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.).