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;