Ashley, Lord, and the Ten Hours Bills, 689 n.
_As late I roamed through Fancy's shadowy vale_, a sonnet, 116 n., 118.
Autobiographical letters from C. to Thomas Poole, 3-21.
Ball, Sir Alexander John, 484, 487, 496, 497; mutual regard of C. and, 508 n.; 524, 554; C.'s narrative of his life, 579 n.; his opinions of Lady Nelson and Lady Hamilton, 637.
Bampfylde, John Codrington Warwick, his genius, originality, and subsequent lunacy, 309 and note; his _Sixteen Sonnets_, 309 n.
Barrington, Hon. and Rt. Rev. John Shute, Bishop of Durham, 582 and note.
Bassenthwaite Lake, 335, 376 n.; sunset over, 384.
Beaumont, Lady, 459, 573, 580, 592, 593; procures subscribers to C.'s lectures, 599; 644, 645, 739, 741; letter from C., 641.
Beaumont, Sir George, 440 n., 462; his affection for C. preceded by dislike, 468; 493; extract from a letter from Wordsworth on John Wordsworth's death, 494 n.; 496; lends the Wordsworths his farmhouse near Coleorton, 509 n.; 579-581; C. explains the nature of his quarrel with Wordsworth to, 592, 593; 595 n., 629; on Allston as an historical painter, 633; 739, 741; letter from C., 570.
_Beauties of the Anti-Jacobin, The_, its libel on C., 320 and note.
Beddoes, Dr. Thomas, 157, 211, 338; C.'s grief at his death, 543 and note, 544 and note; his advice and sympathy in response to C.'s confession, 543 n.; his character. 544.
Bell, Rev. Andrew, D. D., 575, 582 and note, 605; his _Origin, Nature, and Object of the New System of Education_, 581 and note, 582.
_Bell, Rev. Andrew, Life of_, by R. and C. C. Southey, 581 n.
Bennett, Abraham, his electroscope, 218 n., 219 n.
Bentley's Quarto Edition of Horace, 68 and note.
_Benyowski, Count, or the Conspiracy of Kamtschatka, a Tragi-comedy_, by Kotzebue, 236 and note.
Bernard, Sir Thomas, 579 and notes, 580, 582, 585, 595 n., 599.
_Betham, Matilda, To. From a Stranger_, 404 n.
_Bible, The_, as literature, C.'s opinion of, 200; slovenly hexameters in, 398.
Bibliography, Southey's proposed work, 428-430.
_Bibliotheca Britannica, or an History of British Literature_, a proposed work, 425-427, 429, 430.
Billington, Mrs. Elizabeth Weichsel, 368.
_Biographia Literaria_, 3, 68 n., 74 n., 152 n., 164 n., 174 n., 232 n., 257, 320 n., 498 n., 607 n., 669 n., 670 n.; C. ill-used by the printer of, 673, 674; 679, 756 n.