e Imagination_. See AKENSIDE, MARK.
_Pledging oneself_, iii. 196.
PLINY, v. 220.
PLOTT, Robert, _History of Staffordshire_, iii. 187.
PLOWDEN, iv. 310.
_Plum_, defined, iii. 292, n. 2.
PLUNKET, W. C. (afterwards Lord), ii. 366, n. 2.
PLUTARCH, _Alcibiades_ quoted, iii. 267, n. 4;
apophthegms and _memorabilia_, v. 414;
biography, i. 31;
Euphranor and Parrhasius, iv. 104, n. 2;
Monboddo follows him in the approval of slavery, v. 77, n. 2;
_Solon_ quoted, iii. 255.
PLYMOUTH, French ships of war in sight, iii. 326, n. 5;
Johnson visits it, i. 377;
hates a 'docker,' i. 379;
mentioned, iv. 77.
PLYMPTON, iv. 432.
POCOCK, Dr. Edward, the Orientalist, iii. 269, n. 3; iv. 28.
POCOCK, Mr., catalogue of sale of autographs, ii. 297, n. 2.
POCOCKE, Richard, _Travels_, ii. 346.
POEMS, preserved by tradition, ii. 347;
temporary ones, iii. 318.
POET-LAUREATES, i. 185, n. 1.
_Poetical Calendar_, i. 382.
_Poetical Review of the Literary and Moral Character of Dr. Johnson_.
See COURTENAY, John.
POETRY, devotional, iii. 358, n. 3; iv. 39;
mediocrity in it, ii. 351;
modern imitators of the early poets, ii. 136, 212; iii. 158-160;
translated, cannot be, iii. 36, 257;
what is poetry? iii. 38.
POETS, collection of all the English poets proposed, iii. 158;
English divided into four classes, i. 448, n. 2;
fundamental principles, knowledge of, iii. 347;
preserve languages, iii. 36;
rarity, their, v. 86.
_Poets, Lives of the_. See _Lives of the Poets_.
_Poets, The_, Apollo Press edition, iii. 118.
POKER CLUB, ii, 376, n. 1, 431, n. 1.
POLAND, hospitality to strangers, iv. 18;
Johnson wishes to visit it, iii. 456.
_Polemo-middinia_, iii. 284.
_Polite Philosopher, The_, iii. 22.
POLITENESS, 'fictitious benevolence,' v. 82;
its universal axiom, v. 82, n. 2.
_Politian_, i. 90; iv. 371, n. 2.
_Political Conferences_, iii. 309.
POLITICAL IMPROVEMENT, schemes of, ii. 102.
_Political Survey of Great Britain_, ii. 447.
_Political Tracts by the Author of the Rambler_, ii. 315;
copy in Pembroke College, ib., n. 2;
attacked, ii. 315-317;
preface to it suggested, ii. 441.
POLITICS, modern, devoid of all principle, ii. 369;
in the seventeenth century, ii. 369.
'POLL,' Miss Carmichael, iii. 368.
_Polluted_, iv. 402, n. 2.
POLYBIUS, ii. 35.
POLYGAMY, v. 209, 217.
POLYPHEME, i. 278.
POLYPHEMUS, v. 82, n. 4.
POMFRET, John, Johnson adds him to the _Lives_, iii. 370;
his _Choice_, ib., n.