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 Passions, persons under the predominant influence of them exceedingly offensive to others, ii. 50. natural and adscititious, strong motives of action, 236, 237. excited by sympathy, 332.

Pastorals, generally the first productions of a poet, viii. 325.

Pastoral poetry, the progress of, viii. 390.

Pastoral life, a glimpse of the state of happiness in, i. 242.

Pastor Fido, specimen of Waller's translation of, vii. 216.

Patience, the usefulness of it in alleviating the miseries of human life, ii. 157. motives to the exercise of patience and submission under the severest afflictions, 160.

Patriot, addressed to the electors of Great Britain 1774, vi. 214.

Patriotism, no man can be born a lover of his country, viii. 293.

Patriots, their conduct considered and reprobated, vi. 215.

Patrons, their avarice of praise and flattery, ii. 497. often corrupted by avarice, and deluded by credulity, iii. 256.

Patronage, lay, case of, v. 476.

Paul the fifth, pope, account of the quarrel between him and the Venetians, vi. 266.

Paul, father. See Sarpi.

Pauses, their influence on the harmony of poetical measures, ii. 422.

Payne's tables of interest, preface to, v. 448.

Peat, account of the nature of that fuel, ix. 99.

Pedantry, the persons to whom the censures of it may be justly applied, iii. 314. the fear of it often produces it, 116.

Peevishness, a species of depravity, disgusting and offensive, ii. 348. sometimes the effect of distemper or affliction, ibid. 349. exemplified in the character of Tetrica, 350, 351. persons of this temper the sources of peculiar affliction to their dependants, iii. 31. a due attention to the dignity of human nature a proper preservative and remedy against this vice of narrow minds, 33.

Peiresc, the fate of his manuscripts, iv. 341.

Pensive man, characterized, vii. 121.

Pepys islands. See Falkland islands.

Perdita, her story, iv. 273.

Perfection in composition, the effect of attention and diligence, iii. 296. the methods by which the ancients attained to an eminence therein, 297.

Periander, his opinion of the importance of restraining anger, ii. 50.

Periodical essays, the difficulties of carrying them on, iv. 151. the advantages of writing in, 156. new ones under the same disadvantages as new plays, 157.

Perseverance, its resistless force and excellence, ii. 210. in intellectual pursuits necessary to eminence in learning and judgment, iii. 149.

Persians, their contempt for men who violated the laws of secrecy, ii. 61.

Persian tales, translated by Ambrose Philips, viii. 387.

Persius, his opinion of learning, iv. 69.

Pertinax, his skill in disputation, ii. 449.

Petitions, their progress, vi. 172. by whom generally supported, 173.

Petrarch, his fame filled the world with amorous ditties, vii. 4.

Philips, Ambrose, his life, viii. 389. educated at St. John's College, Cambridge, ibid. published his pastorals before 1708, ibid. a zealous wig, ibid. translates the Persian Tales for Tonson, ibid. writes the Distressed Mother, and translates Racine's Andromaque, ibid. the epilogue to Andromaque written by Budgel, ibid. the malevolence between him and Pope, 392. commissioner of the lottery, 1717, and made justice of the peace, 393. writes the Briton, a tragedy, 1721, and also Humphrey duke of Gloucester, ibid. undertakes a periodical publication, called the Free Thinker, ibid. appointed secretary to Boulter, primate of Ireland, 394. chosen to represent the county of Armagh, ibid. secretary to the lord chancellor, and judge of the prerogative court, ibid. returns to London, 1748, and died 1749, ibid. his character, ibid. his works characterized, ibid.

Philips, Claude, an itinerant musician, lines on, i. 132.

Philips, John, his life, vii. 229. born at Bampton, Oxfordshire, December 30,*