y, growing, iii. 415, n. 2;
literary career in 1745-6, almost suspended, i. 176;
Literary Club: see CLUBS and JOHNSON, club;
literary reputation, estimated by Goldsmith, ii. 233;
_Lives of the Poets_, proof of his vigour, iii. 98, n. 1;
effect on his mind, iv. n. 1: see _Lives of the Poets_;
London life, knowledge of, iii. 450;
'permanent London object,' v. 347: see LONDON;
Lords, did not quote the authority of, iv. 183: see JOHNSON, great;
lost five guineas by hiding them, iv. 21;
love, in love with Olivia Lloyd, i. 92;
Hector's sister, ii. 460;
Mrs. Emmet, ii. 464;
_love_, Garrick sends him his, v. 350;
low life, cannot bear, v. 307;
_Lusiad_, projected translation of the, iv. 251;
machinery, knowledge of, ii. 459, n. 1;
madness, dreaded, i. 66;
melancholy, confounded it with, iii. 175;
'mad, at least not sober,' i. 35, 65; v. 215;
often near it, i. 276, n. 2; iii. 99;
majestic, v. 135;
mankind, describes the general hostility of, iii. 236, n. 4;
mankind less just and more beneficent, iii. 236;
less expected of them, iv. 239;
manners, disgusted with coarse, v. 307;
total inattention to established manners, v. 70;
his roughness, ii. 13. 66, 376;
in contradicting, iv. 280;
only external, ii. 362; iii. 80-81;
partly due to his truthfulness, iv. 221, n. 2;
rough as winter and mild as summer, iv. 396, n. 3;
had been an advantage, iv. 295;
Mickle never had a rough word, iv. 250;
Malone never heard a severe thing from him, iv. 341;
Miss Burney's account, iv. 426, n. 2;
Macleods of Dunvegan Castle delighted with him, v. 208, n. 1;
softened, iv. 65, n. 1, 220, n. 3;
marriage, i. 95;
Master of Arts degree, i. 132, 275, 278, n. 2, 279-283;
medicine, knowledge of: see JOHNSON, physic;
melancholy, confounds it with madness, iii. 175;
constitutional, v. 17;
exaggerated by Boswell, ii. 262, n. 2;
inherited 'a vile melancholy,' i. 35;
'morbid melancholy,' i. 63, 343;
proposes to write the history of it, ii. 45, n. 1;
remedies against it, i. 446:
see JOHNSON, health;
memory, extraordinary, early instances, i. 39, 48;
shown in remembering, Ariosto, v. 368, n. 1;
Bet Flint's verses, iv. 103, n. 2;
Greek hymns, iii. 318, n. 1;
Hay's _Martial_, v. 368;
letter to Chesterfield, i. 263, n. 2;
Rowe's plays, iv. 36, n. 3;
verses on the Duke