_Cornelia Blimber_, the doctor's daughter, a slim young lady, who kept her hair short and wore spectacles. Miss Blimber "had no nonsense about her," but had grown "dry and sandy with working in the graves of dead languages." She married Mr. Feeder, B.A., Dr. Blimber's usher.--C. Dickens, _Dombey and Son_ (1846). BLIND BEGGAR OF BETHNAL GREEN, Henry, son and heir of sir Simon de Montfort. At the battle of Evesham the barons were routed, Montfort slain, and his son Henry left on the field for dead. A baron's daughter discovered the young man, nursed him with care, and married him. The fruit of the marriage was "pretty Bessee, the beggar's daughter." Henry de Montfort assumed the garb and semblance of a blind beggar, to escape the vigilance of king Henry's spies. Day produced, in 1659, a drama called _The Blind Beggar of Bethnal Green_, and S. Knowles, in 1834, produced his amended drama on the same subject. There is [or was], in the Whitechapel Road a public-house sign called the Blind Beggar of Bethnal Green.--_History of Sign-boards._ BLIND EMPEROR (_The_), Ludovig III. of Germany (880, 890-934). BLIND HARPER (_The_), John Parry, who died 1739. John Stanley, mnsician and composer, was blind from his birth (1713-1786). BLIND HARRY, a Scotch minstrel of the fifteenth century, blind from infancy. His epic of _Sir William Wallace_ runs to 11,861 lines. He was minstrel in the court of James IV. BLIND MECHANICIAN (_The_). John Strong, a great mechanical genius, was blind from his birth. He died at Carlisle, aged sixty-six (1732-1798). BLIND POET (_The_), Luigi Groto, an Italian poet called _Il Cieco_ (1541-1585). John Milton (1608-1674). Homer is called _The Blind Old Bard_ (fl. B.C. 960). BLIND TRAVELLER (_The_), lieutenant James Holman. He became blind at the age of twenty-five, but, notwithstanding, travelled round the world, and published an account of his travels (1787-1857). BLIN´KINSOP, a smuggler in _Redgauntlet_, a novel by sir W. Scott (time, George III.). BLISTER, the apothecary, who says, "Without physicians, no one could know whether he was well or ill." He courts Lucy by talking shop to her.--Fielding, _The Virgin Unmasked_. BLITHE-HEART KING (_The_). David is so called by Caedmon. Those lovely lyrics written by his hand Whom Saxon Caedmon calls "The Blithe-heart King." Longfellow, _The Poet's Tale_ (ref. is to _Psalm_ cxlviii. 9). BLOCK (_Martin_), one of the committee of the Estates of Burgundy, who refuse supplies to Charles the Bold, duke of Burgundy.--Sir W. Scott, _Anne of Geierstein_ (time, Edward IV.). BLOK (_Nikkel_), the butcher, one of the insurgents at Liege.--Sir W. Scott, _Quentin Durward_ (time, Edward IV.). BLONDEL DE NESLE [_Neel_], the favorite trouvère or minstrel of Richard Coeur de Lion. He chanted the _Bloody Vest_ in presence of queen Berengaria, the lovely Edith Plantagenet.--Sir W. Scott, _The Talisman_ (time, Richard I.).