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.
POPE, quotations,
_Dunciad_, i. 41, iv. 189, n. 1; i. 87, iii. 76, n. 1; i. 141,
i. 55, n. 2; i. 253, ii. 321, n. 1; (first edition) iii. 149,
v. 419, n. 2; iii. 325, i. 227, n. 4; iv. 90, i. 266, n. 1; iv. 111,
v. 95, n. 2; iv. 167, iii. 182, n. 1; iv. 249, v. 219, n. 2; iv. 342,
iii. 199, n. 2;
_Eloisa to Abelard_, i. 38, i. 272; i. 134, v. 325, n. 2;
_Epitaph on Craggs_, iv. 445;
_Essay on Criticism_, i. 66, iii. 72; i. 297, v. 32, n. 3; i. 370,
v. 290, n. 3;
_Essay on Man_, i. 99, iii. 98, n. 2; i. 221, iv. 373, n. 2;
ii. 20, iii. 80, 253, n. 3; ii. l0, i. 202; iii. 3, iv. 270, n. 2;
iv. 57, ii. 9, n. 1 iv. 219, v. 83, n. 2; iv. 267, iii. 82, n. 2;
iv. 380, iii. 342; iv. 383, iii. 19; n. l; iv. 390, iv. 420;
_Moral Essays_, i. 69, i. 3; i. 174, iv. 316, n. 2; ii. 275, i. 249;
iii. 25, iii. 346, n. 3; iii. 242, i. 481; iii. 392, i. 375, n. 2;
_Prologue to Addison's Cato_, i. 30;
_Satires, Prologue_, l. 99, i. 318; l. 135, i. 251, n. 2; l. 247,
i. 227, n. 4; l. 259, ii. 368, n. 1; l. 283, iii. 328; l. 350,
v. 415, n. 4; 1. 378, ii. 229, n. 1;
_Satires, Epilogue, i. 29, iii. 57, n. 2; iv. 364, n. 1; i. 131,
iv. 9, n. 5; i. 135, iii. 48, n. 2; ii. 70, i. 508; ii. 283, n. 1;
iv. 29, n. 1; ii. 208, iii. 380, n. 1;
_Imitations of Horace, Epistles_, i. vi. 3, ii. 158, n. 2; i.
vi. 120, ii. 211, n. 4; i. vi. 126, iii. 386, n. 4; ii. i. 14,
v. 372, n. 2; ii. i. 71, i. 118; ii. i. 75, iv. 102, n. 2; ii. i. 180,
iii. 389, n. 5; ii. i. 221, ii. 132, n. 2; ii. ii. 23, iii. 237, n. 2;
ii. ii. 78, v. 265, n. 1; ii. ii. 157, i. 220; ii. ii. 276, i. 127, n. 4;
_Satires_, ii. i. 67, iii. 91, n. 6; ii. i. 78, iv. 318, n. 2;
ii. ii. 3, i. 105, n. 1;
_Universal Prayer_, iii. 346.
POPE, Mrs., i. 499, n. 1.
POPE, Dr. Walter, iv. 19.
POPERY. See ROMAN CATHOLICS.
POPULAR ELECTIONS, of the clergy, ii. 149.
POPULATION,
America, increase in, ii. 314;
changes in density, ii. 101-2;
comparative population of counties in 1756, i. 307, n. 4;
emigration, how far affected by, iii. 232-3;
high convenience where it is large, v. 27.
PORSON, Richard,
Bentley not a Scotchman, ii. 363, n. 4;
described by Dr. Parr, iv. 385, n. 2;
Hawkins, Sir J., ridicules, i. 224, n. 1; ii. 57, n. 5; iv. 370, n. 5;
natural abilities, ii. 437, n. 2.
PORT, family of, iii. 187.
PORT, liquor for men, iii. 381; iv. 79.
PORT ELIOT, iv. 334.
PORTER, Endymion, v. 137, n. 4.
PORTER, Henry (Mrs. Johnson's first husband),
Birmingham mercer, i. 86;
family registry of births, &c., i. 94, n. 3;
insolvency, i. 95, n. 3;
mentioned, iv. 77.
PORTER, Captain (Henry Porter's son), i. 94, n. 3; ii. 462.
PORTER, ---- (Henry Porter's son), ii. 388; iv. 89;
death, iv. 256.
PORTER, Sir James, iii. 402.
PORTER, Mrs. (afterwards Mrs. Johnson). See under JOHNSON, Mrs.
PORTER, Mrs., the actress, i. 369, 382; iv. 243; ib., n. 6.
PORTER, Miss Lucy (Henry Porter's daughter and Johnson's stepdaughter),
birth, i. 94, n. 3;
Boswell calls on her, ii. 462; iii. 412, 414;
Dodd's _Convicts Address_, reads, iii. 141, n. 2;
fortune, her, and house, ii. 462;
Johnson's account of her, i. 370;
earlier letters to her, ii. 387, n. 3
(for his letters, See under JOHNSON, letters);
feelings towards her, i. 515; ii. 462, n. 1;
her feelings towards, ii. 462, 469;
memory, i. 40;
personal appearance, i. 94;
present to her of a box, ii. 387;
prologue to Kelly's comedy, disowns, iii. 114, n. 1;
will, not in, iv. 402, n. 2;
mother's wedding-ring, does not value her, i. 237;
residence in Lichfield, i. 110, 346, n. 1, 347, 515;
verses said to be addressed to her, i. 92, n. 2;
mentioned, i. 103, 340, n. 1, 512; ii. 468; iii. 132, 417; iv. 374, 394.
PORTER, A STREET-, Johnson drives a load off his back, iv. 71.
PORTER, Johnson sends a present of, ii. 272, 275.
PORTEUS, Beilby, Bishop of Chester (afterwards of London),
Boswell, attentive to, iii. 413, 415;
Jenyns's, Soame, conversion, i. 316, n. 2;
_Life of Secker_, iv. 29;
reverend fops, iv. 76;
Sunday knotting, iii. 242, n. 3;
mentioned, iii. 124, 279, 280.
PORTLAND, third Duke of, iii. 224, n. 1; iv. 174, n. 3.
See COALITION MINISTRY.
PORTLAND, Dowager Duchess of, iii. 425.
PORTMORE, Lord, Johnson's letter to him, iv. 268, n. 1.
PORTRAITS,
their chief excellence, v. 219;
portrait-painting, improper for women, ii. 362;
of Johnson: See under JOHNSON, portraits.
PORTUGAL, iii. 23, 445.
PORTUGAL PIECES, iv. 104.
PORTUGUESE, discovery of the Indies, i. 455; n. 3; ii. 479;
iii. 204, n. 1; iv. 12, n. 2.
POSSIBILITIES, v. 46.
POST,
Brighton, to, iii. 92, n. 3;
double letters, i. 283, n. 1;
franking letters, iii. 364; iv. 361, n. 3;
penny-post, i. 121, 151;
postage from Lisbon, iii. 23;
to Oxford, i. 283, n. 1.
POST-CHAISE,
driving from, or to something, iii. 5, 457;
Gibbon delights in them, ii. 453, n. 1;
also Johnson, ii. 453;
if accompanied by a pretty woman, iii. 162;
in 1758, v. 56, n. 2.
POST-HORSES, charge per mile, v. 427.
POSTERITY, prescribing rules to, ii. 417.
POT, Mr., iv. 5, n. 1.
POTT, Rev. Archdeacon, ii. 459.
POTT, Mr., a surgeon, iv. 239.
POTTER, Robert, translation of Aeschylus, iii. 256.
POVERTY,
'All this excludes but one evil--poverty,' iii. 160;
arguments for it, i. 441;
a great evil, iv. 149, 152, 155, 157, 163, 351.
POWELL, a clerk, iv. 223, n. 3.
POWER,
all power desirable, ii. 357;
despotic, iii. 283;
of the Crown, ii. 170.
POWERSCOURT, Lord, v. 253.
PRACTICE. See PRINCIPLES.
PRAGUE, iii. 458.
PRAISE,
on compulsion, ii. 51;
extravagant, iii. 225; iv. 82;
value of it, iv. 32, 255, n. 2.
PRATT, Chief Justice. See CAMDEN, Lord.
PRAYER,
arguments against it, v. 38;
dead, for the, ii. 163;
efficacy, its, v. 68;
family prayer, v. 121;
form of prayer, v. 365;
Hume on Leechman's doctrine, v. 68, n. 4;
Johnson designs a _Book of Prayers_, iv. 293, 376;
offered a large sum for one, iv. 410;
lies in prayers, iv. 295;
reasoning on its nature unprofitable, ii. 178.
PRAYERS, by Johnson,
against inquisitive and perplexing thoughts, iv. 370, n. 3;
before his last communion, iv. 416-7;
before study, iii. 90;
before the study of law, i. 489;
Chambers, Catherine, for, ii. 43;
death of his wife, on the, i. 235;
_Dictionary_, on beginning vol. ii. of his, i. 255;
Easter Day, 1777, iii. 99;
engaging in Politicks with H----, i. 489;
forgiveness for neglect of duties in married life, i. 240;
January 1, 1753, i. 251;
new scheme of life, i. 350;
'On my return to life,' i. 234, n. 2;
_Rambler_, before the, i. 202;
repentance and pardon, for, iv. 397;
resolutions, on, i. 483;
study of philosophy, on the, i. 302;
Trinity, the, invoked, ii. 255.
_Prayers and Meditations_, Johnson's, i. 235, n. 1; ii. 476;
publication, iv. 376, n. 4.
PREACHERS, women, i. 463.
PREACHING,
above the capacity of the congregation, iv. 185;
plain language needed, i. 459; ii. 123.
_Preceptor, The_, i. 192.
PRECISENESS, iv. 89.
PRECOCITY, ii. 408.
PREDESTINATION, ii. 104.
PREFACES, Johnson's talent for, i. 292.
PREMIER, i. 295, n. 1.
PREMIUM-SCHEME, i. 318.
PRENDERGAST (Prendergrass), an officer, ii. 182, 183, n. 1.
_Presbyterian_, in the sense of _Unitarian_, ii. 408, n. 1.
PRESBYTERIANS AND PRESBYTERIANISM,
compared with Church of Rome, ii. 103;
differ from it chiefly in forms, ii. 150;
doctrine, ii. 104;
form of prayer, no, ii. 104;
frightened by Popery, v. 57.
PRESCIENCE, of the Deity, iii. 290.
PRESCRIPTION OF MURDER. See MURDER.
_Present State of England_, iv. 311.
PRESENT TIME, never happy, ii. 350.
PRESENT TIMES, Johnson never inveighed against them, iii. 3.
PRESS,
awed by parliament as regards report of debates, i. 115; iii. 459-60;
iv. 140, n. 1;
complete freedom obtained, i. 116;
Johnson attacks its liberty, ii. 60;
vindicates it, ib., n. 3;
discusses it with Dr. Parr, iv. 15, n. 5;
Mansfield tries to stifle it, i. 116, n. 1;
law of libel, iii. 16, n. 1;
licentiousness, its, i. 116;
debate on it, iv. 318, n. 3;
prosecutions in 1764, ii. 60, n. 3;
superfoetation, its, iii. 332.
PRESS-GANGS, iii. 460.
PRESTBURY, v. 432, n. 2.
PRESTICK, ii. 271, n. 4.
PRESTON, iii. 135, n. 1.
PRESTON, Sir Charles, iv. 154.
PRETENDER, the Young,
account of his escape, v. 187-205, 264;
dresses in women's clothes, v. 188;
at Kingsburgh, v. 185, 189;
shoes, ib.;
in Rasay, v. 174, n. 1, 190-4;
fears assassination, v. 194;
speaks of Culloden, ib.;
returns to Sky, v. 195;
pretends to be a servant, v. 195, 196-7;
his odd face, v. 196;
goes to Mackinnon's country, v. 197;
to Knoidart, v. 199;
reward offered for him, v. 186, 199, n. 1;
agitating a rebellion in 1752, i. 146, n. 2;
base character, his, v. 200, n. 1;
Charles III, ii. 253;
Derby, march to, iii. 162;
designation proper for him, v. 185, n. 4;
Johnson sleeps in his bed, v. 185;
London, in, i. 279, n. 5; v. 196, n. 2, 201;
Voltaire's reflections on him, v. 199.
PRICE, Archdeacon, v. 454.
PRICE, Dr. Richard
account of him, iv. 434;
Hume, dines with, ii. 441, n. 5;
Johnson would not meet him, iv. 238, n. 1, 434;
London-born children, iv. 210.
PRICE, ----, a vain Welsh scholar, v. 438.
_Prideauxs Connection_, iv. 311.
PRIESTLEY, Dr. Joseph,
Boswell attacks him, iv. 238, n. 1, 433;
Parr defends him, iv. 238, n. 1, 434;
discoveries in chemistry, iv. 237, n. 6, 238;
Elwall's trial, account of, ii. 164, n. 5;
Franklin praises his moderation, iv. 434;
Gibbon and Horsley attack him, iv. 437;
Heberden, Dr., a benefactor to him, iv. 228, n. 2;
house burnt by rioters, iv. 238, n. 1;
'index-scholar,' iv. 407, n. 4;
Johnson's estimate of his writings, iv. 407, n. 4;
interview with, iv. 434;
on the pronunciation of Latin, ii. 404, n. 1;
Mackintosh's character of him, iv. 443;
Philosophical necessity, iii. 291, n. 2; iv. 433-4;
Shelburne, Lord, lives with, iv. 191, n. 4;
theological works, ii. 124.
PRIESTS, enemies to liberty, v. 255, n. 5.
PRIME MINISTER, name and office, ii. 355; n. 2;
not in Johnson's _Dictionary_, i. 295, n. 1;
no real one since Walpole's time, ii. 355.
PRIMROSE, Lady, v. 201.
PRINCE, the bookseller, i. 291.
PRINCE FREDERICK (brother of George III), v. 185, n. 1,
PRINCE OF WALES, happiest of men, i. 368, n. 3; iv. 182.
PRINCE OF WALES (Frederick, father of George III),
generosity, shows, v. 188, n. I;
Mallet's dependence on him, i. 329, n. 3;
Pope's repartee to him, iv. 50;
Vane, Anne, his mistress, v. 49, n. 4.
PRINCE OF WALES (George III), v. 185, n. 1.
PRINCE OF WALES (George IV),
Boswell carries up an address to him, iv. 248, n. 2;
insolence, his, iv. 270, n. 2;
Johnson pleased with his knowledge of the Scriptures as a child, ii. 33,
n. 3;
language as a young man, his, ib.;
Thurlow and Sir John Ladd, iv. 412, n. 1.
PRINCESS OF WALES, Dowager, (mother of George III),
presents to Lord Bute, iv. 127, n. 3.
_Prince Titi_, ii. 391.
_Prince Voltiger_, ii. 108.
PRINCIPLE, goodness founded upon it, i. 443;
things founded on no principle, v. 159.
PRINCIPLES, general, must be had from books, ii. 361.
PRINCIPLES and practice, i. 418, n. 3; ii. 341; iii. 282; iv. 396;
v. 210, 359.
PRINGLE, Sir John,
Johnson could not agree with him, iii. 65; v. 376, 384;
madness, on the cause of, iii. 176, n. 1;
President of the Royal Society, iii. 65, n. 1;
Smith's _Wealth of Nations_, ii. 430;
mentioned, ii. 59, n. 3, 164; iii. 7, 15, n. 2, 247; v. 97.
PRINTER'S DEVIL, iv. 99.
PRINTERS, keeping their coach, ii. 226;
wages of journeymen, ii. 323.
PRINTING, early printed books, v. 459;
effect on learning, iii. 37;
people without it barbarous, ii. 170.
PRIOR, Sir James,
Johnson's projected _Life of Goldsmith_, iii. 100, n. 1.
PRIOR, Matthew, amorous pedantry, iii. 192, n. 2;
_Animula vagtila_, translation of, iii. 420, n. 2;
borrowing, instances of his, iii. 396;
_Chameleon_, ii. 158, n. I;
_Despairing Shepherd_, ii. 78, n. 2;
Goldsmith republishes two of his poems, iii. 192, n. 2;
_Gualterus Danistonus ad Amicos_, translation of, iii. 119, n. 6;
Hailes, Lord, censured by, iii. 192;
lady's book, a, iii. 192;
love verses, ii. 78;
'My noble, lovely little Peggy,' iii. 425, n. 2;
_Paulo Purganti_, iii. 192;
Pitcairne, translation from, v. 58.
PRIOR PARK, v. 80, n. 5.
PRISONS, Johnson's praise of a good keeper, iii. 433.
See under LONDON, Newgate, &c.
PRITCHARD, Mrs., the actress, good but affected, v. 126;
_Irene_, acted, i. 197;
in common life a vulgar idiot, iv. 243;
mechanical player, ii. 348;
mentioned, ii. 92.
PRIVATE CONVERSATION, iv. 216.
PRIZE-FIGHTING, v. 229.
PRIZE VERSES, in the _Gent. Mag_., i. 91, n. 2, 136.
PRIZES, money arising from, ii. 353, n. 4.
_Probationary Odes for the Laureateship_,
A Great Personage, i. 219, n. 3;
Boswell ridiculed, i. 116, n. 1;
and the two Wartons, ii. 41, n. 1.
PROBATIONER, cause of a, ii. 171.
_Probus Britannicus_, i. 141.
_Procerity_, i. 308.
_Prodigious_, iii. 231, n. 4, 303; v. 396, n. 3.
PROFESSION,
choice of one, v. 47;
misfortune not to be bred to one, iii. 309, n. 1;
time and mind given to one not very great, ii. 344.
_Profession, The_, iii. 285, n. 2.
PROFESSIONAL MAN, solemnity of manner, iv. 310.
_Profitable Instructions, &c._, i. 431, n. 2.
PROFUSION, iii. 195.
_Progress of Discontent_, i. 283, n. 2.
_Project, The_, iii. 318.
_Project for the Employment of Authors_, i. 306, n. 3.
_Prologue at the Opening of Drury Lane Theatre_, i. 181; ii. 69;
iv. 25, 310.
PRONUNCIATION,
difficulty of fixing it, ii. 161;
Irish, Scotch, and provincial, ii. 158-160.
_Properantia_, i. 223.
PROPERTY, depends on chastity, ii. 457;
permanent property, ii. 340.
PROPITIATION, doctrine of the, iv. 124; v. 88.
