Barbauld, Mrs., passage from, 296; lines by, 356. Barere, views and conduct early and late in life, 104. Barry, Michael J., some lines by, 120. Barton, Bernard, his surprise at a funeral, 156. Bathurst, Lord, and the Essay on Man, 249. Baxter, a believer in witchcraft, 250; his views at the end of life, 268; the result, after a trial of worldly things, 326. Bayle, on Pericles and Aspasia, 41; on the spirit of party, 61; on Machiavelli's Prince, 233; the purity of, 245. Beattie, Dr., of a witty parson, 43. Beaumarchais, adaptations of Tarare, 221. Becket, Thomas a, story of the mother of, 212. Beckford, and his romance, Vathek, 252. Bentivoglio, misfortunes of, 262. Beranger, refuses a legacy, 141. Berkeley, Bishop, on being master of one's time, 136. Bernis, Cardinal, and Madame de Pompadour, 268. Betterton, a borrower from Steele, 169. Beyle, Henri, a laborious writer, 125. Beza, one of his invectives, 45; his coarse, amorous poems, 268. Bible, the, in literature, 161; a reference to, 241. Billingsgate, fish-woman of, 28. Blackwood's Magazine on diversity, 5; on the inevitable and irremediable, 91; on public opinion, 361; on the adoring principle in human nature, 368. Blake, William, artist, genius, mystic, madman, 281. Blessington, Lady, relating to Moore, 140. Boileau, an unwearied corrector, 126; relating to Moliere, 149. Bolingbroke to Swift, 214. Books never published, 194. Boots with pointed toes believed to be the cause of the plague, 203. Borghese, Paulo, poverty of, 261. Borghese, Princess, anecdote of, 311. Bossuet, confesses his insignificance, 30; appearance of his manuscript, 129. Boswell, and intellectual chemistry, 42; on being reckoned wise, 168; the bulwark of Johnson's fame, 190; Johnson's pretended contempt of, 243. Boyle, effect of falling water upon, 244. Brackenridge, distrust of moderation natural, 296. Brahe, Tycho, and the idiot Lep, 228; his terror of a hare or fox, 244. Brain, insensibility of the, 242. Bramah, origin of the idea of his lock, 181. Brewster, Sir David, and the story of the falling apple, 175; on Galileo's abjuration, 223. Bronte, Charlotte, a painstaking writer, 126; life and genius of, 276, 277, 278. Brougham, how he composed one of his speeches, 132; a curious fact of, 254. Brown, John, utterances and incidents of, 113; and the old engine-house, 264; and the governor of Virginia, 264; a daughter of, 265; one of his trusted men, 265. Brown, Tom, a remark of, 121. Browne, Sir Thomas, on self-love, 14; confesses his ignorance, 31; on a neglect of the great, 151; on maxims that will never be out of date, 159; his faith in witchcraft, 224; a lofty thought of, on the immortality of life, 355; on usurping the gates of heaven, 366; his distrust of his own judgment, 381. Bruce, and the story of the spider, 165; death of, 260. Brunel, a remark of, relating to Pompey's Pillar, 181.