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.
MENAGE, 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.
MOLIERE, _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;
