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;