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;
_Dictionary_, 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.
_Manege_ 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 Townshend, 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;
