Defcended from a
Educated at Dublin

Parnell, Thomas, his life by Goldfmith, iii. 17.
Cheshire family, born at Dublin 1679, 18.
univerfity, 18. Archdeacon of Clogher 1705, 18. Married Anne
Minchen, 18. Joins the Tories in the latter end of Queen Anne's
reign, 18. Becomes too fond of the bottle, 18. Died July 1717,
in his way to Ireland, 19. Character of his works, 20. Wrote
the life of Homer prefixed to Pope's tranflation of the Iliad, iv.
27. His poems published by Pope in 1721, 47.

Pafferatius, Jo. poema ad Erricum Memmium, ii. 202.
Paffion, the ruling, theory of, iv. 73.

Pafions, perfons under the predominant influence of them exceedingly
offenfive to others, v. 66. Natural and adfcititious, ftrong motives
of action, 314, 315. Excited by sympathy, 443.

Paftorals, generally the first productions of a poet, iv. 110.

Paftoral Poetry, the progrefs of, iv. 191.

Paftoral Life, a glimpfe of the state of happiness in, xi. 56.

Paftor Fido, fpecimen of Waller's tranflation of, ii. 271.

Patience, the ufefulness of it in alleviating the miseries of human life,
v. 209. Motives to the exercise of patience and fubmission under
the fevereft afflictions, 212, 213.

Patriots, their conduct confidered and reprobated, x. 65. 78.
Patriot, addreffed to the electors of Great Britain [1774.] x. 80. Cha-
racterized, 81. No claim to that character from an acrimonious and
unremitting oppofition to the Court, 81. The true lover of his
country, 83. Marks of a man not being a Patriot, 87.

Patriotism, no man can be born a lover of his country, iv. 73.
Patrons, their avarice of praise and flattery, vi. 217. Often corrupted
by avarice, and deluded by credulity, vii. 118.

Paul V. Pope, account of the quarrel between him and the Venetians,

iv. 324.

Paul, Father. See Sarpi.

Paufes, their influence on the harmony of poetical measures, vi. 117.
Peat, account of the nature of that fuel, x. 441.

Pedantry, the perfons to whom the cenfures of it may be justly ap
plied, vii. 195. The fear of it often produces it, 198.

Peevishness, a fpecies of depravity, difgufting and offenfive, vi. 19.
Sometimes the effect of distemper or affliction, 20, 21. Exempli-
fied in the character of Tetrica, 20, 21. Perfons of this temper
the fources of peculiar affliction to their dependents, 261. A due
attention to the dignity of human nature a proper prefervative and
remedy against this vice of narrow minds, 263.

Peirefe, the fate of his MSS. viii. 260..

Pekuah, lady, is carried of by Arabs, xi. 92. The Princefs Nekayah's
forrow for the lofs of, 96. She is recovered from the Arabs, 101.
Her adventures amongst the Arabs, 103.

Penfive man characterized, ii. 150.

Pepys Ifland. See Falkland's lands.

Perdita, her flory, viii. 168.

Perfection in compofitions, the effect of attention and diligence, vii.
170. The methods by which the ancients attained to an eminence
therein, 171....

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Periander,

Periander, his opinion of the importance of reftraining anger, v. 66.
Periodical Effays, the difficulties of carrying them on, viii. 1. The
advantages of writing in, 7. New ones under the fame disadvan-
tages as new plays, 9.

Perfeverance, its refiftless force and excellence, v. 279. In intellectual
purfuits neceffary to eminence in learning and judgment, vi. 419.
The advantages of, xi. 43.

Perfians, their contempt for men who violated the laws of fecrecy, v. 8 r.
Perfian Tales, tranflated by Ambrofe Philips, iv. 190..

Perfius, his opinion of learning, ix. 63.

Pertinax, his kill in disputation, vi, 152.

Petitions, their progrefs, x. 25. By whom generally fupported, 26.
Petrarch, his fame filled the world with amorous ditties, ii. 9.
Peevishness, the fatal effects of, vi. 261.

Philips, Ambrofe, his life, iv. 189. Educated at St. John's College,
Cambridge, 189. Published his Paftorals before 1708, 189. A
zealous Whig; 189: Tranflates the Perfian Tales for Tonfon, 190.
Writes the Diftreffed Mother, and tranflates Racine's Andromache,
190. The Epilogue to Andromache written. by Budgel, 191.
The malevolence between him and Pope, 193. Commiffioner of
the Lottery, 1717, and made Justice of the Peace, 195. Writes the
Briton, a Tragedy, 1721, and alfo Humphrey Duke of Gloucefter,
195. Undertakes a periodical publication, called the Free Thinker,
195. Appointed Secretary to Boulter, Primate of Ireland, 195.
Chofen to reprefent the county' of Armagh, 196. Secretary to the
Lord Chancellor, and Judge of the Prerogative Court, 196. Re-
turns to London 1748, and died 1749, 197. His character, 197.
His works characterized, 197. :.

Philips, Claude, an itinerant mufician, lines on, xi. 367.

Philips, Jobn, his life, ii. 287. Born at Bampton, Oxfordshire, Dec.
, 30, 1676, 287. Son of Dr. Stephen Philips, Archdeacon of Salop,
287. Educated at Winchefter, where he diftinguished himself by
the fuperiority of his exercifes, 287. Became acquainted with the
Entered at Oxford, 1694. 288. Intended
poets very early, 288.
for the ftudy of Phyfick, and ftudied particularly Natural Hiftory,
288. Wrote his Splendid Shilling, 1703, 288. Blenheim, 1705.
Cider, 1706. Began his Laft Day, 289. Died Feb. 15, 1708,
and buried in Hereford Cathedral, 289. His Epitaph at Hereford,
289. A monument erected to his memory in Weftminster-Abbey,
by Sir Simon Harcourt, with the infcription by Dr. Atterbury, 289.
His character, 291. Character of his works, 292. A copyer of
the ftyle of Milton, 292. Account of him by Edmund Smith, 295.
Account of his family and brothers, 296. Character of his works,
298. Note on Smith's account of him, 303. Described in the
affembly of bards, xi. 176.

Philips, John and Edward (nephews of Milton), fome account of them,
ii. 83.

Philips, Mrs. her opinion of fome of the writings of Lord Rofcommon,
Her Pompey brought on the Irish ftage, 215.

ii. 214.

Philomides, his reflections on the excellence and utility of good-humour,

Philo

Philotryphas, his character, v. 255-

Phyfick, mathematicks recommended in the science of Phyfick, by Bo-
erhaave, iv. 342.

Phyficians, a pleafing character of, iii. 23. Proceedings on a plan for
attending the poor gratis, 23. In a great city the mere play.
thing of fortune, iv. 289. Have the second claim of benefit to man-
kind, 339.

Picus Mirandula, his Epitaph, ix. 439.

Pilgrimages enquired into, xi. 34.

Pindar, obfervations on the poetry of, ii. 52. His odes difcovered to
be regular by Congreve, iii. 171. Welt's tranflation characterized,
iv. 202.

Pirate and thief contrasted, x. 40.

Pitt, Chriftopher, his life, iv. 159. Son of a Phyfician at Blandford,
born 1699, 159. Entered a scholar at Winchester College, 1714,
removed to New College, 1719, 159. Tranflates Lucan before he
was twenty years of age, 159. Prefented to the Rectory of Pinpern,
Dorfetfhire, 160. Tranflates Vida's Art of Poetry, 160. Tranflates
the Eneid, 161. Died 1748, and his Epitaph, 162.
Plagiarism, not to be charged upon authors merely for fimilarity of
fentiment, ix. 78. A charge often unjustly urged to the prejudice
of fome authors, vii. 14. Some inftances of the truth of this re-
mark with regard to fome of the claffick writers, 14.
Plantations, confiderations on, x. 490.

Plays a&ted in the Universities before Kings and Queens, ii. 88.
Player, requifites to form a good one, ii. 217.

Pleafing others, the art of it a pleasing acquifition, vi. 209. Its ex-
cellency fhould engage us to cultivate it in proportion to its usefulness,

/210.

Pleafure, the mind corrupted and debafed by the purfuit of immoral,
v. 286. The gratification of sensual, volatile, vi. 42. The fatal
rock in the ocean of life, 42. The variation of, with the feasons,
339. Of contemplation and virtue preferable to that of the fen'es,
3+3. The effence of, confifts in choice, 406. Senfitive and ani-
mal, derive their agreeablenefs from novelty, 409. The danger of
purfuing the allurements to unlawful, vii. 283. Defined, viii. 232.
Enquiry into the diftinction between it and pain, x. 200. On the
pleasure arifing from pity, 204. The pleafure in feeing a tragedy
reprefented, 204. The pleasure arifing from the imitative arts con-
tidered, 206.

Pleafures of mankind, generally counterfeit, viii. 68. Seldom fuch as
they appear to others, 68. Of ladies at a mufical performance, 68.
Pleafures of the Town, remarks on, v. 296.

Plenty, Peter, his complaint of his wife's buying bargains, viii. 138.
Poemata, Jan. 20, 21, 1773, xi. 383. Dec. 25, 1779, 383. In
Lecto, die Paffionis, Apr. 13, 1781, 384. In Lecto, Dec. 25, 1782,
384. Note inter 16 & 17 Junii, 1783, 384. Cal. Jan, in lecto,
ante lucem, 1784, 385. Jan. 18, 1734, 385. Feb. 27, 1784, 386.
Chriftianus perfectus, 386. Jejunium & cibus, 388. In rivum a
mola Stoana Lichfeldiæ diffluentem, 389. Frat Ecautor. Poft
Lexicon Anglicanum au&tum & emendatum, 389. Ad Th. Lau

rence,

rence, M. D. cum filium peregre agentem defiderio nimis trifti profequeretur, 391. In Theatro, March 8, 1771, 392. Infula Kennethi inter Hebridas, 393. Skia, 394. Ode de Skia infula, 394. Spes, 395. Verfus, collari capræ domini Banks infcribendi, 396. Ad fœminam quandam generofam quæ libertatis caufæ in Sermone patrocinata fuerat, 396. Jactura temporis, 396. Ek Bigxor, 397. Εἰς τὸ τῆς Ελίσσης περὶ τῶν ὄνειρων "Αινιγμα, 397. In Eliza enigma, 397. Meffia, 398. Latin verfions of four collects in the Liturgy, 402. Pfalmus cxvii. 403. Latin verfion of "Bufy curious thirty Fly," 404. Latin verfion of three fentences on the monument of John of Doncafter, 404. Tranflation of a fong in Walton's Complete Angler, 405. Verfion of Pope's Verfes on his own Grotto, 406. Græcorum epigrammatum verfiones metricæ, 407. Pompeii epigrammata, 421. Epicteti epigramma, 426. E Theocrito, 426. E Euripidis Medea, 426. Septem Etates, 427. Geogra phia metrica Templemanni Latine redditus, 428. Port, advertisement to the edition of the Lives of the Poets, of 1783, ii. 3. Metaphyfical, what, 22. Critical remarks on this kind of writing, 26. Dryden's opinion on the queftion, Whether a poet can judge well of his own productions? 315. Do not make the beft parents, exemplified in Dr. Young, iv. 256. Ancient, exceptionable teachers of morality, v. 188. The forbearance due to young ones, viii. 98. The general knowledge neceffary for, xi. 30. Poetry, obfervations on occafional compofitions, ii. 389. A fimile defcribed, iii. 87. On the neglect of poetical juftice, 92. Similes in poetry confidered, iv. 118. That Sound fhould feem the echo of the Senfe, confidered, 119. Harmony the end of its meafure, vi. 117. The parallel of, with Painting, viii. 134. The easy, characterized, 308. Obfervations on affectation in, 309. A differtation on, xi. 29. Early writers in poffeffion of nature, their followers of art, xi. 29. To Mifs *****, on her giving the author a gold and filk net-work purfe, of her own weaving, 356. To Mifs *****, on her playing upon the harpsichord, in a room hung with flower-pieces of her own painting, 357. To a friend, 360. Written at the request of a Gentleman to whom a Lady had given a sprig of myrtle, 363. Lines in ridicule of certain poems published in 1777, 375. Imitation of the flyle of ****, 377. Poetry, Poetical devotion cannot often please, ii. 266. Characterized, 267. Poetry, Paftoral, generally the first productions of a poet, iv. 110. The peculiar beauties of it, v. 232. The difficulty of fucceeding in it, 235, 237. Mere nature to be principally regarded, 238. Wherein the perfection of it confifls. 243.

Poetry, Epick, what it is, ii. 154. Critical remarks on, vii. 110.
Poetry, Lyrick, its origin and manner, vii. 19.

Policy, too frequently supported by the arts of intrigue and fraud, vi. 50.

Politeness, rules for eftimating its advantages, vi. 174. Its amiable

influence on the manners, 174.

Politian, his poetical compofitions cenfured for his vanity and self

efteem, vi. 358.

Polyphylus, his character, v. 124.

Pomfret,

Pomfret, John, his life, ii. 277. Son of the Rev. Mr. Pomfret, Rector
of Luton, 277. Educated at Cambridge, 277. Rector of Malden,
Bedfordshire, 277. Obstructed in inftitution to a valuable living,
from a paffage in his Choice, 277. Dies of the fmall-pox, in 1703,
aged 36, 278. Character of his poems, 278.

Pompeius, epigrammata, xi. 421.

Pontanus, the inftructive infcription on his tomb, v. 187.

Pope, Alexander, his account of N. Rowe, iii. 38. With Arbuthnot
fuppofed to have aflifted Gay in writing Three Hours after Mar-
riage, 206. His account of the origin and fuccefs of the Beggar's
Opera, 209. A converfation with Addifon on Tickell's tranflation
of Homer, 233. Fenton and Broome affift him in the translation
of the Odyffey, 415. His life, iv. 1. Born in London,
May 22, 1688, 1. His father grew rich by the trade of a linen-
draper, 1. Both his parents papifts, 1. Of a tender and delicate
conflitution, and of a gentle and fweet difpolition, 2. From his
pleafing voice called the little Nightingale, 2. Received his fir
education under a Romish priest in Hampshire, from whence he was
removed first to Twiford, near Winchester, and again to a school
near Hyde-Park-Corner, 2. Is faid to have lifped in numbers, 3.
His father left off bufinefs with 20,000l. but living on the prin-
cipal, greatly reduced it before his death, 3. At twelve years of
age, forms a plan for his own education, 4. His primary and prin-
cipal purpofe was to be a poet, 4. His first performance, the Ode
to Solitude, at twelve years of age, 5. Made a verfion of the firft
book of the Thebais, at fourteen, 5. At fifteen years of age studies
French and Italian, 6. Deftroyed many of his puerile productions, 6.
At fixteen introduced to Sir W. Trumbal, which ended in friend-
fhip, 7. His lite, as an author, to be computed from this time,
when he wrote his Paftorals, 7. Verles written by Wycherly in his
praise, 7. His Letters to Mr. Cromwell, published in a volume of
Mifcellanies, by Curll, 8, Early encouraged. by Mr. Walth, 8.
Frequents the company of wits, at Will's Coffee-house, 9. His
Paflorals firft published in Toufon's Mifcellany, in 1709, 10. His
Effay on Criticifm written 1709, and feverely attacked by Dennis,
His Effay tranflated into French, by Hamilton, Roberham,
and Refnel, and commented on. by Warburton, 13. His Meffiah
firft published in the Spectator, 14. His verfion on the unfortunate
Lady badly employed, 14. Story on which the Rape of the Lock
was founded, 16. The great merit of that poem, 17. That poem
attacked by Dennis, as alto the Temple of Fame, 18. Writes the
Epiftle from Eloifa to Abelard, 18. Windfor Foreft, 1713, 19.
Writes a narrative of the frenzy of John Dennis, 19. Account of
the ironical comparifon between the Paftorals of Philips and Pope,
published in the Guardian,, 20. Studies the art of painting, under
Jervas, 20. Suppofed to have painted a picture of Betterton, 20.
Propoles a tranflation of the Iliad, by fubfcription, in fix quarto ve
lumes, at fix guineas, 21. Sells the copy to B. Lintot, 22. Is
greatly terrified at the undertaking, 24. Is objected to by fome for
being too much a Tory, and by others for want of a fufficient know-
ledge of the Greek language, 24. Greatly affifted by former.
tranflators,

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