is lips brought honey from the hive;
So to this boy [_Dor'idon_] they came--I know not whether
They brought or from his lips did honey gather.

W. Browne, _Brittania's Pastorals_, ii. (1613).

=Plato and Homer.= Plato greatly admired Homer, but excluded him from his
ideal republic.

Plato, 'tis true, great Homer doth commend,
Yet from his common-weal did him exile.

Lord Brooke, _Inquisition upon Fame, etc._ (1554-1628).

=Plato and Poets.=

Plato, anticipating the Reviewers,
From his "republic," banished without pity
The poets.

Longfellow, _The Poet's Tale_.

=Platonic Puritan= (_The_), John Howe, the puritan divine (1630-1706).

=Plausible= (_Counsellor_) and Serjeant Eitherside, two pleaders in _The
Man of the World_, by C. Macklin (1764).

=Pleasant= (_Mrs._) in _The Parson's Wedding_, by Tom Killigrew (1664).

=Pleasures of Hope=, a poem in two parts by Thomas Campbell (1799). It
opens with a comparison between the beauty of scenery, and the ideal
enchantments of fancy, in which hope is never absent, but can sustain
the seaman on his watch, the soldier on his march, and Byron in his
perilous adventures. The hope of a mother, the hope of a prisoner, the
hope of the wanderer, the grand hope of the patriot, the hope of
regenerating uncivilized nations, extending liberty, and ameliorating
the condition of the poor. Pt. ii. speaks of the hope of love, and the
hope of a future state, concluding with the episode of Conrad and
Ellenore. Conrad was a felon, transported to New South Wales, but,
though "a martyr to his crimes, was true to his daughter." Soon, he
says, he shall return to the dust from which he was taken;

But not, my child, with life's precarious fire,
The immortal ties of Nature shall expire;
These shall resist the triumph of decay,
When time is o'er, and worlds have passed away.
Cold in the dust this perished heart may lie,
But that which warmed it once shall never die--
That spark, unburied in its mortal frame,
With living light, eternal, and the same,
Shall beam on Joy's interminable years,
Unveiled by darkness, unassuaged by tears.

Pt. ii.

=Pleasures of Imagination=, a poem in three books, by Akenside (1744). All
the pleasures of imagination arise from the perception of greatness,
wonderfulness, or beauty. The beauty of greatness--witness the pleasures
of mountain scenery, of astrono