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.
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