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;
  foolish to indulge it, iii. 135;
  madness, allied to, iii. 175;
  remedies against it,
    ‘Be not solitary, be not idle,’ iii. 415;
    employment and hardships, iii. 176, 180, 368;
    exercise, i. 64, 446;
    hidden, should be, iii. 368, 421;
    moderation in eating and drinking, i. 446; iii. 5;
    occupation of the mind and society, i. 446; ii. 423; iii. 5;