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; 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.

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