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 of Leed’s marriage, iv. 14;
      complains of its failure, iii. 191, n. 1;
  men as they are, took, iii. 282;
  men and women, his subjects of inquiry, v. 439, n. 2;
  mental faculties, tests his, iv. 21;
  metaphysics, fond of, i. 70;
    withheld from their study, v. 109, n. 3;
  method, want of, iii. 94;
  ‘Methodist in a dignified manner,’ i. 458, n. 3;
  military matters, interest in, iii. 361;
  militia, drawn for the, iv. 319;
  mill, compared to a, v. 265;