Complete Works of Samuel Johnson

by Samuel Johnson

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  PACKWOOD, Warwickshire, i. 35, n. 1. PADUA, Johnson has a mind to go to it, i. 73; iii. 453; Goldsmith went to it, i. 73, n. 2; mentioned, i. 322. PAIN bodily pain easily supported, i. 157, n, 1; violent pain of mind must be severely felt, ii. 469. PAINTERS, the reputation of, iii. 43, n. 4. PAINTING, inferior to poetry, iv. 321; labour not disproportionate to effect, ii. 439; styles, iii. 280: See under JOHNSON, painting. PALACES, ii. 393. PALATINES, the, iii. 456. PALESTINE, v. 334, n. 1. PALEY, Archdeacon, attacks Gibbon, v. 203, n. 1; Bishop Law’s love of parentheses, iii. 402, n. 1; on the right to the throne, v. 202-3. PALMER, John, Answer to Dr. Priestley, iii. 291, n. 2. PALMER, Miss, Sir Joshua Reynolds’s niece, iv. 165, n. 4. PALMER, Rev. T. F., dines with Johnson, iv. 125; transported for sedition, i. 467, n. 1; iv. 125, n. 2. Palmerin of England, i. 49, n. 2. Palmerino d’ Inghilterra, iii. 2. PALMERSTON, second Viscount, Literary Club, member of the, i. 479; black-balled, iv. 232; elected, ib., n. 2, 326; his respectable pedigree, i. 348, n. 5. PALMERSTON, third Viscount (the Prime-Minister), birth, iv. 232, n. 2. subscribes to an annuity for Johnson’s god-daughter, iv. 202, n. 1. PALMYRA, iv. 126. Pamphlet, defined, iii. 319. PANCKOUCKE, i. 288. PANDOUR, A., v. 60. PANEGYRICS, iii. 155. PANTHEON, account of it, ii. 169, n. 1; Boswell and Johnson visit it, ii. 166, 168. PANTING, Rev. Dr. Matthew, i. 72. ‘PANTING TIME,’ iv. 25. PANTOMIMES, i. 111, n. 2. PAOLI, General, account of him, ii. 71; Auchinleck, Lord, described by, v. 382, n. 2; Beattie, Johnson and Wilkes, describes, iv. 101; Boswell, beautiful attention to, iii. 51, n. 3; dedicates his Corsica to him, ii. 1, n. 2; v. 1; describes, to Miss Burney, i. 6, n. 2; exact record of his sayings, ii. 434, n. 1; his guest in London, ii. 375, n. 4; iii. 35; visits him in Corsica, ii. 2, 4, n. 1; makes himself known to him, i. 404, n. 2; and the omnia vanitas, iv. 112, n. 3; repeats anecdotes to him, i. 432, n. 2; sends him some books, ii. 61; vows sobriety to him, ii. 436, n. 1; death kept out of sight, iii. 154; dinners at his house, ii. 165, 220, 260; iii. 34, 52, 276, 278, 324-331; iv. 330 (Johnson loves to dine with him, ib.); drinks to the great vagabond, iii. 411, n. 1; England, arrives in, ii. 71; Goldsmith, compliments, ii. 224; Good-Natured Man, mentioned in, ii. 45, n. 2; Histoire de Pascal Paoli, par Arrighi, ii. 3, n. 1; Homer, antiquity of, iii. 330; house in South Audley Street, iii. 392; infidelity, ii. 81, n. 1; Johnson’s description of his port, ii. 82; funeral, at, iv. 419, n. 1; introduction to him, ii. 80, 404; voracious appetite, iv. 331; languages, knowledge of, ii. 81, n. 3; marriage, state of, ii. 165; Mediterranean a subject for a poem, iii. 36; melancholy, remedy for, ii. 423, n. 1; pension, ii. 71, n. 2; Scotland, visits, v. 22, n. 2, 382, n. 2; sense of touch, ii. 190; Stewart’s mission to him, ii. 81, n. 1; subordination and the hangman, i. 408, n. 1; successful rebels and the arts, ii. 223; Tasso, repeats a stanza of, iii. 330; torture, uses, i. 467, n. 1; Wales, visits, v. 448, 449; Walpole’s account of him, ii. 82; v. 1, n. 3; Warley Camp, visits, iii. 368; mentioned, ii. 377, n. 1; iii. 104, 282; iv. 326, 332. Papadendrion, iii. 103. PAPIER MACHÉ, v. 458. PAPISTS. See ROMAN CATHOLICS. Papyrius Cursor, iv. 322. PARACELSUS, ii. 36, n. 1. PARADISE, John, account of him, iv. 364, n. 2; Johnson and Priestley meet at his house, iv. 434; Johnson’s letter to him, iv. 364; mentioned, i. 64; iii. 104, n. 5, 386; iv. 224, n. 2, 254, 272. PARADISE, Peter, iv. 364, n. 2. Paradise Lost. See MILTON. PARENTAL TYRANNY, i. 346, n. 2; iii. 377. PARENTHESES, a pound of them, iii. 402, n. 1; Johnson disapproves of their use, iv. 190. PARIS AND SUBURBS, account of them in Johnson’s Journal, ii. 389-99; Austin Nuns, ii. 392; Avantcoureur, ii. 398; Bastille, ii. 396; ‘beastliest town in the universe,’ ii. 403, n. 1; beer and brewers, ii. 396; Benedictine friars, ii. 385, 390. 397, 399, 402; iii. 286; iv. 411; boulevards, ii. 393; chairs made of painted boards, ii. 395; chambre de question, ii. 393; Chatlois (Châtelet), Hôtel de, ii. 389, 390; Choisi, ii. 392; Colosseum, ii. 394; Conciergerie, ii. 392, n, 2; Court at Fontainebleau, ii. 394; its slovenliness, ii. 395; at Versailles, v. 276; Courts of Justice, ii. 391, 395; École Militaire, ii. 389, 402; Enfans trouvés, ii. 398; Fathers of the Oratory, ii. 389; fire first lighted on Oct. 27, ii. 397; foot-ways, ii. 394, n. 3; Gobelins, ii. 390; v. 107; Grand Chartreux, ii. 398; Grêve, ii. 396; Hebrides, in novelties inferior to the, ii. 387; horses and saddles, ii. 395; Hospitals, ii. 390; Johnson saw little society, ii. 385; killed, number of people, ii. 393; Library, King’s, ii. 397; London, mentioned in, i. 119; looking-glass factory, ii. 396; Louvre, ii. 394; low Parisians described by Mrs. Piozzi, v. 106, n. 4; Luxembourg, ii. 398; mean people only walk, ii. 394; Meudon, ii. 397; Observatory, ii. 389; Palais Bourbon, ii. 393, 394; Palais Marchand, ii. 391, 393; Palais Royal, ii. 392; payments, ii. 393; 396, 398; Place de Vendôme, ii. 390; Pont tournant, ii. 392; revival of letters, iii. 254; roads near Paris empty, ii. 393; Sansterre’s brewery, ii. 396; Sellette, ii. 392; sentimentalists, iii. 149, n. 2; Sevres, ii. 395, 397; shops, mean, ii. 402; sinking table, ii. 392; society, compared with London for, iii. 253; Sorbonne, ii. 397, 399; v. 406; St. Cloud, ii. 397; St. Denis, ii. 399; St. Eustatia, ii. 398; St. Germain, ii. 399; St. Roque, ii. 390; Sundays, ii. 394; Tournelle, ii. 393; Trianon, ii. 395; Tuilleries, ii. 392, 394; iv. 282, n. 2; University, i. 321, n. 6; v. 91, n. 1; Valet de place, ii. 398. Parisenus and Parismenus, iv. 8, n. 3. PARISH, co-extensive with the manor, ii. 243; compels men to find security for the maintenance of their family, iii. 287; election of ministers, ii. 244; neglected ones, iii. 437. PARISH-CLERKS, iv. 125. PARKER, Chief Baron, i. 45, n. 4. PARKER, John, of Browsholme, v. 431. PARKER, Sackville, the Oxford book-seller, iv. 308. PARLIAMENT, awed the press, i. 115; corruption alleged, iii. 206; crown influence, ii. 118; debates: See DEBATES; disadvantages of a seat, iv. 220; dissolution: See under HOUSE OF COMMONS; duration immaterial, ii. 73; bill for shortening it, ib., n. 2; iii. 460; duration of parliaments from 1714 to 1773, v. 102, n. 2; governing by parliamentary corruption, ii. 117; Highlander’s notion of one, v. 193; Houses of Commons and of Lords: See under HOUSE OF COMMONS and HOUSE OF LORDS; Johnson projects an historical account, i. 155; suggested as a member, ii. 136-9; larger council, a, ii. 355; Long Parliament, ii. 118; members free from arrest by a bailiff, iv. 391, n. 2; Pitt’s motion for reform, iv. 165, n. 1; speakers and places, iv. 223; speeches, effect produced by, iii. 233-5; upstarts getting into it, ii. 339; use of it, ii. 355. Parliamentary History, Johnson’s Debates, i. 503, 508; prosecution of Whitehead and Dodsley, i. 125, n. 3. Parliamentary Journals, i. 117. PARLOUR, company for the, ii. 120, n. 1. PARNELL, Rev. Dr. Thomas, Contentment, iii. 122, n. 2; drank too freely, iii. 155; iv. 54, n. 1, 398; Goldsmith writes his Life, ii. 166; Hermit, a disputed passage in his, iii. 220, 392-3; Johnson writes his epitaph, iv. 54; v. 404; and his Life, iv. 54; Milton, compared with, v. 434; Night Piece, ii. 328, n. 2. PARODIES, Johnson’s parodies of ballads, ii. 136, n. 4, 212, n. 4; parodies of Johnson: See under JOHNSON, style. PARR, Rev. Dr. Samuel, describes himself as the second Grecian in England, iv. 385, n. 2; Johnson, argues with, iv. 15; character, describes, iv. 47, n. 2; epitaph, writes, iv. 423-4,444-6; Life, thinks of writing, iv. 443; Latin scholarship, praises, iv. 385, n. 3; reputation, defends, iv. 423; writes him a letter of recommendation, iv. 15, n. 5; neglected at Cambridge, i. 77, n. 4; Priestley, defends, iv. 238, n. 1, 434; Romilly, letter to, iv. 15, n. 5; Sheridan’s system of oratory, i. 394, n. 2; Steevens, character of, iii. 281, n. 3; Tracts by Warburton, &c., iv. 47, n. 2; White’s Bampton Lectures, iv. 443. PARRHASIUS, iv. 104, n. 2. PARSIMONY, quagmire of it, iii. 348; timorous, iv. 154; wretchedness, iii. 317. PARSON, the life of a. See CLERGYMEN. PARSONS, the impostor in the Cock Lane Ghost, i. 406, n. 3. PARTNEY, ii. 17. PARTY, Burke’s definition, ii. 223, n. 1; sticking to party, ii. 223; v. 36. PASCAL, Johnson gives Boswell Les Pensees, iii. 380; read by Hannah More, iv. 88, n. 1. Passenger, iv. 85, n. 1. PASSION-WEEK. See JOHNSON, Passion-week. PASSIONS, purged by tragedy, iii. 39. Pastern, defined, i. 293, 378. Pastor Fido, iii. 346. PATAGONIA, v. 387. Pater Noster, the, v. 121. PATERNITY, its rights lessened, iii. 262. PATERSON, Samuel, ii. 175; iii. 90; iv. 269, n. 1. PATERSON, a student of painting, iii. 90; iv. 227,
n. 3, 269. Paterson against Alexander, ii. 373. PATRICK, Bishop, iii. 58. Patriot, The, by Johnson, account of it, ii. 286, 288; written on a Saturday, i. 373, n. 2; election-committees described, iv. 74, n. 3. Patriot, The, a tragedy by J. Simpson, iii. 28. Patriot King, i. 329, n. 3. PATRIOTISM, last refuge of a scoundrel, ii. 348. PATRIOTS, defined, iv. 87, n, 2; Dilly’s ‘patriotic friends,’ iii. 66, 68; ‘don’t let them be patriots,’ iv. 87; patriotic groans, iii. 78. PATRONAGE, Church, ii. 242-6; rights of patrons, ii. 149. PATRONS, of authors, iv. 172; defined, i. 264, n. 4; harmful to learning, v. 59; mentioned in the Rambler, i. 259, n. 4; Letter to Chesterfield, i. 262; Vanity of Human Wishes, i. 264. PATTEN, Dr., iv. 162. PATTISON, Mark, General Oglethorpe, i. 127, n. 4; Oxford in 1770, ii. 445, n. 1; Bishop Warburton, v. 81, n. 1. PAUL, Father. See SARPI. PAUL, Sir G.O., v. 322, n. 1. PAUSANIAS, v. 220. PAVIA, ii. 125, n. 5. PAYNE, Mr. E.J., defends Burke’s character, iii. 46, n. 1; describes his love of Virgil, iii. 193, n. 3. PAYNE, John, account of him, i. 317, n. 1; Ivy Lane Club, member of the, iv. 435; Johnson’s friend in 1752, i. 243; publishes the first numbers of The Idler, i. 330, n. 3; mentioned, iv. 369, n. 3. PAYNE, William, i. 317. PEARCE, Zachary, Bishop of Rochester, Johnson, sends etymologies to, i. 292; iii. 112; writes the dedication to his posthumous works, iii. 113; wishes to resign his bishopric, iii. 113, n. 2; mentioned, i. 135. PEARSON, John, Bishop of Chester, edits Hales’s Golden Remains, iv. 315, n. 2; Johnson recommends his works, i. 398. PEARSON, Rev. Mr., ii. 471; iv. 142, 256. PEATLING, i. 241, n. 2. PEERS, creations by Pitt, iv. 249, n. 4; influence in the House of Commons, v. 56; interference in elections, iv. 248, 250; judges, as, iii. 346; Temple’s proposed reform, ii. 421. See HOUSE OF LORDS. PEKIN, v. 305. PELEW ISLANDS, v. 276, n. 2. PELHAM, Fanny, iii. 139, n. 4. PELHAM, Right Hon. Henry, Garrick’s Ode on his Death, i. 269; pensions Guthrie, i. 117, n. 2; Whiggism under him and his brother, ii. 117. PELISSON, i. 90, n. 1. PELLET, Dr., iii. 349. PEMBROKE, eighth Earl of, ‘lover of stone dolls,’ ii. 439, n. 1. PEMBROKE, tenth Earl of, Boswell visits him, ii. 371; iii. 122, n. 2; Johnson’s bow-wow way, describes, ii. 326, n. 5; v. 18, n. 1; author of Military Equitation, v. 131. PENANCE in churches, v. 208. PENELOPE, v. 85. PENGUIN, v. 225. PENITENCE, gloomy, iii. 27. PENN, Governor Richard, iii. 435, n. 4. PENNANT, Thomas, Bâch y Graig, v. 436, n. 3; bears, ii. 347; Bolt Court and Johnson, mentions in his London, iii. 274-5; Fort George described, v. 124; rents racked in the Hebrides, v. 221, n. 3; Tour in Scotland, praised by Johnson, iii. 128, 271, 274, 278, v. 221; censured by Percy, iii. 272; and Boswell, iii. 274; v. 222; Voltaire, visits, i. 435, n. 1; a Whig, iii. 274-5; v. 157. PENNINGTON, Colonel, v. 125, 127. PENNY-POST. See POST. PENRITH, ii. 4, n. 1; v. 113, n. 1. Pensioner, defined, i. 294, n. 7, 374-5. PENSIONS, defined, i. 294, 374-5; French authors, given to, i. 372, n. 1; George III’s system, ii. 112; Johnson, conferred on, i. 372-7; not for life, i. 376, n. 2; ii. 317; nor for future services, i. 373, n. 2, 374; ii. 317; not increased after his Pamphlets, ii. 147, 317; proposed addition, iv. 326-8, 336-9, 348-50; 367-8; attacked, i. 142, 373, 429; ii. 112; iii. 64, n. 2; iv. 116; in parliament, iv. 318; Beauclerk’s quotation in reference to it, i. 250; effect of it on Johnson’s work, i. 372, n. 1; on his travelling, iii. 450; effect had it been granted earlier, iv. 27; entry in the Exchequer Order Book, i. 376, n. 2; ‘out of the usual course,’ iv. 116; Johnson unchanged by it, i. 429; Strahan his agent in receiving it, ii. 137. PENURIOUS GENTLEMAN, a, iii. 40. PEOPLE, the judges afraid of the, v. 57. PEPYS, Sir Lucas, iv. 63, 169, 228. PEPYS, Samuel, Lord Orrery’s plays, v. 237, n. 4; Spring Garden, iv. 26, n. 1; tea, i. 313, n. 2. PEPYS, William Weller, account of him, iv. 82, n. 1; Johnson, attacked by, iv. 65, n. 1; over-praised by Mrs. Thrale, iv. 82; attacked again, iv. 159, n. 3; mentioned, ii. 228, n. 1; iii. 425. Perce-forest, iii. 274, n. 1. PERCEVAL, Lord (second Earl of Egmont), i. 508; iv. 198, n. 3. PERCEVAL, Lady Catharine, v. 449, n. 1. PERCY, Earl, iii. 142, 276-7. PERCY, Dr. Thomas, Dean of Carlisle, afterwards Bishop of Dromore, Alnwick, at, ii. 142; anecdotes, full of, v. 255; Boswell, letter to, i. 74; Dean of Carlisle, made, iii. 365; ‘very populous’ there, iii. 416, 417; death, on parting with his books in, iii. 312; dinner at his house, iii. 271; Dyer, Samuel, describes, iv. 11, n. 1; Easton Maudit, rector of, i. 486; iii. 437; Goldsmith and the Duchess of Northumberland, ii. 337, n. 1; epitaph, settles the dates in, iii. 81; lodgings, i. 350, n. 3; quarrels with, iii. 276, n. 2; visionary project, iv. 22, n. 3; Grainger’s character, draws, ii. 454, n. 1; reviews his Sugar-cane, i. 481; admires it, ii. 454, n. 2; ‘Grey Rat, the History of the’ ii. 455; Hawkins, draws the character of, i. 28, n. 1; heir male of the ancient Percies, iii. 271; Hermit of Warkworth, ii. 136; Johnson attacks him about Dr. Mounsey, ii. 64; about Percy’s calling him short-sighted, iii. 271-3; Percy’s uneasiness, iii. 275; Boswell’s friendly scheme, iii. 276-8; at variance for the third time iii. 276 n. 2; conversation, iii. 317; first visit to Goldsmith, i. 366, n. 1; Garrick’s awe and ridicule of, i. 99, n. 1; method in writing his Dictionary, i. 188, n. 2; parodies his poems, ii. 136, n. 4; 212, n. 4; praises him in a letter to Boswell, iii. 276, 278; projected Life of Goldsmith, iii. 100, n. 1; questions his daughter about Pilgrim’s Progress, ii. 238, n. 5; serves him in his Ancient Ballads, iii. 276, n. 2; visits him, i. 49, 486; Vision of Theodore, i. 192; Levett, account of, iii. 220, n. 1; Literary Club, member of the, i. 478, n. 2, 479; loses by a fire, iii. 420; neglected parishes, iii. 437; Newport School, at, i. 50, n. 2; Northern Antiquities, iii. 274; Pennant, attacks, iii. 272; professor in the imaginary college, v. 109; Reliques, quoted, iv. 307, n. 3; Spectator, projects an edition of the, ii. 212, n. 1; wolf, is writing the history of the, ii. 455; mentioned, i. 142, 319, n. 3; ii. 63, 3l8, 375. n. 2; iii. 256; iv. 98, 344, 402, n. 2. Peregrinity, v. 130. PERFECTION, to be aimed at, iv. 338. PERIODICAL BLEEDING, iii. 152. PERKINS, Mr.. Account of him, ii. 286, n. 1; Johnson’s letters to him. See JOHNSON, letters; likeness in his counting-house, ii. 286, n. 1; manager of Thrale’s brewery, iv. 80, 85, n. 2; mountebanks, on, iv. 83; mentioned, iv. 245, n. 2, 402, n. 2. PERKS, Thomas, i. 95, n. 3. PERREAU, the brothers, ii. 450, n. 1. PERSECUTION, the test of religious truth, ii. 250; iv. 12. PERSECUTIONS, The Ten, ii. 255. PERSEVERANCE, i. 399. PERSIAN EMPIRE, iii. 36. Persian Heroine, The, iv. 437. PERSIAN LANGUAGE, iv. 68. Persian Letters, i. 74, n. 2. PERSIUS, quotations, Sat. i. 7, iv. 27, n. 6; Sat. i. 27, v. 25, n. 2. PERSONAGE, a great, i. 219; v. 125, n. 1. PERTH, Duke of, Chancellor of Scotland, iii. 227. PERUVIAN BARK, i. 368; iv. 293. PETER THE GREAT, worked in a dockyard, v. 249. PETER PAMPHLET, i. 287, n. 3. Peter Pindar, v. 415, n. 4. PETERBOROUGH, Charles Mordaunt, Earl of, iv. 333. PETERS, Mr., Dr. Taylor’s butler, ii. 474. PETHER or PEFFER, an engraver, iii. 21, n. 1. PETITIONS, Dodd’s case, iii. 120; how got up, ii. 90, n. 5; Johnson on petitioning, ii. 90; iii. 120, 146; Middlesex election, ii. 103; mode of distressing government, ii. 90. PETRARCH, Aeglogues, i. 277, n. 2; read by Johnson, i. 57, 115, n. 2; iv. 374, n. 5. PETTY, Sir William, allowance for one man, i. 440; employment of the poor, iv. 3; Quantulumcunque, i. 440, n. 2. PETWORTH, iv. 160. PEYNE, Mr., of Pembroke College, i. 60, n. 5. PEYTON, Mr., Johnson’s amanuensis, i. 187; ii. 155; death, ii. 379, n. 1. PHAEAX, iii. 267, n. 4. PHALLICK MYSTERY, iii. 239. PHARAOH, ii. 150. PHARMACY, simpler than formerly, iii. 285. PHILIDOR, the musician, iii. 373. Philip II, History of, by Watson, v. 58. PHILIPPS, Sir Erasmus, Diary, i. 60, n. 4, 273, n. 2. PHILIPPS, Sir John, v. 276. PHILIPPS, Lady, v. 276. PHILIPS, Ambrose, Blackmore’s Creation, describes the composition of, ii. 108, n. 1; Distressed Mother, i. 181, n. 4; Life by Johnson, iv. 56; Namby Pamby, called by Pope, i. 179, n. 4; ‘seems a wit,’ i. 318, n. 4; mentioned, iii. 427. PHILIPS, C. C., a musician, his epitaph, i. 148; ii. 25; v. 348. PHILIPS, John, Cyder, a poem, v. 78. PHILIPS, Miss (Mrs. Crouch), iv. 227. PHILIPS, Mr., one of Johnson’s old friends, iv. 227. PHILOSOPHERS, ancient philosophers disputed with good humour, iii. 100; Edwards tries to be one, iii. 305; also White, ib., n. 2; French philosophers, ib. PHILOSOPHICAL NECESSITY, iii. 291, n. 2. PHILOSOPHICAL SOCIETY, iv. 36, n. 4. Philosophical Survey of the South of Ireland, ii.
339; iv. 320, n. 4. Philosophical Transactions, i. 309; ii. 40, n. 2. PHILOSOPHICAL WISE MAN, ii. 475. PHIPPS, Captain, v. 236, 392, n. 6. PHOCYLIDIS, v. 445. PHOENICIAN LANGUAGE, iv. 195. PHYSIC, a science and trade, iii. 22, n. 4; irregular practisers in it, iii. 389: See under JOHNSON, physic. PHYSICIAN, a foppish one, iv. 319; history of an unfortunate one, ii. 455; one recommended by Dr. Taylor, ii. 474; one not sober for twenty years, iii. 389; one who lost his practice by changing his religion, ii. 466. PHYSICIANS, ancients failed, moderns succeeded, iii. 22, n. 4; bag-wigs, wore, iii. 288; Fortune of Physicians, i. 242, n. 1; Hogarth’s pictures of one, iii. 288, n. 4; intruders, do not love, ii. 331, n. 1; Johnson celebrates their beneficence, iv. 263; has pleasure in their company, iv. 293; esteems them, v. 183; his conversation compared to the practice of one, ii. 15; title: See under DR. MEMIS. PIAZZAS, v. 115. PICKLES, ii. 219. Pickwick, story of the man who ate crumpets, iii. 384, n. 4. PIERESC, his death and papers, ii. 371. PIETY, comparative piety of women and wicked fellows, iv. 289; crazy piety, ii. 473. Piety in Pattens, ii. 48, n. 1. PIG, a learned, iv. 373. Pilgrim’s Progress, Fearing and the screen, i. 163, n. 1; Fearing and death, iv. 417, n. 2; Johnson praises it highly, ii. 238; wishes it longer, i. 71, n. 1. PILING ARMS, iii. 355. PILKINGTON, James, Present State of Derbyshire, iii. 161, n. 2. PILLORY, how far it dishonours, iii. 315; ‘a place or the pillory,’ iv. 113, n. 1; Parsons of the Cock Lane Ghost set in it, i. 406, n. 3. Pindar, Johnson asks Boswell to get him a copy, ii. 202; receives it, ii. 205; West’s translation, iv. 28. PINK, Dr., i. 194, n. 2. PINKERTON, John, iv. 330. PINO, ii. 451, n. 3. PIOZZI, Signor, account of him, iv. 339, n. 2; attacked by Baretti, iii. 49, n. 1; Thrale, Mrs., attached to him, iv. 158, n. 4; marries him, ii. 328, n. 4; iv. 339. PIOZZI, Mrs. See THRALE, Mrs. Piozzi Letters. See under MRS. THRALE, Johnson’s letters to her. Pit, to, iii. 185. PITCAIRNE, Archibald, v. 58. PITT, William. See Chatham, Earl of. PITT, William, the son, Boswell, neglects, iii. 213, n. 1, 464; iv. 261, n. 3; letter to him, iv. 261, n. 3; his answer, ib.; called to order, iv. 297, n. 2; Fox a political apostate, calls, iv. 297, n. 2; compared with, iv. 292; honesty of mankind, on the, iii. 236, n. 3; Johnson’s pension, proposed addition to, iv. 350, n. 1; Macaulay, attacked by, ib.; ministry, his, iv. 165, n. 3, 170, n. 1, 264, n. 2; motion for reform of parliament, iv. 165, n. 1; tax on horses, v. 51. PITTS, Rev. John, iv. 181, n. 3. PITY, not natural to man, i. 437. PLACE-HUNTERS, iii. 234. PLACES OF PUBLIC ENTERTAINMENT, v. 295, n. 2. PLAGUE OF LONDON, Dr. Hodges, ii. 341, n. 3. PLAIDS, v. 85. Plain Dealer, i. 156, 173, n. 3, 174. Plan of the Dictionary. See Dictionary. PLANTA, Joseph, ii. 399, n. 2. PLANTATIONS (settlements), ii. 12. PLANTERS. See AMERICA, planters. PLANTING TREES, Johnson recommends, iii. 207. See SCOTLAND, trees. PLASSEY, Battle of, v. 124, n. 2. PLAUTUS, quoted, i. 467, n. 2. PLAXTON, Rev. G., i. 36, n. 2. PLAYERS, action of all tragic players is bad, v. 38; below ballad-singers, iii. 184; Camden’s, Lord, familiarity with Garrick, iii. 311; change in their manners, i. 168; Churchill’s lines on them, i. 168, n. 1; Collier’s censure, i. 167, n. 2; dancing-dogs, like, ii. 404; declamation too measured, ii. 92, n. 4; drinking tea with a player, v. 46; emphasis wrong, i. 168; ‘fellow who claps a hump on his back,’ iii. 184; ‘fellow who exhibits himself for a shilling,’ ii. 234; Johnson’s prejudice against them shown in the Life of Savage, i. 167; Life of Dryden, ib., n. 2; more favourable judgment, i. 201; iv. 244, n. 2; lawyers, compared with, ii. 235; past compared with present, v. 126; Puritans, abhorred by, i. 168, n. 1; Reynolds defends them, ii. 234; transformation into characters, iv. 243-4; Whitehead’s compliment to Garrick, i. 402. See GARRICK, profession. PLEASED WITH ONESELF, iii. 328. PLEASING, negative qualities please more than positive, iii. 149. PLEASURE, aim of all our ingenuity, iii. 282; happiness, compared with, iii. 246; harmless pleasure, iii. 388; monastic theory of it, iii. 292; in itself a good, iii. 327; no man a hypocrite in it, iv. 316; partakers in it, iii. 328; ‘public pleasures counterfeit,’ iv. 316, n. 2. Pleasures of the Imagination. See AKENSIDE, MARK. Pledging oneself, iii. 196. PLINY, v. 220. PLOTT, Robert, History of Staffordshire, iii. 187. PLOWDEN, iv. 310. Plum, defined, iii. 292, n. 2. PLUNKET, W. C. (afterwards Lord), ii. 366, n. 2. PLUTARCH, Alcibiades quoted, iii. 267, n. 4; apophthegms and memorabilia, v. 414; biography, i. 31; Euphranor and Parrhasius, iv. 104, n. 2; Monboddo follows him in the approval of slavery, v. 77, n. 2; Solon quoted, iii. 255. PLYMOUTH, French ships of war in sight, iii. 326, n. 5; Johnson visits it, i. 377; hates a ‘docker,’ i. 379; mentioned, iv. 77. PLYMPTON, iv. 432. POCOCK, Dr. Edward, the Orientalist, iii. 269, n. 3; iv. 28. POCOCK, Mr., catalogue of sale of autographs, ii. 297, n. 2. POCOCKE, Richard, Travels, ii. 346. POEMS, preserved by tradition, ii. 347; temporary ones, iii. 318. POET-LAUREATES, i. 185, n. 1. Poetical Calendar, i. 382. Poetical Review of the Literary and Moral Character of Dr. Johnson. See COURTENAY, John. POETRY, devotional, iii. 358, n. 3; iv. 39; mediocrity in it, ii. 351; modern imitators of the early poets, ii. 136, 212; iii. 158-160; translated, cannot be, iii. 36, 257; what is poetry? iii. 38. POETS, collection of all the English poets proposed, iii. 158; English divided into four classes, i. 448, n. 2; fundamental principles, knowledge of, iii. 347; preserve languages, iii. 36; rarity, their, v. 86. Poets, Lives of the. See Lives of the Poets. Poets, The, Apollo Press edition, iii. 118. POKER CLUB, ii, 376, n. 1, 431, n. 1. POLAND, hospitality to strangers, iv. 18; Johnson wishes to visit it, iii. 456. Polemo-middinia, iii. 284. Polite Philosopher, The, iii. 22. POLITENESS, ‘fictitious benevolence,’ v. 82; its universal axiom, v. 82, n. 2. Politian, i. 90; iv. 371, n. 2. Political Conferences, iii. 309. POLITICAL IMPROVEMENT, schemes of, ii. 102. Political Survey of Great Britain, ii. 447. Political Tracts by the Author of the Rambler, ii. 315; copy in Pembroke College, ib., n. 2; attacked, ii. 315-317; preface to it suggested, ii. 441. POLITICS, modern, devoid of all principle, ii. 369; in the seventeenth century, ii. 369. ‘POLL,’ Miss Carmichael, iii. 368. Polluted, iv. 402, n. 2. POLYBIUS, ii. 35. POLYGAMY, v. 209, 217. POLYPHEME, i. 278. POLYPHEMUS, v. 82, n. 4. POMFRET, John, Johnson adds him to the Lives, iii. 370; his Choice, ib., n. 7. Pomponius Mela de situ Orbis, i. 465. Pomposo, i. 406. PONDICHERRY, v. 124, n. 2. PONSONBY, Hon. Mr., v. 263. POOR, cannot agree, ii. 103; condition of them the national distinction, ii. 130; deaths from hunger in London, iii. 401; education, ii. 188, n. 6: See under STATE; employment under the poor-law, iv. 3; France, in, ii. 390; ‘honour, have no,’ iii. 189; injured by indiscriminate hospitality, iv. 18; provision for them, ii. 130; rich, at the mercy of the, v. 304; superfluous meat for them, v. 204. POPE, Alexander, Addison’s ‘familiar day,’ iv. 91, n. 1; Adrian’s lines, translation of, iii. 420, n. 2; Beggar’s Opera, his expectation about the, ii. 369, n. 1; Benson’s monument to Milton, v. 95, n. 2; Blair, anecdotes of him by, iii. 402-3; bleeding, advised to try, iii. 152, n. 3; Blount, Martha, i. 232, n. 1. Bolingbroke’s present to Booth, v. 126, n. 2; Bolingbroke’s enmity, i. 329; Bolingbroke, Lady, described by, iii. 324; ‘borrows for want of genius,’ v. 92, n. 4; Budgell, Eustace, ii. 229, n. 1; Characters of Men and Women, ii. 84; Cibber’s Careless Husband, ii. 340, n. 4; iii. 72, n. 4; condensing sense, art of, v. 345; confidence in himself, i. 186, n. 1; Congreve, dedicates the Iliad to, iv. 50, n. 4; conversation, iii. 392, n. 1; iv. 49; Cooke, correspondence with, v. 37, n. 1; Cowley out of fashion, iv. 102, n. 2; Crousaz’s Examen, i. 137; death, reflection on the day of his, iii. 165; his death imputed to a saucepan, i. 269, n. 1; death-bed confession, v. 175, n. 5; Dodsley, assisted, ii. 446, n. 4; Dryden, distinguished from, ii. 5, 85; in his boyhood saw him, i. 377; n. 1; Dunciad, annotators, its, iv. 306, n. 3; concluding lines, ii. 84; Dennis’s thunder, iii. 40, n. 2; resentment of those attacked, ii. 61, n. 4; written for fame, ii. 334; Dying Christian to his Soul, iii. 29; Elegy to the memory of an unfortunate Lady, i. 173 n. 2; epigram on Lord Stanhope attributed to him, iv. 102, n. 4; Epitaph on Mrs. Corbet, iv. 235, n. 2; Epitaphs, Johnson’s Dissertation on his, i. 335; Essay on Criticism, ii. 36, n. 1; iv. 217, n. 4; Essay on Man, Bolingbroke’s share in it, iii. 402-3; Warburton’s comments, ii. 37, n. 1; fame, his, sai
d to have declined, ii. 84; iii. 332; female-cousin, his, iii. 71, n. 5; Fermor, Mrs., describes him, ii. 392; Flatman, borrowed from, iii. 29; friends, his, iii. 347; iv. 50; gentlemen, on the ignorance of, iv. 217, n. 4; Goldsmith’s reflection on his ‘strain of pride,’ iii. 165, n. 3; Greek, knowledge of, iii. 403; grotto, his, iv. 9; verses on it, iv. 51; happy, says that he is, iii. 251; Homer, his, attacked by Bentley, iii. 256, n. 4; and Cowper, iii. 257, n. 1; praised by Johnson, iii. 257; and Gray, ib., n. 1; his pretended reason for translating it into blank verse, ii. 124, n. 1; written on the covers of letters, i. 143, n. 1; Iliad, written slowly, i. 319, n. 3; Odyssey, translated by the help of associates, iv. 49; imitations, fondness for, i. 118, n. 5; intimidated by prosecution of P. Whitehead, i. 125, n. 3; Johnson criticises his Ode on St. Cecilia’s Day, iv. 16, n. 4; defends him as a poet, iv. 46; Dictionary, apparently interested in, i. 182; estimate of the Dunciad, ii. 84, n. 4; recommends, to Lord Gower, i. 132, n. 1, 133, 143; to J. Richardson, ib.; translates his Messiah, i. 61, 272; ‘will soon be déterré,’ i. 129; ii. 85; writes his Life, iv. 46-7; labour his pleasure, ii. 99, n. 1; laugh, did not, ii. 378, n. 2; Lewis’s verses to him, iv. 307; Lintot, quarrels with, i. 435, n. 4; Lords, gave all his friendship to, iii. 347; ‘low-born Allen,’ v. 80, n. 5; Mallet paid to attack his memory, i. 329; ‘Man never is but always to be blest’ ii. 350; Marchmont’s, Earl of, anecdotes of him, iii. 342-5, 392, 418; Pope’s executor, iv. 51; Memoirs of Scriblerus, v. 44, n. 4; mill, his mind a, v. 265; Miscellanies, transplants an indecent piece into his, iv. 36, n. 4; lines applicable to Gibbon, ii. 133, n. 1; ‘modest Foster,’ iv. 9; monument proposed in St. Paul’s, ii. 239; ‘narrow man, a,’ ii. 271, n. 2; ‘nodded in company,’ iii. 392, n. 1; pamphlets against him, kept the, iv. 127; ‘paper-sparing,’ i. 142; papers left at his death, iv. 51, n. 1; parents, behaviour to his, i. 339, n. 3; parodied by I.H. Browne, ii. 339, n. 1; parsimony, i. 143, n. 1; Pastorals, ii. 84; Patriot King, clandestinely printed copies of the, i. 329, n. 3; pensioners, satirises, i. 375; Philips, Ambrose, attacks, i. 179, n. 4; pleasure in writing, iv. 219, n. 1; Prendergast and Sir John Friend, ii. 183; priests where a monkey is the god, ii. 135, n. 1; Prince of Wales, repartee to the, iv. 50; Radcliffe’s doctors, iv. 293, n. 1; Rape of the Lock, ii. 392, n. 8; reading, his, i. 57, n. 1; ii. 36, n. 1; of the modern Latin poets, i. 90, n. 2; Rich, anecdote of, iv. 246, n. 5; Ruffhead’s Life of Pope, ii. 166; Settle, the City Poet, iii. 76, n. 1; Seventeen hundred and thirty-eight, i. 125, n. 3, 126, 127, n. 3; Shakespeare, edition of, v. 244, n. 2; Spence at Oxford, visits, iv. 9; Steele, letter to, iii. 165, n. 3; Swift, his prudent management for, iii. 20, n. 1; Swift’s letter on parting with him, iii. 312; Theobald, revenge on, ii. 334, n. 1; introduces him in the Dunciad, iii. 395, n. 1; Tory and Whig, called a, iii. 91; Tyburn psalm, iv. 189, n. 1; Tyrawley, Lord, ii. 211, n. 4; ‘un politique’ &c., iii. 324; valetudinarian, iii. 152, n. 1; vanity, iii. 347, n. 2; Verses on his Grotto, iv. 51; Latin translation, i. 157; versification, ii. 84, n. 6; iv. 46; Voltaire, i. 499, n. 1; Walpole’s ‘happier hour,’ iii. 57, n. 2; Warburton at first attacks him, v. 80; defends him, i. 329; makes him a Christian, ii. 37, n. 1; made by him a bishop, ib.; Ward the quack-doctor, iii. 389, n. 5; Warton’s Essay, i. 448; ii. 167; wit, definition of, v. 32, n. 3.