290, n. 4. BISCAY, language of, i. 322. BISHOP, contradicting one, iv. 274; House of Lords, in the, ii. 171; how made, ii. 352; v. 80; Johnson dines with two Bishops in Passion Week, iv. 88-9; learning, their, iv. 13; dulness, ib. n. 3; liberties taken in their presence, iv. 295; losses and gain by preferment, iv. 286, n. 1; 'necessity of holding preferments in commendam,' iv. 118, n. 2; 'Seven Bishops,' iv. 287; tippling-house, at a, iv. 75; a rout, ib. See HIERARCHY. Bishop, a bowl of, i. 251. BISHOP STORTFORD, ii. 62. BISHOPRIC, resignation of a, iii. 113, n. 2. BISMARCK, Prince, iv. 27, n. 1. BLACK, why part of mankind is, i. 401. Black dog, the, iii. 414. BLACK-GUARDS, and red-guards, ii. 164, 251. BLACK-LETTER BOOKS, ii. 120. BLACKET, Sir Thomas, v. 148, n. 1. BLACKIE'S Etymological Geography, v. 237, n. 3. BLACKLOCK, Dr., blindness and poetry, i. 466; Hume, extolled by, iv. 186, n. 2; tutor to his nephew, v. 47, n. 3; Johnson, meets, v. 47; talks of scepticism, ib.; letter in explanation, v. 417; Poems, quotation from his, i. 334; mentioned, v. 394. BLACKMORE, Sir Richard, attorney, son of an, ii. 126, n. 4; teaches a school, i. 97, n. 2; Creation, his, ii. 108; honoured too much by attacks, ii. 107; Johnson adds him to the Lives, iii. 370; iv. 35, n. 3, 54-6; describes himself in the Life, iv. 55; saves him from the critics, ib., n. 1; Literary Club of Lay Monks, i. 388, n. 3; v. 384, n. 2; supposed lines on Prince Voltiger, ii. 108; Swift, ridiculed by, iv. 80, n. 1. BLACKSTONE, Sir William, Borough English, v. 320; Commentaries written when he had little practice, ii. 430; composed with the help of port wine, iv. 91; crown revenues, ii. 353; n. 4; Hackman's trial, iii. 384; Hawkins's Siege of Aleppo, approves of, iii. 259; House of Hanover, right of the, v. 202; legal succession, ii. 414, n. 2; Pembroke College, member of, i. 75; portrait in the Bodleian, iv. 91, n. 2; stultifying oneself, v. 342, n. 1. BLACKWALL, Anthony, i. 84; iv. 311, 407, n. 4. BLACKWELL, Thomas, Memoirs of the Court of Augustus, i. 309, 311. BLACKWELL, Dr., a physician, i. 467, n. 1. BLAGDEN, Dr., iv. 30. BLAINVILLE, H., ii. 346. BLAIR, Rev. Dr. Hugh, Boswell, letter to, iii. 402; Boswell's lowing like a cow, v. 396; composed slowly, v. 67; conversation, his, iii. 339, n. 1; v. 397, n. 3; Dissertation on Ossian, i. 396; ii. 296, 302, n. 2; iii. 50; Johnson, in awe of, ii. 63; 'den,' i. 395; misunderstanding with, ii. 275, 278; record of a talk with, v. 398; Johnsonian style, remarks on the, iii. 172; Lectures on Rhetoric, iii. 172; Pope, anecdotes of, iii. 402-3; preached in a shamefully dirty church, v. 41; 'Scotchman, though the dog is a,' &c., iv. 98; Sermons, publication, iii. 97; price paid, iii. 98; popularity, iii. 167, n. 2, 211; Johnson praises them, iii. 97, 104, 109, 167, 211; iv. 98; but criticises the Sermon on Devotion, iii. 338; whist, learns, v. 404, n. 1; mentioned, ii. 53, n. 1; v. 387, 394. BLAIR, Rev. Dr. John, iii. 402. BLAIR, Rev. Robert, iii. 47, n. 3. BLAIR, Robert, Solicitor-General of Scotland, iii. 47, n. 3. Blake, Life of, i. 147, n. 5. BLAKESLEY, Dean, iv. 125, n. 4. BLAKEWAY, Rev. J., i. 15. BLANCHARD, ----, iv. 358, n. 1. BLANCHETTI, Marquis, ii. 390. BLAND, J., i. 123, n. 3. BLANEY, Mrs. Elizabeth, i. 37; iv. 372. BLANK VERSE, Goldsmith and Gray's estimate of it, i. 427, n. 2; Johnson's estimate of it, i. 427; ii. 124; iv. 20, 42-3, 60; 'verse only to the eye,' iv. 43; described by a shepherd, ib., n. 1. BLASPHEMY, property in, v. 50. BLEEDING, habit of, iii. 152, n. 3. BLENHEIM PARK, Johnson had not seen it by 1773, v. 303; and Boswell visit it, ii. 451; and the Thrales, v. 458. BLIND, distinguishing colour by the touch, ii. 190. BLOCKHEAD, Churchill, applied to, i. 419; Fielding, ii. 173; Sterne, ib., n. 2; woman, a, ii. 456. BLOIS, i. 389, n. 1. 'BLOOD,' Johnson had no pretensions to it, ii. 261; Boswell's pride in it, v. 51. BLOUNT, Martha, i. 232, n. 1. BLOXAM, Rev. Matthew, iii. 304. BLUEBEARD, ii. 181. BLUE-STOCKING MEETINGS, iii. 425, n. 3; iv. 108; v. 32, n. 3. BOARS, statues of, iii. 231. BOCCAGE, ----, ii. 390. BOCCAGE, Mme. du, makes tea a l'Angloise, ii. 403; her Columbiade, iv. 331; mentioned by Walpole and Grimm, ib., n. 1. BODENS, George, iii. 428, n. 4. BODLEIAN LIBRARY. See OXFORD. BOERHAAVE, Herman, attacks, never answered, ii. 61, n. 4; executions, on, iv. 188, n. 3; Johnson, Life by, i. 140, 268, n. 2; ii. 372; resemblance to, iv. 430, n. 1; sleepless nights, iv. 384, n. 1. BOETHIUS (Hector Bocce), favourite writer of the middle ages, ii. 127; Johnson translates some verses by him, i. 139; tries to get his portrait, iv. 265. BOHEMIA, iii. 458. BOHEMIAN LANGUAGE, ii. 156. BOHEMIAN SERVANT, Boswell's. See RITTER, Joseph. BOILEAU, corrected by Arnauld, iii. 347; 'cultivez vos amis,' iv.