344, n. 2; colloquial Latin, ii. 125, n. 5; contempt of Garrick's acting, ii. 92, n. 4; Debates, i. 504; degree of Doctor, i. 488, n. 3; desire of life, iv. 418, n. 1; desire for reconciliation, ii. 256, n. 1; dread of death, iv. 399, n. 6; and Garrick introduced to the Thrales, i. 493; levee, attends, ii. 118; life in Johnson's Court, ii. 5. n. 1; love for him, ii. 127; pension, i. 374-5; praises him as a dramatic writer, ii. 127; sorrow for Garrick's death, iii. 371, n. 1; proposal to write his Life, ib.; style, i. 221, n. 4; and Thurlow, iv. 327, n. 4; will, not in, iv. 402, n. 2; wit and humour, ii. 262, n. 2; Mason's Memoirs of Gray, iii. 31; Mounsey, Dr., ii. 64, n. 2; Mur, ii. 258; Orphan of China, i. 324, n. 1, 327; Poetical Epistle to S. Johnson, i. 355; portrait at Streatham, iv. 158, n. 1; Review of Burke's Sublime and Beautiful, i. 310; Romeo and Juliet as altered by Garrick, v. 244, n. 2; Selections, disapproves of, iii. 29; Shakespeare and Congreve compared, ii. 86; Simpson, Joseph, account of, iii. 28; Smith's Wealth of Nations, cannot read, ii. 430, n. 1; Spectator, chance writers in the, iii. 33; Thrale's friendship for him, i. 493, n. 1; 'Tig and Tirry,' ii. 127, n. 3; Zenobia, ii. 127, n. 3; mentioned, ii. 82, 374, 469, n. 2; iii. 27; iv. 273. MURRAY, Sir Alexander, v. 293. MURRAY, Lady Augusta, ii. 152, n. 2. MURRAY, Lord George, ii. 270, n. 1. MURRAY, James Stuart, Earl of, the Regent, v. 114, n. 2. MURRAY, John, the bookseller, iii. 294. MURRAY, ---- (Lord Henderland), Johnson, dines with, iii. 8-16; silent in his company, v. 50; sends his son to Westminster School, iii. 12. MURRAY, R., Fellow of Trinity College, Dublin, i. 489. MURRAY, William. See MANSFIELD, Earl of. Musarum Deliciae, iii. 319, n. 1. Muse in Livery, ii. 446. Muses' Welcome to King James, v. 57, 80. MUSGRAVE, Dr. Samuel, dines with Reynolds, iii. 318-20; parades his Greek, iii. 318, n, 1. MUSGRAVE, Mr. (afterwards Sir) Richard, ii. 343, n. 2; iv. 323, n. 1. MUSGRAVE, Sir William, i. 152. MUSIC, effect of it explained, iii. 198; emoluments of performers, ii. 225; melancholy effects produced per se bad, iv. 22; in Revelation, ii. 163. See JOHNSON, music. Musical Travels of Joel Collyer, i. 315. MUSWELL HILL, ii. 378, n. 1. MUTINY ACT. See SOLDIERS. Mutual friend, iii. 103, n. 1. MYDDELTON, Rev. Mr., v. 453. MYDDLETON, Colonel, family motto, v. 450, n. 2; Johnson, erects a memorial to, iv. 421, n. 2; v. 453, n. 1; visits him, v. 443, 452-3. MYLNE, Robert, i. 351. Mysargyrus, i. 252, 254, n. 1. MYSTERY, iii. 324 Boswell's love of the mysterious, iv. 94, n. 2; 'the wisdom of blockheads,' iii. 324, n. 4; universal, iii. 342. MYTHOLOGY, its dark and dismal regions, iv. 16, n. 4; can no longer be used by poets, iv. 17; none among savages, iii. 50.

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NABOBS, ii. 339, n. 2; v. 106. NAIL, growth of the, iii. 398, n. 3. NAIRNE, Colonel, v. 69-70. NAIRNE, William (Lord Dunsinan), accompanies Johnson to St. Andrews, v. 54, 56, 58, 62; to Edinburgh Castle, v. 386; praised by him, v. 53; and by Sir Walter Scott, ib., n. 3; mentioned, iii. 41, 126; v. 38, 394-5. NAIRNE, Mr., the optician, iii. 21, n. 2. Namby-Pamby, i. 179. NAMES, queer-sounding, iii. 76. NAMPTWICH, v. 432. NAP after dinner, ii. 407. NAPIER, Rev. Alexander, edition of Boswell, ii. 391, n. 4. NAPLES, iii. 19; v. 54. Naples, History of the Kingdom of, iv. 3, n. 3. NAPOLEON BONAPARTE, ii. 393, n. 7. NARES, Rev. Mr., iv. 389. NARROW place, how far the mind grows narrow in a, ii. 246 NARROWNESS in expenses, v. 345-6; a fit of narrowness, iv. 191. NASH, Alderman, iii. 460. NASH, Richard ('Beau'), engages in a religious dispute at Bath, iv. 289, n. 1; 'here comes a fool,' i. 3, nn. 2, 3; a pen his torpedo, i. 159, n. 4; put down smoking at Bath, v. 60, n. 2. NASH, Rev. Dr., History of Worcestershire, i. 75, n. 3; iii. 271, n. 5. NATION, state of common life, v. 109, n. 6. NATIONAL CHARACTER, no permanence in, ii. 194. NATIONAL DEBT, ii. 127; iii. 408, n. 4. NATIONAL FAITH, iv, 21. NATIVE PLACE, love of one's, iv. 147. NATIVES. See under INDIANS and SAVAGES. NATURAL HISTORY, iii. 273. Natural History. See GOLDSMITH, Oliver, Animated Nature. NATURAL PHILOSOPHY, ii. 55. NATURE, Boswell's want of relish for its beauties, i. 461; all men envious and thieves by nature, iii. 271; state of nature, iii. 49; v. 88. See under SAVAGES. Nature Displayed, iv. 311. Navigation, ii. 136, n. 2; iii. 362. Navvy, iii. 362, n. 5. NEANDER, ii. 274. NECESSITY, an eternal, v. 47. See under FREE WILL. NECKER, Mme., Garrick's Hamlet, v. 38, n. 2. NEGROES. See SLAVES. NEGROES,--law-cases. See KNIGHT, Joseph, and SOMERSET, James. NELSON, Robert, Festivals and Fasts, ii. 458; iv. 311; friend of Archibald Campbell, v. 357; the original of Sir Charles Grandison, ii. 458, n. 3. NENI, Count, iii.

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