poem, 280; a small alteration in it pro-
posed, 281; judicious division of the
poem into twelve books, 281, 282; mo-
ral to be deduced from it, 282; time of
the action, from the fourth book to the
end, ib.; replete with scenes most pro-
per to strike the imagination, 418; Ton-
son's profits from, v. 695.
Paradoxes, the essentials of a Tory's creed,
iv. 452; a most absurd one in politics,
v. 30.
Paragrams, several species of puns so
called, ii. 354.
Parallel passages frequent in Homer and
Milton, iii. 262.
Parallels, of Homer, Virgil, and Ovid, iii.
416; fashionable in Mr. Addison's time,
ib. note.
Paranomasia, a species of pun, ii. 355.
Pardon, promised by the Pretender to
those who will rebel for him, iv. 434;
general pardon of the rebels, its expe-
diency discussed, v. 2.
Pardons, why necessary in a government,
Parentage, change of, in the allegory of
justice, ii. 33.
Parental love in animals, exemplified by
a barbarous experiment, ii. 458, 459;
ceases, when no longer necessary for the
preservation of the species, 459.
Parents, their taking a liking to a particu-
lar profession often occasions their sons
to miscarry, ii. 274; their hardness of
heart towards their children inexcusa-
ble, iii. 42.
Paris, curiosities there, described, iv. 182;
Addison at, v. 322-324.
Parish-politics, discussed in the church-
yard, ii. 446.
Parker, Charles, an ecclesiastic, his monu-
ment to the Dukes of Suffolk and Lor-
rain at Pavia, i. 365; inscription on his
own monument, 366.
Parker, Lord Chancellor, preamble, v. 604;
letter to, ib. note.
Parker, Geo., son of the Lord Chancellor,
and afterwards Earl of Macclesfield,
v. 645, and note.
Parliament, the Pretender's remark on,
iv. 431; a Scotch one to be called by
him, 434; Irish Houses of, grant for
clerks and officers, v. 501; Addison's
arguments on the Triennial elections
of, 614; silent members of, in 1715-16,
742.
Parliamentary privilege, Steele's plea of,
v. 713.
Parma, its famous theatre and gallery de-
scribed, i. 503; the extent of its domi-
nions and condition of its inhabitants,
504.
Parnassus, an artificial floating mountain.
so called, iv. 222; stations of the poets
on it, ib.
Parody on Cato's Soliloquy, v. 720.
Parr's, Dr., praise of Addison's Latin Dis-
sertation on the Roman Poets, v. 587,
note.
Parrot, Michael, admonished respecting
his advertisements, ii. 168.
Parsimony, a particular favourite of Ava-
rice, ii. 90.
Parsley, emblematical of Achaia, i. 329;
a garland of it, the reward of the victor
at the Nemæan games, ib.
Parson Patch, iv. 224.
Parthenope, the ancient name of Naples,
its origin, i. 430.
Parthia, described on a medal and by the
poets, i. 333.
Parthians, a medal on the victory of Lu-
cius Verus over them, i. 311.
Partialities in the national judicature,
glanced at, iv. 170.
Participle, its use as a substantive, agree
able to the English idiom, ii. 275, note,
how to be used instead of a substantive,
iii. 170, note; two near together have
an ill effect, 204, note; misused as a
substantive, iv. 311, note.
Parties, in a nation, see things in differ-
ent lights, iv. 463; whence originating,
490; may bring destruction on our
country, v. 24; their animosities dis-
turb public entertainments, 25.
Partridge, John, the astronomer, adver-
tisement respecting him, ii. 158; Swift's
jokes upon, in the name of Bickerstaffe,
v. 686.
Party-contests once managed with good-
breeding, iv. 482.
Party-fictions of the Tories exposed, iv.
425, 426.
Party-lying exposed, iv. 25.
Party-patches, account of, ii. 389.
Party-spirit, its evil tendency, ii. 476;
prejudicial to the judgment, ib.; occa-
sionally prevails in all governments,
477; association proposed, to extinguish
it, 478; more prevalent in the country
than in town, 480; injurious to the
cause of virtue, iii. 138.
Party-violence, disclaimed by the Specta-
tor, ii. 230, 231; his endeavours to mi-
.tigate it, 267.
Party-writers, how they recommend their
productions, iv. 106.
Paschal, his observation on Cromwell's
death, iv. 257.
Pasquin, the statue, dressed in a dirty
shirt, in ridicule of Sextus Quintus, ii.
277.
Passing-bells, who are such in conversa-
tion, ii. 118.
Passionate men unfit for public business,
iii. 487.
Passions, exhibit themselves in the coun-
tenance, ii. 398; according to Plato,
survive the body, 405; their various
operations, as more or less swayed by
reason, iii. 96; instanced in the story
of two negroes, 96, 97; the use of them,
156; descriptions most pleasing which
move them, 419; those of hope and fear,
492; affect us more when asleep than
when awake, iv. 2.
Passions of the Fan, a treatise, for the use
of the author's scholars, ii. 430.
Passive obedience and non-resistance,
state of the controversy respecting, iv.
390; the doctrine of Turks and Indians,
391; its assertors have always been the
favourites of weak kings, 392; tends to
make a good king a very bad one, 393;
ruined James II., 394; of all kinds,
disallowed, except from a lover to his
mistress, iv. 426; misrepresented to the
people, 435; its real meaning, ib.
Pastoral hymn from the 23rd Psalm, iii. 446.
Pastorals of Pope and Philips, v. 696.
Patches, worn by the ladies as party-sig-
nals, ii. 389.
Patent fee of £100 per annum, granted to
Addison, v. 640.
Pathetic, not essential to the sublime, iii.
243.
Patience, her office in the Vision of the
Miseries, iv. 94; a commander in the
war of the sexes, 274.
Patin, Mons., his abhorrence of the Eng-
lish, iv. 506.
Patrician, The, No. I., v. 249; No. II.,
280; No. III., 283.
Patriot, how a true one may console him-
self under obloquy or falsehood, iv.
641.
Patriotism, recommended as a moral vir-
tue, iv. 411; a stimulus to great ac-
tions, 413.
Patriots of a certain kind, more numerous
in England than in any other country,
iv. 27.
Patronage of a prince necessary to learn-
ing, v. 23.
Paul, Mrs., married to Brigadier Mere-
dith, v. 357.
Paul, St., describes our absence from,
and presence with, the Lord, iv. 35; his
account of being caught up into the
third heaven, 131; his affection for his
countrymen, 414; he and Barnabas
persecuted by women, v. 21.
Paul the hermit, v. 123.
Paul Veronese, his painting of the mar-
tyrdom of St. George, i. 378; of the mar-
tyrdom of St. Justina, 384.
Paul's, St., the fox-hunter's visit there,
v. 71.
Pausanias, his account of Trophonius's
cave, iv. 152.
Pause, in music, its fine effect, ii. 97.
Pausilypo, the grotto of, described, i. 431;
the beautiful prospect of its mount,
449.
Pavia, once a metropolis, now a poor town,
i. 365; monuments at the Ticinum of
the ancients, i. 366.
Pax Gulielmi auspiciis Europæ reddita,
Poema, i. 233.
Payment of Addison's salaries, official
entries of, v. 643.
Peace, described on a medal, i. 275; the
olive-branch an appropriate token, 276;
figure of, on a medal of Vespasian, 313;
general, a caution to poets on its cele-
bration, iv. 46; a couple of letters, the
fruits of it, 181, 183; none can be made
without an entire disunion of the French
and Spanish monarchies, 340, 345, 347;
a time of, is always a time of prodigies,
495; furnishes few materials for his-
tory, 498.
Pedantry, learning without common sense,
ii. 134; in learning, like hypocrisy in
religion, 149.
Pedants, an insupportable kind of them
noticed, ii. 134; described by Boileau,
135; their combination to extol one
another's labours, 149; their various
classes, 432; who so to be reputed, ib.;
the book-pedant the most insupport-
able, 433; apt to extol one another, ib.;
how they often make buffoons of them-
selves, v. 219.
Pedro II., Don, king of Portugal, his
death, v. 355.
Peer, an English one, his pleasant story
of a French duellist, ii. 424.
Peerage Bill, proposed by Lord Sunder-
land, v. 236; the subject of a controversy
between Addison and Steele in the Ple-
beian and Old Whig, ib.; opposed by
Sir R. Walpole, ib.; pamphlets occa-
sioned by, 248, 306.
Peers, on increasing the number of, v.
262; on turning the sixteen Scottish
elective ones into twenty-five hereditary
ones, 301.
Pegasus, how represented on the floating
Parnassus, iv. 222.
Pelion, Homer's epithet on, iii. 239.
Pelta, the buckler of the Amazons, i.
334.
Pembroke, Countess dowager of, epitaph
on her, iii. 328.
Penance of Mary Magdalene, tradition
respecting, i. 359.
Pendentisque Dei, in Juvenal, explained,
i. 463.
Penitents, female, forbidden to appear at
confession without tuckers, iv 225.
Pension, retiring, v. 641. See Salaries.
Pension List, Tom Onslow's motion for
considering the, v. 646.
Pentheus, story of, i. 130; his death, 135.
Peplus, part of the Roman dress, i. 261.
Pepper, a production of Arabia, mention-
ed by Persius, i. 336.
Perfection, distinguished into essential
and comparative, ii. 381; the soul's ad-
vancement to, a proof of its immortality,
444, and note; spiritual, many kinds of it
besides those of the human soul, iv. 53.
Pericardium of a coquette's heart, mark-
ed with millions of scars, iii. 293; some
account of the lady, 295; the heart of a
salamandrine quality, ib.
Pericles, his address to the females in a
funeral oration, ii. 392.
Periodical writers, a most offensive spe-
cies of scribblers, iv. 133.
Peripatetic Philosophy, v. 608, 609, 611.
Peripatetics, an obvious difference be-
tween them and the Christians in the
propagation of their tenets, v. 133, note.
Periwig, of King William's reign, still in
fashion in the country, ii. 489; turned
grey by the fear of the wearer, iv. 66.
Perjury, different degree of guilt in, iv.
417; always reckoned among the great-
est crimes, ib.; punished by the Scy-
thians and Egyptians with death, 418;
in oaths of allegiance, an aggravated
crime, 419; every approach towards it
to be avoided, 420; the guilt of it how
incurred, ib.; the gate of, in the High-
lander's vision, 496.
Perrault, ridicules the homely sentiments
of Homer, iii. 188; his ill-judged sneer
at Homer's similitudes, 210.
Perron, says Gretzer, has a deal of wit for
a German, iv. 507.
Perry, Micajah, Lord Mayor of London,
v. 692.
Persecution, religious, personified, ii.
209; in religious matters, immoral, iii.
475.
Persia, the Queen of, her pin-money, iii.
309; account of a fair there, for the sale
of young unmarried women, iv. 28; the
daughters of Eve reckoned there as
goods and chattels, 408.
Persian emperor, his pompous titles, ii.
Persian ambassador, at Paris, his daily
homage to his native soil, iv. 412.
Persian history, a tale from, on detrac-
tion, iv. 463.
Persians, ancient, their opinions on par-
ricide, iii. 60.
Persians, modern, our silk-weavers, ii. 372;
their custom of royal sepulture, iv, 327.
Persius, his description of a wreck, i. 295;
a passage from, in ridicule of the cere-
mony of making a freeman, 292; con-
sidered a better poet than Lucan, 336;
his account of a contest between Luxury
and Avarice, ii. 332; his second satire
occasioned by Plato's Dialogue on
Prayer, iii. 81.
Persons, imaginary, not proper for an
heroic poem, iii. 268.
Perspicuity, a great requisite in epic po-
etry, iii. 190; of a sentence, how hurt
by elliptical forms, iv. 58, note, 134, note,
264, note.
Pertinax, his bust at Florence, i. 496;
two medals of his, 504.
Pesaro, its marble fountain, i. 406.
Pescennius Niger, a scarce medallion of
him at Parma, i. 504.
Pestilence, awfully personified in Scrip-
ture, iii. 270.
Peterborough, Lord, to be superseded by
Lord Galway, v. 355; mentioned, 446;
his imprudent conversation against the
Emperor, 447; arrested at Bologna, 447,
493; letter to, 446.
Peterborough, Lady, invited to dine with
Duchess of Marlborough, v. 365.
Peter's, St., church at Rome described;
the reason of its double dome; its beau-
tiful architecture, i. 417.
Petition of Simon Trippit, ii. 44; to po-
verty, 92.
Petits esprits, a class of readers of poetry,
ii. 361.
Petre, Lord, family of, v. 697.
Petronius Arbiter, St. Evremond's judg-
ment of, v. 737; Addison's account of,
738; translation of, ib.
Petticoat, its cause tried, ii. 64; petitions
in its favour answered, 66; hoop, com-
plaint against it, 482; the women's de-
fence of them, ib.; several conjectures
upon it, 482, 483; compared to an Egyp-
tian temple, 484.
Petticoat-politicians, a seminary of them
to be erected in France, iii. 314.
Petticoats, growing shorter every day, iv.
206; Tom Plain's letter on, 220; notice
to the Pope respecting them, 271.
Petty, Sir William, his calculations re-
specting petticoats, ii. 65; his computa-
tion of the number of lovers in Great
Britain, iv. 407.
Phædria, his request to his mistress on
leaving her for three days, iii. 22.
Phædrus, his fable of the Fox and the
Mask, i. 467.
Phaëthusa, sister of Phaeton, transformed
into a tree, i. 97.
Phaeton, story of, from Ovid's Metamor-
phoses, i. 87; asks to guide his father's
chariot for a day, 88; sets fire to the
world, 93; struck by thunder, falls into
the Po, 96; notes on the story, 139-
145; his sisters, the poets blamed for
not transforming them into larch-trees
instead of poplars, 505.
Phalaris, his consolation to one who had
lost a good son, iii. 339.
Phaon, the inconstant lover of Sappho, iii.
105, 106.
Pharos of Ravenna, its remains, i. 399;
of Caprea, noticed by Statius, 445.
Pharsalia, battle of, a digression in Virgil
relating to, i. 157; of Lucan, a transla-
tion of that poem desirable, as a satire
on the French form of government, v.
48.
Phenomena of nature, imitated by the art
of man, iv. 187.
Phidias, his proposal to cut Mount Athos
into a statue of Alexander, iii. 408; his
statue of Jupiter copied from a descrip-
tion in the first Iliad, v. 218.
Philadelphians, a religious sect, ii. 209.
Philander, a character in the Dialogues on
Medals. i. 255.
Philip of Macedon, in his contest with the
Athenians, demanded their orators, iv.
491.
Philip II., golden medal of his, weighing
twenty-two pounds, i. 340; medal of,
on the resignation of Charles V., 347;
his treatment of the Catalans, v. 12, 13.
Philippics of Cicero, how applied to two
scenes in Cato, i. 187, note.
Philips, Mr. Ambrose, his verses to the
author of Cato, i. 170; his translation
of Sappho's hymn to Venus, iii. 107; his
character as a poet and as a man, 106,
note; his imitation of another fragment
from Sappho, 116, 117; his Pastorals,
to what class of writers recommended,
iv. 45; his Epilogue to the Distressed
Mother, supposed to be written by Ad-
dison, v. 228; his pecuniary difficulties,
375, 376; his Pastorals, 380; his wish
to be appointed to Muscovy or Geneva,
384; the difference between him and
Pope, 415, 417; recommended by Addi-
son to the Earl of Halifax for office,
425; his political appointments, 428;
his adaptation of the Distressed Mother,
429; Budgell's Epilogue to it, 679;
his verses nicknamed Namby Pamby,
696; Pope's ironical review of his
Pastorals, 696; letters to, 370, 371?
375, 380, 383, 384, 399, 428.
Philips, John, his Splendid Shilling, how
occasioned, ii. 188.
Philogamus. his letter to the Spectator in
praise of marriage, iv. 19.
Philomedes advises the Spectator to raise
the price of his paper to sixpence, iv. 5.
Philomot, feuille morte, iii. 174.
Philosopher, an ancient one, his reply
concerning what he carried under his
cloak, iii. 104; an old one, his remark
on his passionate wife, iv. 119; repartee
of one to a cynic, 174.
Philosopher's stone, Mr. Ironside once in
search of it, iv. 322.
Philosophers, why longer lived than other
men, iii. 66.
Philosophy, a thorough insight into it
makes a good believer, ii. 225; the use
of it, 245, 246; said to be brought down
from heaven by Socrates, 253; natural,
its uses, iii. 372; a source of pleasure
to the imagination, 425; oddly recom-
mended to the fair sex, iv. 284; the
Newtonian, v. 607; New, Addison's
Latin Oration in defence of the, 607.
Philo-Spec, his letter, suggesting an elec-
tion of new members to the Spectator's
Club, iv. 69.
Phlegon the Trallian, attests the fulfil-
ment of our Saviour's prophecies, v.
109; and the darkness and earthquake
at his death, ib.
Phoebus, description of his throne, i. 87;
remonstrates against his son's wish to
drive his chariot, 89; in petticoats, a
figure of Ned Softly's, ii. 147.
Phoenix, a medallic emblem of eternity, i.
283; described by Claudian, ib.; by
Ovid, 284; her radiated head, 285; tra-
dition respecting, 287.
Phoenix, the tutor of Achilles, his mode of
remonstrating with his pupil, iii. 366.
Physic, professed by Mr. Bickerstaffe, ii.
178; its professors, a formidable body
of men, compared to the British army
in Cæsar's time, 273; the science flourish-
ing in the North, ib.; cruel experiments
in, 273, 274; the substitute of exercise
and temperance, iii. 64.
Physician of St. Marino, the fourth man
in the state, i. 405.
Physicians convert one disorder into an-
other, ii. 279.
Physiognomy of men of business noted,
ii. 9; an art of which all men are in
some degree masters, 398; resemblance
of human faces with those of various
animals, 399.
Pickled herrings, drolls so called in Hol-
land, ii. 326.
Picts, their painted bodies proposed for
the imitation of the ladies, iv. 270.
Pictures a source of entertainment in bad
weather, ii. 392.
Pied piper, of Germany, charmed all the
mice from a great town, ii. 243.
Piercy, Earl, accepts the challenge of
Douglas at Chevy Chase, ii. 377; his
magnanimity in death, 378.
Pierre, in Venice Preserved, his behvaiour
when brought to execution, ii. 98.
Pietists, a new sect sprung up in Switzer-
land, i. 531; their immoralities, 532.
Piety, on ancient medals represented as a
vestal, i. 282; holds in her hand the
acerra, ib.; an antidote to superstition,
ii. 246.
Pig whipped to death, a fashionable dish,
ii. 108.
Pilgrimage, a term applied to human life,
in Scripture, iii. 100.
Pillar on a medal of Vespasian, its use, i.
314.
Pillars, ancient, at Rome, in various kinds
of marble, i. 476; their proportions not
exact, 477; those of Trajan and An-
tonine the noblest, 478; two antique
ones at Florence, wrought with figures
of Roman arms, 498.
Pills to purge Melancholy, D'Urfey's mis-
cellanies so called, iv. 161.
Pilot, his office and station in the ships of
the ancients, i. 294.
Pindar, his vast conceptions and noble sal-
lies of imagination, ii. 505; his modern
imitators compared with him, 506.
Pindar and Mr. D'Urfey, two lyric poets
who lived to a great age, iv. 160.
Pindaric manner in gardening, iii. 501.
Pindaric writers, advice to them, ii. 346.
Pindarics, monstrous compositions so de-
nominated, ii. 505.
Pindust, Mrs. Rebecca, her case, ii. 52.
Pinkethman, his sale of animals at the
theatre, ii. 1; to represent King Porus
on an elephant, 292.
Pin-money, a curious case respecting,
iii. 306, 307; the term proposed to be
changed into needle-money, 308; lands
called the Queen of Persia's pin-money,
309.
Pinnirapus, gladiator, how represented
in combat, i. 468.
Pinto, Ferdinand Mendez, a traveller,
second to Sir John Mandeville, ii. 194.
Pippin Woman, story of the, v. 739.
Pirates, literary, exposed, ii. 36.
Pisa, almost unpeopled by Leghorn, i. 491.
Pisatello, the modern name of the Ru-
bicon, i. 401.
Pisauro, doge of Venice, his epitaph, i.
388.
Pismires, endowed with human passions,
an imaginary scene, iv. 277.
Pittacus, his moderation, iv. 118.
Pity, in tragedy, moved by a handkerchief,
ii. 315; its influence on mankind, iii.
373, 374; that and terror the leading
passions in poetry, 420.
Pius II. assisted by the inhabitants of St.
Marino against a lord of Rimini, i. 404.
Place and precedency, more contested by
those of inferior rank than ladies of
quality, ii. 455.
Place in the state, why to be sought after,
iii. 486; what persons unfit for, 487; a
cure for malcontents, iv. 463; more per-
sons who solicit and are fit for places in
this country than in any other, v. 75.
Plagiarism, charged on the Spectator, and
confuted by him, iv. 68; of wit, how
corrected, 101.
Plague, Virgil's attempt to excel Lucre-
tius in describing, i. 160.
Plain, Tom, his letter on petticoats, iv. 220.
Plantations give a pleasure of a more
lasting date than other works, iv. 135.
Plantations, revenue of the, v. 465; com-
missions for trying pirates in, 509.
Planting, of men, a phrase of Diogenes, iii.
75; a delightful and beneficial amuse-
ment, iv. 135; considered as a virtuous
employment, ib.; and a duty, 136; re-
commended by phlosophers and poets
of antiquity, 137.
Plate, silver, grant of, v. 642.
Plato, his station in the Temple of Fame,
ii. 14; his allegory of the pains and
pleasures of love, 23; his notion re-
specting the soul, 405; belonging to the
second class of great geniuses, 506; his
account of the last moments of Socrates,
iii. 46; abstract of his Dialogue on
Prayer, 81; some beautiful transmigra-
tions in his vision of Erus, 90; his justi-
fication of Providence in the adversity
of good men, 128, 129; his account of
the Queen of Persia's pin-money, 309;
his style worthy of the gods, 383; his
sublime description of the Supreme Be-
ing, iv. 25; says that nothing is so delight-
ful as hearing or speaking the truth, 85;
his sensible sayings on calumny, 255;
his advice to an unpolished writer, 312.
Platonic notion of the Deity agrees with
revelation, iv. 146.
Platonic philosophy, the ground-work of
an allegory of Virgil, ii. 122.
Platonic year noticed, ii. 124.
Platonist, forewoman of the female jury in
the Court of Honour, ii. 191.
Platonists, their opinion on souls, ii. 123.
Plautus, his style and subjects, v. 598.
Play on words, the excuse of avoiding, il-
lustrates a noble trait in Addison's
character, i. 154, note.
Play-debts, must be paid in specie or by
an equivalent, iv. 233; falsely called
debts of honour, 311.
Players, degrees of dignity among them,
iv. 119.
Play-house, a world within itself, iv. 148;
poem of the, v. 529.
Plays, of all sorts, find advocates for ad-
mission into the ladies' library, ii. 410.
Pleasantness of temper, a requisite in
friendship, ii. 369.
Pleasure, described as a Syren, ii. 11; her
courtship of Hercules, an allegory, 27;
her marriage with Pain, an allegory,
iii. 47, &c.
Pleasures of Imagination, Mr. Addison's
Essay on, the most masterly of his criti-
cal works, iii. 393, note.
Plebeian, The, v. 236.
Plenty, described on a medal, i. 276, 299,
301; the father of Love, ii. 23; a god-
dess attendant on Liberty, 140.
Pliny, his choice of a consort for his
friend's daughter, ii. 6; the Younger, his
account of the Christians in his day, v.
109.
Ploce, a species of pun, ii. 355.
Plot, Dr., his account of a clock-striking
idiot, iii. 453.
Plotina, her bust at Florence, i. 496.
Plotting Sisters, D'Urfey's comedy, acted
for the author's benefit, iv. 160.
Plumb, Peter, indicted in the Court of
Honour by Thomas Gules, ii. 201
heard by counsel in his defence, 202;
found guilty, ib.; his sentence, 203.
Plurality of worlds, arguments of the au-
thor for the peopling of every planet,
iv 41.
Plutarch, finds the whole circle of arts in
the Iliad, i. 271; his character of Cicero,
ii. 175; a fine remark of his on hatred,
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