Bisset, brigadier, his good office to Mr. Steele, ac- knowledged, Tat. iv. 271
Biton and Cleobis, their story applied, Sp. xi. 483 Black-bird, elegy on, Ad. xix. 37
Black-horse ordinary in Holborn, an adventure there, Tat. iii. 135
Blackmore, Sir Richard, his observations on poetry, Sp. v. 6; his generous purpose in writing, ib. Bladder and string, modern music applied, Tat. iii. 153
Blank, some account of his family and circumstances, Sp. xii. 563
Blank verse, most proper for tragedy, Sp. v. 39. Blanket, when that discipline is necessary, Guar. xiv. 72
Blanks, who to be accounted so in society, Sp. v. 20 Blaregnies, victory of, Tat. ii. 65
Blast, Lady, her character, Sp. x. 457
Blessed, the, their employment in a future state, Sp. xii. 626. See Heaven.
Blindness cured by Mr. Grant, story of, Tat. ii. 55 Blockheads apt to admire one another, Tat. iv. 196; an affected one described, Wor. xxiii. 120
Blood, by what tainted, Guar. xv. 137; proposal to erect the bloods' gallery, Ad. xxi. 98; remarks on the character of a, 100, Wor. xxiii. 136; in pet- ticoats, Con. xxv. 52
Blue-mantle, Lady, turns malice into mirth, Sp. x. 427
Blunder, Major, buys muskets without touch-holes, Tat. ii. 61
Blunt, Mr., character of, Look. xxxv. 3; opinions on taste, xxxvii. 74
Blushing, the livery both of guilt and innocence, Sp. x. 390. See Modesty, Bashfulness.
Board-wages, ill effect of that custom, Sp. vi. 88
Boarding-schools for young ladies, Wor. xx. 40; plan of one, Look. xxxv. 8.
Boatswain, Dampier's, contrivance to prevent being eaten, Tat. ii. 62
Boccalini's fable of a grasshopper, applied, Sp. ix.
355; animadversions on critics, viii. 291; de- spatches from Parnassus, xi. 514
Bodily exercises, what sorts encouraged by the Athe- nians, Sp. vii. 161; bodily wits, Tat. ii. 45
Bodkin, Tim's, letter on short swords, Guar. xv. 145 Body, human, the work of a transcendently wise and powerful Being, Sp. xi. 543
Boerhaave, reflections on the execution of criminals, Ram. xvii. 114.
Boethius, translated by Chaucer, Id. xxvii. 69 Boileau, Mons., censured, Sp. vii. 209; wherein his satires are faulty, ib.; his account of the sublime, Guar. xiv. 117; on the power of diction, Ram. xviii. 168; his absence of mind, Ad. xx. 87; his satires, xxi. 133; remarks upon French operas, Wor. xxiii. 98
Bolingbroke, Lord, absurdity of, Con. xxv. 12 Bombardiers, who to be accounted such, Tat. ii. 88 Bonnet's Inquiries concerning Christianity, quota- tions from, Ob. xxxiii. 60
Bonosus, a drunken Briton, a saying concerning, Sp. xii. 569
Books, the proper use of, Sp. v. 37; how to be va- lued, Tat. ii. 80; reduced to their quintessence, Sp. vi. 124; the legacies of great geniuses, vii. 166; a choice collection of them, Guar. xiv. 60; a great book a great evil, Sp. vi. 123; the study of, not sufficient to literary eminence, Ram. xviii. 154; the food of the mind, Wor. xxii. 64; physic of the mind, xxiii. 70; different effects on different con- stitutions, ib.; a meditation among them, xxiv. 140; list of, for a polite circulating library, Con.
xxv. 24; fall into neglect, Id. xxvii. 59; multiplied by useless competitions, 85 Book-hunters, Look. xxxvi. 33
Booksellers, their complaint against parson Plagius, Tat. iv. 269, see Stationer, Title-page; the pa- trons of learning, Wor. xxii. 20
Bosoms, naked, a great grievance, Guar. xiv. 116; the pope's order against them, 116. 118. 121, Look. xxxvi. 54
Bossu, character of, Ad. xx. 49
Boswell's Life of Johnson, sheet omitted in, Look. xxxvii. 79
Boufflers, marshal, a letter from him to the French king after a battle, Tat. ii. 77
Bouhours, Mons., the most penetrating of the French critics, Sp. v. 62
Boul, Mr., his auction of pictures, Sp. vii. 226 Bourignon, Madame de, foundress of the Pietists, her extraordinary gifts and talents, Tat. iii. 126 Bouts-rimés, what, Sp. v. 60
Bow, long, the English obliged by statute to exercise it, Sp. viii. 261
Boxing-match, account of, Con. xxv. 30
Boyer, A., description of a battle by, Mir. xxix. 107 Boyle, Mr., his virtue and generosity, Guar. xv. 175; how his life was spent, Sp. xii. 554; the profound veneration he had for the name of God, xi. 531; Robert, philosophy improved by his discoveries, Ram. xvii. 106; his opinion of the best expedients for promoting manufactures, xviii. 201
Boys, their delights cheap and innocent, Guar. xiv. 62
Bozaldab, an Eastern story, Ad. xx. 76
Bracegirdle, Mrs., an excellent player, Tat. i. 1 Bracelet, the letter on, Id. xxvii. 39
Bracton, Mr. his opinion concerning the correction of scolds, Sp. xi. 479
Brag-table, an asylum against the passions, Wor. xxii. 48
Brains, spirit of, in orange-flower water, Tat. ii. 94 Breeches-maker's lady, her boast in the stage-coach, Wor. xxii. 41
Breeding, fine, distinguished from good, Sp. vi. 66; often mistaken, Tat. iv. 215; great revolution therein, Sp. vi. 119. See Good Breeding. Brevity, when necessary to an author, Ram. xvi. 1 Briant. See Segonia.
Bribery, a successful way of arguing, Sp. viii. 239; the most prevailing way of making one's court, x. 394: none in liquors, Guar. xv. 160; reflections on bribery with coals, Tat. ii. 73; a notable expe- dient to prevent it at elections, ib.; an essay and poem on, i. 42; a solicitor in the temple of ava- rice, iii. 123
Bride, disappointment of an old one, Wor. xxii. 33 Bride-cake, a vision, Con. xxvi. 95
Bridge, inquisitorial, story of, Look. xxxvii. 67 Bridget Howd'ye, her lady's advertisement concern- ing her, Tat. iv. 245
Brisk, Sir Liberal, saved from sharpers, Tat. ii. 73 Britain particularly fruitful in religions, Tat. iv. 259 British ladies distinguished from Picts, Sp. vi. 41 Brittle, lady Harriet, a mad virtuoso, Ad. xxi. 109 Bromiels, Mr., advice to, Wor. xxii. 64
Broom, Betty, a servant, history of, Id. xxvii. 26, 29 Brother, account of a younger, Mir. xxix. 69
Brown, Tom, introduces a new method of writing, Sp. xii. 576
Browne, Mr. Simon, remarkable lunacy of, Ad. xx. 88
Bruce, Lord, duel with Sir Edward Sackville, Guar. xv. 129. 133
Bruce, Michael, anecdotes of, Mir. xxviii. 36 Brumoy, character of, Ad. xx. 49
Brunetta and Phillis, their adventures, Sp. vi. 80 Brunette, Colonel, a very pretty fellow, Tat. i. 24 Brussels Postscript, remarks on that poem, Tat. ii. 46 Brutes, cruelty towards them condemned, Tat. iii. 134. See Animals
Bruyere, Mons., his satire on the French, Tat. ii. 57; his character of an absent man, Sp. vi. 77; cha- racters of, Ad. xx. 49; reply to, xxi. 128; cha- racter of, Mir. xxviii. 31; characters from, Look. xxxvi. 55
Bublenia, angry about the tucker, Tat. iii. 109 Buck, Timothy's, answer to James Miller's challenge, Sp. x. 436; character of a buck, Ad. xxi. 100; hospital for, Wor. xxii. 23; terrible exit of one, Con. xxv. 28; their frolics, 54
Buckingham, Duke of, invented the manufacturing of glass, Sp. xi. 509
Buckley, Mr., a drawcansir, Tat. i. 18
Buffoonery censured, Sp. x. 443
Building, errors in undertaking it, Guar. xiii. 6 Bull-dog's engagement with the Friseur, Id. xxvii. 7 Bullen, see Anne Boleyne
Bullock and Norris, the comedians, Sp. v. 44; pa- rallel between Bullock and Penkethman, Tat. iv. 188; to attend Mr. Bickerstaff's funeral, i. 7 Bumpers, necessity of, a damnable doctrine, Sp. xi. 474. See Drinking
Burial service of the Church of England very solemn, Guar. xiii. 21 Burlesque, two kinds, Sp. viii. 249; burlesque au- thors the delight of ordinary readers, xii. 616.625; burlesque humour, 616; ancient and modern com- pared, Ad. xxi. 133
Burlington, Earl of, his saying on the rebuilding of St. Paul's, Wor. xxii. 50
Burns, Robert, the Ayrshire ploughman, account of, Loun. xxxi. 97
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