t character of the English maiden [_Pamela_] is
so well maintained, ... her sorrows and afflictions are borne with
so much meekness; her little intervals of hope ... break in on her
troubles so much like the specks of blue sky through a cloudy
atmosphere--that the whole recollection is soothing, tranquilizing,
and doubtless edifying.--Sir W. Scott.

_Pamela_ is a work of much humbler pretensions than _Clarissa
Harlowe_.... A simple country girl whom her master attempts to
seduce, and afterwards marries.... The wardrobe of poor Pamela, her
gown of sad-colored stuff, and her round-eared caps; her various
attempts at escape, and the conveyance of her letters; the hateful
character of Mrs. Jewkes, and the fluctuating passions of her
master before the better part of his nature obtains
ascendancy--these are all touched with the hand of a
master.--Chambers, _English Literature_, ii. 161.

=Pamina and Tam'ino=, the two lovers who were guided by "the magic flute"
through all worldly dangers to the knowledge of divine truth (or the
mysteries of Iris).--Mosart,[TN-61] _Die Zauberfl[:o]te_ (1790).

=Pamphlet= (_Mr._), a penny-a-liner. His great wish was "to be taken up
for sedition." He writes on both sides, for as he says, he has "two
hands, _ambo dexter_."

"Time has been," he says, "when I could turn a penny by an
earthquake, or live upon a jail distemper, or dine upon a bloody
murder; but now that's all over--nothing will do now but roasting a
minister, or telling the people they are ruined. The people of
England are never so happy as when you tell them they are
ruined."--Murphy, _The Upholsterer_, ii. 1 (1758).

=Pan=, Nature personified, especially the vital crescent power of nature.

Universal Pan.
Knit with the Graces and the Hours in dance,
Led on the eternal spring.

Milton, _Paradise Lost_, iv. 266, etc. (1665).

_Pan_, in Spenser's ecl. iv., is Henry VIII., and "Syrinx" is Anne
Boleyn. In ecl. v. "Pan" stands for Jesus Christ in one passage, and for
God the Father in another.--Spenser, _Shepheardes Calendar_ (1572).

_Pan_ (_The Great_), Fran[c,]ois M. A. de Voltaire; also called "The
Dictator of Letters" (1694-1778).

=Pancaste= (3 _syl._), or CAMPASPE, one of the concubines of Alexander the
Great. Apell['e]s fell in love with her while he was employed in painting
the k