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 MACHE, 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 (Chatelet), Hotel 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;
_Ecole Militaire_, ii. 389, 402;
_Enfans trouves_, 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;
Greve, 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 Vendome_, 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, Bach 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;
