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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

Blame, see Praise.

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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