The Life of Samuel Johnson - James Boswell [782]
Mayo, DrHenry (1733–93), Nonconformist minister: 393–6, 677–80, 945
Mazarin, Cardinal (1602–61), first ministerof France after Cardinal de Richelieu’s death in 1642; completed Richelieu’s work of establishing France’s supremacy among the European powers and crippling the opposition to the power of the monarchy at home: 475
Mead, Dr Richard (1673–1754), physician and collector of books and art; according to S.J., someone who ‘lived more in the broad sunshine of life than almost any man’: 11, 92 and n. a, 613, 716
Meeke, RevdJohn (i709?-63), fellow of Pembroke College: 147–8
Mela, Pomponius (fl. ist century ad), Roman geographer: 245
Melanchthon, Philip (1497–1560), German author of the Augsburg Confessio of the Lutheran Church (1530); humanist, reformer, theologian and educator: 23, 314, 584, 586 n. a
Melchisedec: 484 n. a
Melcombe, Baron, see Dodington, George Bubb
Melmoth, William, the younger (1710–99), author and translator; contributed to The World (1753-6) and Dodsley’s Fables (1761); translated Pliny and Cicero: 752, 914 n. a
Melton, Philip (fl. 1777), landlord of Edensor Inn: 635
Melville, Henry Dundas, 1st Viscount, see Dundas, Henry
Memis, Dr John (fl. 1775), a litigious physician of Aberdeen: 16, 418, 422, 460, 461 n. a, 570, 573
Menage, Gilles (1613–92), French scholar: 388 andn. b, 708 n. a, 1005 n. a
Mercurius Spur, pseudonym of Cuthbert Shaw (q.v.)
Metcalfe, Philip ($$), MP: 330 n. a, 837, 854
Meursius, Joannes (1579–1639), Dutch scholar: 476
Meynell, Hugo (1727–1808), fox-hunter: 49, 728, 770
Meynell, Miss, see Fitzherbert, Mrs
Michael Angelo (1475–1564), Italian painter: 471, 475
Mickle, William Julius (1736–88), poet and translator; corrector of the Clarendon Press, Oxford (1765–72); author of the neo-Spenserian poem The Concubine (1767); translated Luis de Camoes’s Os Lusiadas as The Lusiad(\jj6); assimile Scot who Anglicized his name; correspondent of J.B.: 356, 538, 900, 901, 934
Middlesex, Charles Sackville, Earl of (later 2nd Duke of Dorset) (1711–69): 12, 196
Midgeley, Dr Robert (c.i 655–1723), physician: 873 and n. b
Millar, Andrew (1707–68), bookseller; London agent for the Foulis press in Glasgow from 1741; one of the first Scotsmen ever elected to the Stationers’ Court of Assistants (1763); one of the first booksellers to advance money for unwritten titles, notably S.J.’s Dictionary; friend of Hume and Fielding: 104, 133,156, 157 and n. a, 704
Miller, or Riggs-Miller, Sir John (d. 1798), baronet, MP: 443, 555
Miller, Lady (d. 1781), wife of the above: 443
Milner, Revd Joseph (1744–97), Church of England clergyman and ecclesiastical historian; curate (1768) then vicar (1786) of North Ferriby, Yorkshire; chiefly remembered as the author of The History of the Church of Christ (1794–1809); reviewed Gibbon’s Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire: 241 n. a
Milton, John (1608–74), poet and polemicist; Secretary for Foreign Tongues (1649); champion of the republic; permanently blind from 1652; rejected the doctrine of the Trinity in favour of a modified Arianism; went into hiding on the Restoration; author of the monumental Paradise Lost (1667), widely regarded as England’s national epic; further poetical success with Paradise Regained (1671) and Samson Agonistes (1617), a closet drama; prose tracts include The History of Britain (1671) and The Ready andEasy Way to Establishing a Free Commonwealth (1660); revolutionized English poetic form by his use of blank verse; General: 12, 20, 21, 65, 82, 126,127 and n. a, 128, 163, 221 n. a, 387 and n. a, 442, 557, 675, 717, 742, 782 n. a, 784–6 and n. b, 799, 804 and n. a, 903, 932, 943, 954; Quotations and allusions: Allegro j6, 243, 557; Paradise Lost 141, 699, 720, 785, 804 n. a, 932, 954; Penseroso 173 n. d; sonnets 903 n. a
Molinos, Miguel de (1626–89), Spanish secular priest: 708 n. a
Monboddo, James Burnett, Lord (1714–99), judge, philosopher and controversialist who hosted J.B. et al.; wrote Of the Origins and Progress of Language (incomplete, 1773–92), ridiculed by S.J.; proto-evolutionary linguistic speculator: 299, 338,