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. 352;
  despised modern Latin poets, i. 90, n. 1;
  Imitation of Juvenal, i. 118;
  imitated by Murphy, i. 356, n. 1;
  ‘Le vainqueur des vanqueurs,’ &c., i. 261, n. 2;
  Life by Desmaiseaux, i. 29;
  on the neglect of a book, iii. 375, w.i. 
BOLINGBROKE, Henry St. John, first Viscount,
  Burnet’s History of his Own Time, ii. 213, n. 3;
  Booth’s Cato, v. 126, n. 2;
  crown revenues, ii. 353, n. 4;
  dictionary-makers, i. 296, n. 3;
  English historians, ii. 236, n. 2;
  Garrick’s Ode, i. 269;
  history to be read with suspicion, ii. 213, n. 3;
    authorised romance, ii. 366, n. 1;
  House of Commons, describes the, iii. 234, n. 2;
  Johnson’s attack on his fame, i. 268, 330;
  Leslie and Bedford, iv. 286, n. 3;
  Mallet’s edition of his Works, i. 268, 329, n. 3;
  Oxford, Lord, character of, iii. 236, n. 3;
  Patriot King, i. 329, n. 3;