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, said 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 deterre,' 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;
