. 184, n. 1; education, ‘wonders’ in, ii. 407, n. 5; frugality of a commonwealth, iii. 292, n. 3; giant among the pigmies, iv. 19, n. 2; grand-daughter, benefit for his, i. 227; Johnson writes the Prologue, ib.; recommends a subscription for her, i. 230; habitations, i. 111; iii. 405; Johnson’s abhorrence of his political principles, i. 227; iv. 41-2; admiration of his blank verse, iv. 42, n. 7; blazon of his excellence, iv. 40; does him ‘illustrious justice,’ i. 227, 230-1; criticises minor poems, iv. 99, n. i, 305; Samson Agonistes, i. 231, n. 2; earlier and later estimates of him, ii. 239; supposed enmity to him, i. 230; ii. 239, n. 2; iv. 64; Lauder’s imposition, i. 229; Lawrence, Dr., descended from ‘Lawrence of virtuous father virtuous son,’ ii. 296, n. 1; Life, by Johnson, iv. 40-4; monument in Westminster Abbey, i. 227, n. 4; one suggested in St. Paul’s, ii. 239; ‘Milton, Mr. John,’ iv. 325; Milton no Plagiary, i. 229, n. 1; Paradise Lost, the war of Heaven, ii. 239, n. 3; Phidias, a, iv. 99, n. 1; public prayers omitted, i. 67, n. 2, 418, n. 1; schoolmaster, i. 85, n. 2, 97, n. 2; ii. 407, n. 5; shoe-latchets, wore, v. 19; style, distinguished by his, iii. 280; ‘thinking in him,’ ii. 239; Tractate on Education, iii. 358; quotations — Allegro, 1. 49, iii. 159, n. 2; l. 118, i. 130; — 1. 134, i. 387; Lycidas, 1. 156, v. 282, n. 1; Paradise Lost (i. 263), iii. 326, n. 3; (i. 596), iii. 363, n. 1; (ii. 94, 146), iii. 296, n. 1; (ii. 146), iv. 399, n. 6; (ii. 561), i. 82, n. 2; (ii. 846), iv. 273, n. 1, v. 48, n. 1; (iv. 35), iv. 304, n. 2; (iv. 343), iv. 305, n. 2; (v. 353), iv. 27, n. 6; (vii. 26), iv. 42, n. 1; (x. 743), iii. 53, n. 3; Penseroso, 1. 63, i. 323, n. 4; Sonnets, xxi., iv. 254, n. 5. MIMICRY, ii. 154. MIND, management of it, ii. 440; mechanical, looked at as, v. 35; physician’s art useless to one not at ease, iii. 164; putting one’s whole mind to an object, ii. 472; retreats for it, ii. 440. See WEATHER. MINISTERS of the Church, popular election of, ii. 244. MINISTRIES, attempt at silence in the House of Commons, iii. 235; concessions to the people, ii. 353; iii. 3; list of ministries from 1770-1784, iv. 170, n. 1; Lord North’s ministry, its duration, iv. 170, n. 1; (1771) contest with the City, iv. 140, n. 1; (1773) much enfeebled, ii. 208; want of power, v. 57; (1774) feeble, iv. 69; (1775) merit not rewarded, ii. 352; neither stable nor grateful, ii. 348; feeble and timid, ii. 355; too little power, ii. 352; (1776) ‘timidity of our scoundrels,’ iii. 1; imbecility, iii. 46, ib., n. 5; ministers asked to the Lord Mayor’s feast for the first time for seven years, iii. 460; (1778) ‘now there is no power,’ iii. 356; (1779) Johnson has no delight in talking of public affairs, iii. 408; Horace Walpole’s account, ib., n. 4; (1780), afraid to repress persecution of Papists in Scotland, iii. 427, n. 1; feebleness at the Gordon Riots, iii. 430; (1781), Johnson against it, iv. 81, 100; gives thanks for its dissolution, iv. 139; bunch of imbecility, ib.; successors could hardly do worse, iv. 140, n. 3; timidity, iv. 200; struggles between two sets of ministers in 1784, iv. 260, n. 2. MINORCA, ii. 176; iii. 246. ‘Mira cano,’ iii. 304. MIRABEAU, ‘dramatised his death,’ v. 397, n. 1; his motion about Corsica, ii. 71, n. 1. MIRACLES, i. 444; iii. 188. Mirror, The, iv. 390. MIRTH, the measure of a man’s understanding, ii. 378, n. 2. Miscellaneous and Fugitive Pieces by the Authour of the Rambler, ii. 270. Miscellaneous Observations on the Tragedy of Macbeth, published 1745, i. 175; praised by Warburton, i. 176; criticism on Hanmer, i. 178. MISDEMEANOUR, defined, iii. 214. Misella, i. 223. MISERS, contemptible philosophically, v. 112; few in England, v. 112; must be miserable, iii. 322; no man born a miser, iii. 322. MISERY, balance of misery, iv. 300; ‘doom of man,’ iii. 198; hypocrisy of misery, iv. 71; misery of want, iii. 26. MISFORTUNES, talking of one’s, iv. 31. Miss, a, v. 185, n. 1. MISSIONARIES, sanguine and untrustworthy, v. 391. MISTRESSES, i. 381. MITCHELL, Mr., English Minister at Berlin, iii. 463, n. 2. MITCHELL, a tradesman, i. 238, n. 2. MOB rule, iii. 383. See RIOTS. Modern Characters from Shakespeare, iii. 255. Modern Characters from the Classics, iii. 279. MODERN TIMES, better than ancient, iv. 217; v. 77. MODERNISING an author, iv. 315. MODESTY, how far natural, iii. 352. Modus, i. 283; iii. 323. MOLIÈRE, Avare, v. 277; goes round the world, v. 311; Misanthrope, iii. 373, n. 4. MOLINISTS, iii. 341, n. 1. MOLTZER, Jacques, v. 430, n. 2. MONARCHY, iii. 46. MONASTERIES, austerities treated of in Rambler and Idler, ii. 435; bodily labour wanted, ii. 390; Carthusian, unreasonableness of becoming a, ii. 435; their silence absurd, ib.; Johnson curious to see them, i. 365; saying to a Lady Abbess, ii. 435; men enter them who cannot govern themselves, i. 365; ii. 24; monastic morality, iii. 292; when allowable, ii. 10; unfit for the young, v. 62. MONBODDO, Lord (James Burnet), account of him, ii. 74, n. 1; v. 77; air bath, his, iii. 168; ancestors, superiority of our, v. 77; Boswell, letter from, v. 74; Condamine’s Savage Girl, v. 110; copyright, v. 72; Dictionary-makers, i 296, n. 3; Egyptians, ancient, iv. 125; Elzevir Johnson, an, ii. 189, n. 2; v. 74, n. 3; enthusiastical farmer, v. 78, 111; Erse writings, ii. 380-1, 383; Farmer Burnet, v. 77, 111; Gory, his black servant, v. 82; helping him downhill, v. 242; Home’s Douglas better than Shakespeare, v. 362, n. 1; ‘humour, incolumi gravitate,’ v. 375; Johnson’s Journey, receives a copy of, iii. 102; meets, in Edinburgh, v. 394; in London, iv. 273; no love for, ii. 74, n. 1; ib., n. 2; iv. 273, n. 1; v. 74; pleased with him, v. 83; style, criticised, iii. 173; visits him, iv. 273, n. 1; v. 74, 77-83, 377; Judge a posteriori, v. 45; Knight the negro, case of, iii. 213; ‘Monny,’ iv. 273, n. 1; ‘nation,’ his, ii. 219; Origin and Progress of Language, ii. 74, n. 1; 259, n. 5; Ouran-Outang, capabilities of the, v. 46, 248; primitive state of human nature, ii. 259; savage life, admiration of, ii. 74, 147; v. 81; son, his, v. 81; tail, theory of the, v. 45, iii., 330; talked nonsense, ii. 74; v. 111; mentioned, ii. 53, n. 1; iii. 126, 129; iv. 1, n. 1. MONCKTON, Hon. Mary (Countess of Cork), account of her, iv. 108 n. 4; Boswell gets drunk in her house, iv. 109; sends her verses, iv. 110, n. 1; Johnson at her assembly, iv. 156, n. 1; calls her a dunce, iv. 109; promises her to go and see Mrs. Siddons, ii. 324, n. 2; iv. 242, n. 3. MONEY, abilities needed in getting it, iii. 382; advantages that it can give, iv. 14, 126, 152; arguments against it, i. 441; awkwardness in counting it, iv. 27; change in its value, v. 321, n. 1; circulating, happiness produced by its, ii. 429; iii. 177, 249, 292, nn. 2 and 3; conveniences where it is plentiful, v. 61; country, keeping it in the, ii. 428-9; domestic satisfaction, laid out on, ii. 352; economy in its use, iii. 265; enjoyed, should be early, ii. 226; excludes but one evil — poverty, iii. 160; getting it not all a man’s business, iii. 182; gives nothing extraordinary, iv. 126; hoarded, iv. 173; increase of it breaks down subordination, iii. 262; increase of it in one nation impoverishes another, ii. 430; influence, gives, v. 112; influence of loans, ii. 167; iv. 222; influence by patronising young men, ii. 167; ‘insolence of wealth,’ iii. 316; interest, iii. 340; investments, iv. 164; ‘make money,’ iii. 196; money-getting defended, ii. 323; iv. 126; occupation, purchases, iii. 180; r
espect gained by it, ii. 153; save and spend, happiest those who, iii. 322; spending it better than giving it, iii. 56; iv. 173; trade, not increased by, ii. 98; travelling, difficulties of, when there was little money, iii. 177; writing for it, iii. 19. See DEBTS. MONKS. See MONASTERIES. MONKS OF MEDMENHAM ABBEY, i. 125, n. 1. MONMOUTH, Duke of, v. 357. MONNOYE, De La, iii. 322, n. 3. MONRO, Dr., iv. 263-4. MONTACUTE, Lords, iv. 160. MONTAGU, Edward, iii. 408, n. 3. MONTAGU, Lady Wortley, contempt for Richardson, iv. 117, n. 1. MONTAGU, Mrs., account of her writings, ii. 88, n. 3; air and manner, iii. 244, n. 2; Barry’s picture, in, iv. 224, n. 1; Bath, at, iii. 422-4; benevolence, her, iii. 48, n. 1; Boswell excluded from her house, iv. 64; character by Miss Burney, iii. 48, n. 1, 244, n. 2; iv. 275, n. 3; by Johnson and Mrs. Thrale, ib.; Cumberland’s Feast of Reason, described in, iv. 64; Garrick, praises, v. 245; Essay on Shakespeare, ii. 88; iv. 16, n. 2; v. 245; Boswell’s controversy with Mrs. Piozzi about it, ib., n. 2; house, her new, iv. 64, n. 1, 65, n. 1; ill, iii. 434; Johnson, drops, iv. 73; gives her a catalogue of De Foe’s works, iii. 267; high praise of her, iv. 275; letters to her: See JOHNSON, letters; ‘not highly gratified; ii. 130; quarrels with, iii. 425, n. 3; war with him, iv. 64, 65, n. 1; reconciled, iv. 65, n. 1, 239, n. 4; the support of her assemblies, iv. 64, n. 1; lived to a great age, iv. 275, n. 3; Lyttelton, Lord, friendship with, iv. 64; Mounsey, Dr., mentions, ii. 64, n. 2; par pluribus, iii. 424; portrait by Miss Reynolds, iii. 244; pretence to learning, iii. 244; Shakespeare, patronises, ii. 92, n. 3; trembles for him, ii. 89; Stillingfleet’s blue stockings, iv. 108, n. 2; Williams, Mrs., pensions, iii. 48, n. 1; iv. 65, n. 1; wits, among the, iv. 103, n. 1. MONTAGUE, Basil, son of Lord Sandwich, iii. 383, n. 3. MONTAGUE, Frederic, moves to abolish the fast of Jan. 30, ii. 152, n. 1. MONTAIGNE, on wise men playing the fool, i. 3, n. 2. MONTESQUIEU, Esprit des Lois, Helvetius advises against its publication, v. 42, n. 1; on the abolition of torture, i. 467, n. 1; influence on Hume, ii. 53, n. 2; Lettres Persanes, iii. 291, n. 1; quotes the practice of unknown countries, v. 209. MONTGOMERIE, Margaret (Mrs. Boswell). See BOSWELL, Mrs. MONTGOMERY, Colonel, v. 149. Monthly Review, Badcock’s correspondence, iv. 443, n. 5; Griffiths, owned by, iii. 30, n. 1, 32, n. 2; hostile to the Church, ii. 40, iii. 32; payment to writers, iv. 214, n. 2; price of a fourth share, iii. 32, n. 2; Smollett, attack on, iii. 32, n. 2; written by duller men than the Critical Reviewers, iii. 32. MONTROSE, second Duke of, Boswell gets drunk at his house, iv. 109; shot a highwayman, iii. 240, n. 1; mentioned, v. 359, n. 1. MONTROSE, third Duke of. See GRAHAM, Marquis of. MONTROSE, first Marquis of, letters to the Laird of Col, v. 298-9; his execution, v. 298, n. 1. MONTROSE, House of, iii. 382. MONUMENTS IN ST. PAUL’S CATHEDRAL, ii. 239; iv. 423, n. 2. MONVILLE, Mr., ii. 390, 391. MOODY, the player, clapped on the back by Tom Davies, ii. 344; mentioned, ii. 340, 342. MOON, twenty-sixth day of the new, iv. 30. MOOR, Dr., Professor of Greek at Glasgow, iii. 39, n. 2. MOORE, Edward, account of him, iii. 424, n. 1; edits The World, i. 202, n. 4, 257, n. 3. MOORE, Dr. John, confounded with Edward Moore, iii. 424, n. 1; describes the streets of Paris, ii. 394, n. 3; meets Johnson at Mr. Hoole’s, iv. 281, n. 3. MOORE, Rev. Mr., Ordinary of Newgate, iv. 329, n. 3. MOORE, Thomas, lines on Sheridan’s funeral, i. 227, n. 4. MOORS OF BARBARY, ii. 391. MORALITY, substitution for it when violated, ii. 129. MORAVIANS, intimate with Johnson, iv. 410; missions, v. 391; quarrel with the Methodists, iii. 122, n. 1. MORAY, Bishop of, v. 114, n. 2. MORE, Hannah, Bas Bleu, iii. 293, n. 5; iv. 108; boarding-school, kept a, iv. 341, n. 5; books found guilty of popery, iii. 427, n. 1; Boswell’s tenderness for Johnson’s failings, beseeches, i. 30, n. 4; Boswell’s and Garrick’s imitation of Johnson, ii. 326, n. 1; Covent-Garden mob, iv. 279, n. 2; dates, indifferent to, iv. 88, n. 1; Fox, describes, iv. 292, n. 3; Garrick’s death and the Literary Club, i. 481, n. 3; explanation of Johnson’s harshness, iii. 184, n. 5; flatters, iii. 293; and Mrs. Garrick, friendship with, iii. 293, n. 4; Garrick’s, Mrs., ‘Chaplain,’ iv. 96; George III and Hutton the Moravian, iv. 410, n. 6; Henderson, John, of Pembroke College, iv. 298, n. 2; hides her face, iv. 99; Home’s Douglas, v. 362, n. 1; Johnson brilliant and good-humoured, iii. 260, n. 5; criticism of Milton, iv. 99, n. 1, 305; death an era in literature, iv. 421, n. 1; finds her reading Pascal, iv. 88, n. 1; flatters, iii. 293; iv. 341; flattered by him, iii. 293, n. 5; iv. 341, n. 6; and George III, ii. 42, n. 2; health in 1782, iv. 149, n. 3; 1783, iv. 220, n. 3; in Grosvenor Square iv. 72, n. 1; introduced to, iv. 341, n. 6; Journey, sale of, ii. 310, n. 2; likens her to Hannibal, iv. 149, n. 3; praises her, iv. 275; and Macbeth’s heath, v. 115, n. 3; ‘mild radiance of the setting sun,’ iv. 220; prayer for Dr. Brocklesby, iv. 414, n. 3; regret that he had no profession, iii. 309, n. 1; shows her Pembroke College, i. 75, n. 5; iv. 151, n. 2; and The Siege of Sinope, iii. 259, n. 1; Kennicott, Dr., ii. 128, n. 1; Kennicott, Mrs., iv. 285, n. 1; Langton’s devotion to Johnson, iv. 266, n. 3; Leonidas Glover and Horace Walpole, v. 116, n. 4; lived to a great age, iv. 275; n. 3; Monboddo, Lord, v. 77, n. 2; Nine, iv. 96, n. 3; Paoli’s mixture of languages, ii. 81, n. 3; Percy, tragedy of, iii. 293, n. 4; respectable, use of the term, iii. 241, n. 2; scarlet dress in a court-mourning, iv. 325, n. 2; Sensibility, iv. 151, n. 2; Shipley’s, Bishop, assembly, iv. 75, n. 3; Thrale’s death, iv. 84, n. 3; Tom Jones, reads, ii. 174, n. 2; Vesey’s, Mrs., parties, iii. 424, n. 3; Williams, Miss, i. 232, n. 1; mentioned, iii. 256. MORE, Dr. Henry, Divine Dialogues, v. 294; a visionary, ii. 162. MORE, Rorie. See MACLEOD, Sir Roderick. MORE, Sir Thomas, death, not deserted by his mirth in, v. 397, n. 1; epigram on him, v. 430; manuscripts in the Bodleian, i. 290; Utopia quoted, iii. 202, n. 3. More, Celtic for great, ii. 267, n. 2; v. 208. MORELL, Dr. Thomas, v. 350. MORELLET, Abbé, ii. 60, n. 4. MORÉRI’S Dictionary, v. 311. MORGAGNI, ii. 55. MORGANN, Maurice, anecdotes of Johnson, iv. 192; Essay on Falstaff, iv. 192. Morning Chronicle, iv. 149, 150, n. 2. Morning Post, iv. 296, n. 3. MORRIS, Corbyn, iv. 105, n. 4. MORRIS, Miss, iv. 417. MORRIS, Mr. Secretary, ii. 274, n. 7. MORRISON, Mr. Alfred, Collection of Autographs, Johnson’s letter to Ryland, iv. 369, n. 3; to Taylor, ii. 468, n. 2; iv. 139, n. 4; Johnson’s receipt for payment for the Lives, iv. 35, n. 3. MORRISON, Kenneth, v. 284. MORTIMER, Dr., Rector of Lincoln College, Oxford, ii. 268, n. 2. MOSAICAL CHRONOLOGY, i. 366. MOSER, Mr., Keeper of the Royal Academy, ii. 257, n. 2; iv. 227. MOSES, Brydone’s antimosaical remark, ii. 467; evidence required from him by Pharoah, ii. 150; Song of Moses paraphrased, v. 265. MOSS, Dr., iv. 73. MOTIVES, i. 397. MOTTEUX, Mr., ii. 398. MOUNSEY, Dr., account of him, ii. 64, n. 2; Johnson vehement against him, ii. 64. MOUNT EDGECUMBE, ii. 227, n. 2; v. 1O2. MOUNTAINOUS REGIONS, iii. 455. MOUNTSTUART, Lord (second Earl of Bute), Boswell’s dedication to him, ii. 20, n. 4, 23; friendship with him, iv. 128; v. 58; embassy to Turin, iii. 411; Scotch Militia bill, ii. 431; iii. 1; mentioned, i. 375, 380; iii. 91-2. Mourning Bride. See under CONGREVE, William. Mouse’s likeness, v. 39, n. 2. Muddy, ii. 362, 460. MUDGE, Colonel William, i. 378, n. 2. MUDGE, Dr. John, i. 378; letter from Johnson, iv. 240. MUDGE, Mr., i. 486. MUDGE, Rev. Zachariah, death, iv. 77, n. 3; ‘idolised in the west,’ i. 378; Johnson’s character of him, iv. 76-7; Sermons, iv. 77, 98. MUFFINS, buttered, iii. 384. MUIR, a Scotch advocate, transported for sedition, i. 467, n. 1; iv. 125, n. 2. MULGRAVE, second Baron, i, 116, n. 1; iii. 8; v. 362, n. 1. MULLER, Mr., of Woolwich Academy, i. 351, n. 1. MULSO, Miss. See CHAPONE, Mrs. MUMMIES, iv. 125. MUNSTER, Bishop of, iii. 330, n. 1. MURCHISON, —— , a factor, v. 141, 146. MURDER, prescription of, v. 24, 87. MURDOCH, Dr., Life of Thomson, iii. 117, 133, 359. MURISON, Principal, v. 63-4. MURPHY, Arthur, account of him, i. 356, n. 2; Ben Jonson’s Fall of Mortimer, iii. 78, n. 4; Boswell’s introduction to Johnson, i. 391, n. 4; Campbell’s Diary, mentioned in, ii. 338, n. 2; counsel in the Copyright Case, ii. 273; Davies’s stories, perhaps the subject of one of, iii. 40, n. 3; Elements of Criticism, ii. 90; Epilogue to Irene, mistaken about the, i. 197, n. 4; Essex Head Club, member of the, iv. 254, 438; Euphrasia, v. 103, n. 1; False Delicacy, ii. 48, n. 2; Foote’s Life, ought to write, iii. 185, n. 1; Garrick, controversy with, i. 327,
n. 1; description of a dinner at his house, ii. 155, n. 2; of his funeral, iv. 208, n. 1; sarcasm against him, ii. 349, n. 6; Gray’s Inn Journal, i. 309, 328, 356; inaccuracy about a visit to Oxford, iv. 233, n. 3; Johnson, account of his introduction to, i. 268, n. 4, 356; apologises to, for repeating some oaths, ii. 338, n. 2; iii. 40; an ardent friend, iv. 344, n. 2; colloquial Latin, ii. 125, n. 5; contempt of Garrick’s acting, ii. 92, n. 4; Debates, i. 504; degree of Doctor, i. 488, n. 3; desire of life, iv. 418, n. 1; desire for reconciliation, ii. 256, n. 1; dread of death, iv. 399, n. 6; and Garrick introduced to the Thrales, i. 493; levee, attends, ii. 118; life in Johnson’s Court, ii. 5. n. 1; love for him, ii. 127; pension, i. 374-5; praises him as a dramatic writer, ii. 127; sorrow for Garrick’s death, iii. 371, n. 1; proposal to write his Life, ib.; style, i. 221, n. 4; and Thurlow, iv. 327, n. 4; will, not in, iv. 402, n. 2; wit and humour, ii. 262, n. 2; Mason’s Memoirs of Gray, iii. 31; Mounsey, Dr., ii. 64, n. 2; Mur, ii. 258; Orphan of China, i. 324, n. 1, 327; Poetical Epistle to S. Johnson, i. 355; portrait at Streatham, iv. 158, n. 1; Review of Burke’s Sublime and Beautiful, i. 310; Romeo and Juliet as altered by Garrick, v. 244, n. 2; Selections, disapproves of, iii. 29; Shakespeare and Congreve compared, ii. 86; Simpson, Joseph, account of, iii. 28; Smith’s Wealth of Nations, cannot read, ii. 430, n. 1; Spectator, chance writers in the, iii. 33; Thrale’s friendship for him, i. 493, n. 1; ‘Tig and Tirry,’ ii. 127, n. 3; Zenobia, ii. 127, n. 3; mentioned, ii. 82, 374, 469, n. 2; iii. 27; iv. 273. MURRAY, Sir Alexander, v. 293. MURRAY, Lady Augusta, ii. 152, n. 2. MURRAY, Lord George, ii. 270, n. 1. MURRAY, James Stuart, Earl of, the Regent, v. 114, n. 2. MURRAY, John, the bookseller, iii. 294. MURRAY, —— (Lord Henderland), Johnson, dines with, iii. 8-16; silent in his company, v. 50; sends his son to Westminster School, iii. 12. MURRAY, R., Fellow of Trinity College, Dublin, i. 489. MURRAY, William. See MANSFIELD, Earl of. Musarum Deliciae, iii. 319, n. 1. Muse in Livery, ii. 446. Muses’ Welcome to King James, v. 57, 80. MUSGRAVE, Dr. Samuel, dines with Reynolds, iii. 318-20; parades his Greek, iii. 318, n, 1. MUSGRAVE, Mr. (afterwards Sir) Richard, ii. 343, n. 2; iv. 323, n. 1. MUSGRAVE, Sir William, i. 152. MUSIC, effect of it explained, iii. 198; emoluments of performers, ii. 225; melancholy effects produced per se bad, iv. 22; in Revelation, ii. 163. See JOHNSON, music. Musical Travels of Joel Collyer, i. 315. MUSWELL HILL, ii. 378, n. 1. MUTINY ACT. See SOLDIERS. Mutual friend, iii. 103, n. 1. MYDDELTON, Rev. Mr., v. 453. MYDDLETON, Colonel, family motto, v. 450, n. 2; Johnson, erects a memorial to, iv. 421, n. 2; v. 453, n. 1; visits him, v. 443, 452-3. MYLNE, Robert, i. 351. Mysargyrus, i. 252, 254, n. 1. MYSTERY, iii. 324 Boswell’s love of the mysterious, iv. 94, n. 2; ‘the wisdom of blockheads,’ iii. 324, n. 4; universal, iii. 342. MYTHOLOGY, its dark and dismal regions, iv. 16, n. 4; can no longer be used by poets, iv. 17; none among savages, iii. 50.
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