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 NAMES, NATIVITY, ETC., OF QUOTED AUTHORS Poe, Edgar Allan, poet and prose writer United States, 1809-1849 174 203 374 402 656 740 761 797 Poincare, Raymond, Prime Minister 224 and President of France, Lorraine, 1860-L. Pole, Reginald, cardinal, Archbishop 853 of Canterbury. . . .England, 1500-1558 Polignac, Melchior de, cardinal, statesman, writer. . .France, 1661-1741 15 65 219 237 Pollard, Josephine, poet, 291 United States, 1843-1892 Pollok, Robert, religious poet, Scotland, about 1798-1827 55 258 299 383 485 510 517 538 567 627 693 714 734 782 Polybius, historian Greece, b.c. 204-125 Pomfret, John, poet England, 1667-1703 651 779 Pompadour, Mme. Jean A. P., Mis- 305 tress of Louis XV. . . France, 1721-1764 Pompey, Cneitjs, Roman general, 767 triumvir b.c. 106-48 Pomponius, LiETUS Julius, antiqua- 338 rian, historian Italy, 1425-1497 Poor Richard's Almanac, a colleclection of precepts, published by Benjamin Franklin, in the name of an imaginary author, Richard Saunders (see Franklin). Poor Robin's Almanac. This first 38 appeared in 1663. Discontinued in 1828. England, 1688-1744 Pope, Walter, physician and 581 882 writer England, 1630-1714 Popham, Sir John, Lord Chief Justice, 761 England, 1531(?)-1607 Porson, Richard, Greek scholar, 42 critic England, 1759-1808 Porter, Mrs. David 920 Porter, Henry, dramatist, 638 England, living 1599 Porter, Horace, general, 612 United States, 1837-1920 Porter, William ■ Sydney (O. Henry), journalist, story writer United States, 1862-1910 552 Pohteus, Beilby, bishop and writer of prose and verse. .England, 1731-1808 115 174 450 534 854 Posidippus (Poseidippos), 571 comic poet living B.C. 289 Potter, Henry Codman, Protestant 194 Episcopal bishop, United States, 1835-1908 Poujoulat, Jean-Joseph-Francois, 486 writer France, 1808-1880 Powell, Sir John, Judge.ENGLAND, 1633-1696 Power op Atherstone 560 Praed, Winthrop Mackworth, poet, writer of Vers de SoaUte, England, 1802-1839 23 66 157 217 486 508 631 664 732 778 829 Prayer op Persian Dervish. 598 Prentice, George Denison, poet, humorist, and journalist, United States, 1802-1870 797 854 Prentiss, Elizabeth Payson, author, 719 United States, 1818-1878 Pbeston, Harriet W., writer and 325 translator, United States, about 1843-1911 Preston, Margaret" J., poet, United States, 1825-1897 368 458 463 575 Prestwich, Edmund, poet and clas- _ 893 sical scholar . . .England, living in 1651 Peideaux, Humphrey, clergyman 644 and Oriental scholar, England, 1648-1724 Priestly, Dr. Joseph, philosopher, 198 theologian, and the discoverer of oxygen England, 1733-1804 Procter, Adelaide Anne, poet, England, 1825-1864 450 498 539 582 704 735 747 751 806 Procter, Bryan Waller, "Barry Cornwall," poet and author, England, 1787-1874 215 347 378 439 566 574 598 622 694 764 793 875 888 Procter, Edna Dean, author, 210 United States, 1838-L. Proper New Ballad in Praise op 900 My Lady Marques. (1569) Propertitjs, Sextus, Roman elegiac poet Umbria, about B.C. 50 8 129 143 253 258 309 314 389 476 546 601 Protagoras, Greek sophist, philoso- 491 pher b.c. 490(?)-415(?) "Prout, Father," see Mahony, Francis. Proverbial Sayings Current in 854 Great War Proverbs or Manual of Wisdom. 648 Printed for Tabart & Co., London (1804) Prowse, W. J., poet England, 1836-1870 Prudentius, M. A. C, Spanish Roman, Christian poet, living in 348 411 751 Prud'homme (Sully), poet, 341 France, 1839-1907 Prudhon, Chas. F. J., comedian, 616 France, 1845-L. Pryde and Abuse of Women, (1550) 893 Prynne, William, Puritan controver- 415 sialist, jurist England, 1600-1669 Pseudo-Phocyl, 648 Pseudo-Sallust, name given to the 291 spurious Sallust Publius Mimus 312 Publilius Syrus, see Syrus, Publilius Pucci, Francesco, archdeacon, theo- 233 logical writer Italy, 1540-1583 Pulteney, William, statesman and 410 orator England, 1684-1764 Punch, London 493 498 Purcell, Daniel, punster and wit, 404 England, about 1660-1718 Purchas, Samuel, editor, collector, 140 traveler England, 1577-1626 PUTTENHAM, poet, 659 England, 1520(?)-1601(?) Pychowska, L. D. 353 Pyper, Mary, poet, 232 Scotland, 19th Cent. Pyrrhus, king of Epirus b.c. 318(?)-272 Pythagoras, philosopher and mathematician. .Greece, about b.c. 582-500 154 242 613 627 694 Querlon, Anne Gabriel M. de, jour- 293 nalist, satiric writer, France, 1702-1780
 * Pope, Alexander, poet and critic,
 * Prior, Matthew, poet and diplomatist England, 1664-1721
 * Quarles, Francis, poet. England, 1592-1644