han 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,