More, Sir Thomas, ii. 223 _note_
---- Henry, the Platonist, his _Conjectura Cabalistica_, i. 262 and
_note_
---- Mr., writing-master, iv. 329 and _note_
Morforio, iii. 87, 91
Morley, Professor Henry, his _Memoirs of Bartholomew Fair_, ii. 313
_note_:
his _Life of Girolamo Cardano_, iv. 103 _note_
---- John, on Guicciardini, iv. 342 _note_
Morning, Swift's lines on, i. 111.
See _Description of the Morning_
---- gowns, iv. 149 and _note_
Morocco, ambassador of, iii. 38 and _note_
Morphew, John, printer of the _Tatler_, referred to, i. 64 and _note_,
106 _note_, 218, 222 _note_, 261, 299 _note_; ii. 129, 167, 207,
222, 248, 360, 365; iii. 57, 71 _note_, 77, 133, 249, 255, 277,
336, 346, 374; iv. 13, 14, 38, 128, 186, 233, 380
Morris' Coffee-house, i. 161
Mortagne, i. 290, 299
Mortar, Hon. Colonel, ii. 88
Mortlake, ii. 320 _note_
Motteux, Peter Anthony, dramatist, ii. 377 _note_ and _seq._:
published _Gentleman's Journal_, ii. 134 and _note_
"Mount of Restitution," the, ii. 343, 353 _seq._
Mountford, the actor, i. 30 _note_
----, Mrs, i. 30 _note_
Mourning, the æsthetic advantages of, iii. 194 _seq._
Moving pictures, iii. 82 and _note_, 83 and _note_, 283
_Mr. Pope's Welcome from Greece_, by Gay, i. 380 _note_
"Mrs.," title used for country gentlewomen, i. 89 _note_
Muffen, Mr., keeper of a china shop, i. 83 _note_
Mulgrave, Earl of, i. 117 _note_
Mum, a bottle of, ii. 261; iii. 23 and _note_
Mundon, Admiral, i. 280 _note_
Muralt, his _Letters describing the Character and Customs of English
and French Nations_, iii. 112 _note_
Musæus, ii. 232; iii. 216
Muscovites, i. 72, 236; ii. 67; iii. 220, 246
---- Czar of, iii. 221; iv. 153 _note_, 186, 227
_Museum Tradescantianum_, a collection of rarities preserved at South
Lambeth, near London, by John Tradescant, i. 282 _note_
_Muses' Mercury_, i. x
"Musical Instruments," by Addison, i. 4:
male characters illustrated by, iii. 206 _seq._, 258:
female characters illustrated by, iii. 228 _seq._, 248
Musket (or Pistol) of Wapping, i. 200, 201 and _note_
Musty, a kind of snuff, i. 229; ii. 214, 352
Myrmidons, the, of Homer, ii. 52, 74, 81, 117
Nab, Ralph, haberdasher, humble petition of, iv. 371
Naboharzon, King of Babylon, iii. 223
Naked Boy, the, iv. 148 _note_
_Naked Truth, The_, by Colonel Crowther (?), sarcasms on, i. 146
_note_ and _seq._, 178 _seq._
Nakedness, an affectation of, iv. 109 _seq._
Namur, i. 52, 174
Nando's Coffee-house, i. 228 _note_; iii. 152, 348
Naples, i. 50, 75, 94, 213; iii. 86; iv. 321
_Narrative of Guiscard's Examination_, by Mrs. Manley, i. 245 _note_
Nassau, Prince of, i. 105, 290; ii. 149
Nations led to revolution by extraordinary genius, not by general bent
of feeling, i. 54
Naturalisation, act of, i. 84 and _note_, 121 _note_, 162
Naunton, Sir Robert, iv. 180
Nayler, James, the Quaker, a place claimed for him in the Chamber of
Fame, ii. 207 and _note_
Nectar and ambrosia, iv. 153 and _note_
Nero, Life of, by Suetonius, i. 257 and _note_:
referred to, ii. 167, 168
Nestor, i. 59, 60:
the talk of, iii. 103
---- (Sir Christopher Wren), ii. 24 and _note_, 25 and _note_
Neuhausel, i. 183, 236
Neverout, Mr., ii. 6 _note_
_New Atalantis_, by Mrs. Manley, whom see
Newcomb, Ellin, iv. 381
Newgate, iii. 306 _note_
---- Market, i. 235 _note_; iv. 304 _note_
---- Street, ii. 97
Newington, ii. 41, 42 _note_
---- Green, ii. 156 _note_
Newman, Richard, indicted for the use of the word "perhaps," iv. 302
Newmarket, ii. 181 _note_
_News from Parnassus_, by Boccalini, iv. 341, 342 _note_
News, foreign and domestic, from St. James's Coffee-house, i. 13:
the news in the _Tatler_ is for most part only of slight interest,
i. 19 _note_:
_Tatler_ will supply such news as has escaped public notice, i. 52:
to be given up in the _Tatler_, i. 182 _note_
"News-writers, the Distress of," by Addison, i. 4, 156 _seq._:
helped by a knowledge of astrology, i. 28:
shifts they are reduced to, i. 347:
excluded from the Chamber of Fame, ii. 187
Newspapers as pernicious to people of England as books of chivalry to
those of Spain, iii. 335 _seq._
Newton, Sir Isaac, his philosophy, i. 350 _note_:
referred to, iv. 121
Nice, Will, a fop, i. 128
Nicholas, Master, barber in _Don Quixote_, i. 282 and _note_
Nichols, his _Select Collection of Poems_, i. 47 _note_, 203 _note_:
quoted, i. 126 _note_, 146 _note_, 201 _note_, 245 _note_, 265
_note_, 283 _note_, 291 _note_, 305 _note_, 310 _note_, 343
_note_, 350 _note_; ii. 3 _note_, 5 _note_, 19 _note_, 25
_note_, 43 _note_, 102 _note_, 187 _note_, 199 _note_, 201
_note_, 223 _note_, 264 _note_, 272 _note_, 317 _note_, 410
_note_; iii. 21 _note_, 26 _note_, 58 _note_, 76 _note_, 84
_note_, 85 _note_, 87 _note_, 100 _note_, 163 _note_, 192
_note_, 278 _note_, 343 _note_, 390 _note_; iv. 123 _note_, 138
_note_, 201 _note_, 210 _note_, 376 _note_
"Nickers," their habits, ii. 204
Nicknack, Jeffry, a letter from, i. 228
Nicolini, Cavalier Grimaldi, his benefit-night delayed at request of
ladies of quality, iii. 150:
referred to, i. 171 _note_; iii. 5 _note_ and _seq._, 6 _note_, 129
"Night-cap wig," i. 216 and _note_
Night-cap presented to I. B., iii. 130, 148, 149
"No," the difficulty of saying, ii. 243
_No Duke_, by Nahum Tate, iii. 409
Noah's Flood, in puppet-show, i. 140 _note_
Noailles, Duke of, i. 95
Nobilis, his unsuccessful attempts to be a rake, i. 224, 225
Noble Street, i. 334
"Nock," iv. 320 and _note_
Nocturnus, the keeper of Messalina, i. 397
Nonsense the prevailing part of eloquence, ii. 77
Norfolk Street, i. 161
Norris, John, the divine, his _Theory and Regulation of Love_, i. 262
and _note_, 263 _note_
---- Admiral Sir John, i. 205 and _note_
North Briton, Mr., or Mr. William Scott, iv. 310, 311
Norton, Richard (? the gentleman of Hampshire), the author of
Pausanias, i. 358 and _note_
Norwich crape, ii. 195 _note_
Noses, a paper on, iv. 320 _seq._
Notch, Sir Jeffrey, a foreman of the Club, iii. 99
Nottingham, Daniel, Earl of, called Don Diego Dismallo, i. 184 and
_note_; iii. 192 _note_
Nova Zembla, iv. 289, 314
Novel, a coxcomb, in the _Plain Dealer_, i. 243 and _note_
"Novelists," iii. 327, 332 _note_
Nowhere, Lord, a coxcomb, i. 310
Noye, William, his strange will, i. 87 and _note_
---- Edward, i. 87 _note_
Numps, i. 82
Oberon, Platonne's footman, i. 263
---- King (_i.e._ Owen M'Swiney), i. 110 and _note_
_Observator, The_, iii. 377 _note_
Oceanus, iii. 176
Ogle, Jack, iii. 100 and _note_
Ogling, the art of, i. 86; iii. 166 _seq._
Oh Nee Zeath Ton No Prow, Iroquois chief of the River Sachen and the
Ganajohhom Sachen, iii. 299 _note_, 301
Old age, the follies of, i. 376; iv. 350 _seq._:
devoted to avarice, iii. 32
_Old Bachelor, The_, by Congreve, i. 81 and _note_; ii. 62 _note_
Old Bailey, The, ii. 4 _note_, 244 _seq._; iii. 42
Old Devil, the, ii. 299
Old Fox Inn, the, iv. 317
Old Man's Coffee-house, iv. 150 _note_
_Old Mode, The, and the New; or, Country Miss with her Furbelow_, by
D'Urfey, iii. 196 _note_
Old Southampton Buildings, iv. 150 _note_
Oldfield, Mrs., contention with Mrs. Bracegirdle, i. 17 _note_:
as Lady Betty Modish, i. 90, 91 _note_; iii. 357 _note_; iv. 94
_note_:
her salary, ii. 164 _note_:
executress to Arthur Maynwaring, i. 7 and 8 _note_:
not as Flavia, iv. 94 _note_
Oldfox, Major, in _The Plain Dealer_, i. 243 and _note_
Oldham, his _Satire addressed to a friend that is about to leave the
University_, iv. 296, 297:
his translation of Horace, iv. 364
Oldmixon, published Maynwaring's _Life and Posthumous Works_ in 1715,
i. 8 _note_:
(? the unborn poet), ii. 97 and _note_
Oldys, i. 346 _note_
"Olive Tree and Still," iv. 149 _note_
Olivenza, i. 253, 261, 332; ii. 19
Oliver (Cromwell), his porter, ii. 14 and _note_; iii. 65
Oliver, William, M.D., F.R.S., his _Dissertation on Bath Waters_, i.
133 _note_
"Ombre," a game of cards, ii. 29 and _note_
Omicron (? John Oldmixon), the unborn poet, ii. 97 _note_, 161
"One Bell" Inn, the, iii. 158
Open-breasted waistcoats, a fashion, ii. 314 _note_; iii. 197
Opera, the, discouraged by supporters of the theatres, i. 40 _seq._:
Addison and Dennis on, i. 40 _note_:
one in which hero sang Italian and the heroine English, i. 171
_note_:
given up to acrobats, ii. 388 _seq._; iii. 5
Orange, Prince of, i. 174; ii. 105, 133; iii. 162 _note_
Oranienburg, i. 72; iv. 57
Oraison, M. d'André, Marquis d', ii. 54
Oratory, the art of, ii. 155: graceful, iii. 373
Orestea, the friend of Piledea, ii. 148
_Origin and Progress of Letters_, by Massey, iii. 133 _note_; iv. 329
_note_
_Original Letters to the "Tatler" and "Spectator,"_ i. 89 _note_, 136
_note_; ii. 314 _note_; iii. 113 _note_, 130 _note_, 264 _note_,
375 _note_; iv. 13 _note_, 366 _note_
Orkney, Lord, i. 290, 291; ii. 109
Orlando the Fair (_i.e._ Beau Feilding), ii. 3 _note_ and _seq._, 4,
13 _seq._
Ormond, James Butler, Duke of, supposed original of Lord Timon, i. 84
_note_:
as Duumvir, ii. 35 _note_ and _seq._:
referred to, iii. 163 _note_, 299 _note_
Orontes, a letter from, iii. 375 _note_
_Orphan, The_, Monimia in, played by Mrs. Barry, i. 16 _note_:
the Page in, played by Mrs. Bracegirdle, i. 17 _note_
Orrery, Roger Boyle, Earl of, i. 145 and _note_
Ortuinus Gratius, a doctor of divinity, iv. 21 _note_
Osborne, Th., Duke of Leeds (? Downes), iii. 407 _note_ and _seq._
---- Miss (? Flavia), afterwards wife of Bishop Atterbury, iv. 94 and
_note_, 222 _note_
Oscitation, very different from laughter, ii. 102
Osmyn, a civil husband, ii. 27 _seq._
Ostend, i. 244; ii. 105
Osyris, correspondent from Scotland, iii. 165
Othello, his handkerchief, i. 345:
referred to, ii. 344 _note_, 375; iii. 281, 380, 383, 384; iv. 42
Otway, his _Venice Preserved_, iii. 105
Oudenarde, i. 19, 34, 378 _note_
Overdo, Mr. Justice, in _Bartholomew Fair_, i. 280 and _note_
---- Mrs. Arabella, her low dresses, iv. 109, 110
Overton, Mr., his _Life in the English Church_, iv. 293 _note_
---- Mr., picture seller, iv. 379
Ovid, _Met._ quoted, i. 359; ii. 388; iii. 238, 375, 367; iv. 147,
210, 219, 224, 290, 291:
_Ep._ quoted, i. 117 and _note_; iv. 206:
_Rem. Am._ quoted, iii. 12, 189; iv. 25, 181:
_Amor. El._, iv. 324:
_Ars Am._, iii. 175:
referred to, i. 77; iii. 19, 310
Oxenstern, Count of, ii. 109
Oxford, helps a man to find his level, i. 249:
superior way of reckoning time at, i. 315, 316:
home of virtue and knowledge, i. 314 _seq._:
almanac of, i. 315 _seq._, 351:
supports Powell or Dr. Blackall, i. 365 and _note_:
_Terræ-Filius; or, The Secret History of_, i. 366 _note_:
Hogarth's "Theatre at," i. 366 _note_:
a letter from, ii. 165:
bad manners at, ii. 165, 166:
an Oxford scholar, ii. 363:
a habit at, iv. 24:
referred to, i. 7 _note_, 210, 281 _note_, 282 _note_; ii. 171
_note_, 187, 269; iii. 357; iv. 130, 204 _note_, 237, 324
Oxford, Earl of (Martio), i. 45, 305 _note_
Packington, Sir John, i. 325 _note_
Pacolet, Mr., I. B.'s "familiar," his history, i. 131 _seq._:
referred to, i. 115, 116, 122, 135, 186, 219, 220, 221, 222, 235,
327, 355, 357, 375, 387; ii. 16, 107, 157, 176, 206, 225 _seq._;
iii. 283
Pætus and Arria, two notable lovers, ii. 167 _seq._
Page, the, I. B.'s nephew, iv. 70 _seq._
Paget, Colonel, iv. 376 _note_
_Painter, Advice to a_, by Waller, i. 34 and _note_
_Painter, Directions to a_, by Denham, i. 34 and _note_
_Painter, Instructions to a_, by Waller, i. 34 and _note_
Palace Yard, iii. 127
Palamede of the Temple, lover of Cælia, iv. 26 _seq._
Palatinates, i. 43, 337; ii. 19, 146 _note_, 410; iii. 57
Palatine, Elector of, i. 183
Palestris, a victim of the spleen, iv. 263
Pall Mall, i. 14, 82, 92; ii. 91 _note_, 111, 210
Pallas, i. 336, 352
Pall-bearers chosen for I. B.'s funeral, i. 66, 67
Palmer, Roger, made Earl of Castlemaine, ii. 7 _note_
Palmes, Major-General, i. 61
Pandarus, a purveyor, i. 374
---- a myrmidon, ii. 52 _seq._
Pantheon, the, "The Temple of the Heathen Gods," i. 42 _note_
Panton, Brigadier, iv. 376 _note_
Paradise, iv. 166, 340
_Paradise Lost_ compared to Dryden's _State of Innocence_, i. 55, 56:
referred to, i. 263 _note_, 330; ii. 7 _note_; iii. 103 and _note_;
iv. 116, 117, 119, 140, 141, 210 _seq._, 340, 341:
quoted, ii. 216, 358, 424, 425; iii. 188, 189
Parents, their foolish preferences, iv. 201 _seq._
Paris, want of bread in, i. 95, 96, 154, 206:
referred to, i. 28, 73, 74, 85, 95, 105, 121, 144, 183, 204, 229,
237, 305; ii. 12 _note_, 54, 90, 158, 275 _note_, 322; iii. 333;
iv. 207
---- Helen's epistle to, i. 117 and _note_
Parisatis, her cure of a coquette, i. 86
Parker, Richard, ii. 410 _note_
Parmenian, ii. 135 _note_
_Parœmiographia Græci_, by Gaisford, i. 360 _note_
Parrot, Michael, his advertisement, iv. 152 and _note_
Parsimony, iii. 52
Parsons, the Jesuit, a model of style, iv. 180
Parthenope in _The Rehearsal_, i. 72 and _note_
Partlett, Mrs., a widow, iv. 332
Partridge, John, his supposed death and defence, i. 21 and _note_, 22
and _note_:
his _Almanac_, i. xi. 21 _note_; ii. 319 _note_ and _seq._:
some account of, ii. 320 _note_:
news from the dead, iii. 23:
the genuine is dead, iv. 113:
_Tit for Tat_ issued under his name, iv. 172 _note_:
referred to, i. 64, 102, 126, 127 _note_, 168 _note_, 298, 361; ii.
54, 72, 127, 200, 323, 339; iii. 59; iv. 153 _note_
Party does not influence I. B. so much as opinion, i. 5:
impartiality shown by his treatment of all parties, _ibid._
Pasquin of Rome, letters to I. B, iii. 83 _seq._, 375 _seq._:
referred to, iii. 82 _note_, 91, 379 _note_, 391 _note_
Passion, its dangers, iii. 303, 305 _seq._
Passive obedience, the doctrine of, i. 359 _note_ and _seq._; ii. 8
_seq._, 17 _seq._
_Pastor Fido_, by Tasso, iii. 236
Pastorals, by Philips and by Pope, i. 112 _note_:
the season and place for writing, iii. 157, 158
Pastorella, her conversion for coquetry, i. 85, 86, 87:
called "Miss," i. 89 _note_:
referred to, i. 117, 196
Patches, concerning, ii. 132
Paté, General, i. 75
Patience, Mrs., i. 89 _note_
Patkul, Jean Reinhold de, of Livonia, ii. 135 and _note_
Patricia (_i.e._ Ireland) i. 45
Patriotism, the decay of, iii. 358 _seq._
Patroclus, iii. 203
Patrons, iv. 17 _seq._
Paulo (_i.e._ Bateman) of the City, his character, i. 211
Paulucci, Cardinal, i. 49
_Pausanias_, by Richard Norton, i. 358 _note_
Peace means death to news-writers, i. 158 _seq._:
the terms of, i. 173
Peachum, Mrs., in _The Beggar's Opera_, i. 234 _note_
Peak, Knight of the, iii. 9 _note_, 10
Pedant, a learned idiot, ii. 65 _seq._; iii. 234, 235, 256, 269
_seq._; iv. 246, 247
Peggy, Mrs. (Dr. Young), iii. 160
Pendergrass, Sir Thomas, ii. 109
Penny Post, some account of, ii. 130 _note_
Pensioner, the Grand, i. 51
Pepin, Betty, a kept mistress, i. 201 and _note_; ii. 19 and _note_
---- King, ii. 300
Pepusch, Dr., married Margareta, iii. 192 _note_
Pepys quoted, i. 219 _note_:
on Lady Castlemaine, iii. 296 _note_
Percival, Miss. _See_ Mrs. Verbruggen, i. 31 _note_
Percy, his _Reliques of Ancient Poetry_, i. 239 _note_
----, his _Anecdotes_ quoted, i. 244 _note_, 310 _note_
Peregrine, Will, ii. 22
Persia, ii. 412 _note_; iii. 196; iv. 78
Pert, Beau, a sharper, ii. 115, 116
Peskad, Madge, a bonnet-maker near Bedford, i. 283
"Pestle and Mortar," the, iv. 170, 381
Peter, in _The Tale of a Tub_, i. 209
Petruchio in _Taming of the Shrew_, iv. 181 _note_ and _seq._
Petticoats, a fashion in, ii. 404:
invented by Mrs. Cross-stitch, ii. 418:
"chairs" must be accommodated to, ii. 418, 419:
attempt to reform, iii. 12 _seq._, 257:
a scoured, iv. 316 and _note_
Petticum, M., iii. 123
Petty, Sir William, iii. 12
Petulant, Betty, i. 141
---- Mrs., i. 141
---- Lady, i. 278
_Phædra and Hippolitus_, by Edmund Smith, i. 158 _note_
Phædrus quoted, iv. 284
Phæton, i. 99
_Phalaris, Epistles of_, the controversy on, i. 66 _note_:
referred to, ii. 232
Phidias, ii. 281
Philander, a brave lover, ii. 306 _seq._
---- a faithful lover, iii. 367 _seq._
---- threatens suicide, iii. 297
---- suitor to Cælia, iv. 35-37
---- (_i.e._ Lord Halifax), i. 45 and _note_:
his skill in address towards women, i. 117 _seq._
Philanders, overstocked with, iii. 382; iv. 44:
referred to, iii. 190; iv. 250, 251
Philanthropes (John Hughes?), a letter from, ii. 125, 126
Philip, King of Spain, i. 246
Philips, Ambrose, a poem by, i. 112 _seq._:
notice of, i. 112 _note_:
his _Pastorals_, i. 112 _note_
---- John, his _Cyder_, iii. 23:
his _Splendid Shilling_, iv. 270 and _note_
Philippus, Alexander's physician, iv. 78 _seq._
Phillis, i. 81
Philolaus, iii. 250 _note_
Philomath, his _Almanac_, iv. 168, 169, 253
Philosophers, a wise sect of, iii. 61 _seq._
Philotas, general of Alexander, ii. 135 and _note_
Phyllis, mistress of Duumvir, ii. 36 _seq._
Phys, King, in the _Rehearsal_, iv. 160
Physicians, the most useful members of a community, ii. 209:
the College of, appealed to, iv. 39:
usually poets, iv. 224 _seq._
Piazza, the, of Covent Garden i. 355; iv. 335 _note_
Piccadilly, i. 41, 346;
ii. 182 _note_;
iii. 302;
iv. 148 and _note_
Picket, Col., an admirer of Florimel, his character, i. 69
Picture, subject for an historical, iv. 78 _seq._:
an allegorical, iii. 82:
a moving, iii. 83 _note_, 283
Pierre, in _Venice Preserved_, iii. 105
Pierrepoint, Lady Mary, ii. 1 _note_
Piety characteristic of all the greatest men, iv. 356 _seq._
Pikestaff, Timothy, i. 89 _note_, 102, 104
Piledea, the friend of Orestea, ii. 148
_Pilgrim's Progress, The_, i. 382
Pilgrimstaff, i. 104
Pimlico, iii. 302
Pincent, Captain, i. 52
Pindarics, a receipt for, ii. 378
Pindust, Mrs. Rebecca, for whom many lovers have died, ii. 400 _seq._
Pinkethman, his company of strollers, i. 42 and _note_:
compared to Bullock, iii. 384, 385:
referred to, i. 67, 68 _note_, 70, 170, 346;
ii. 281;
iii. 327
Pin-money, the curse of, iv. 32 and _note_
Pinto, Ferdinand Mendez, a Portuguese traveller, iv. 288 and _note_
Pip, a man made at cards, i. 107
Piper, Count, i. 399; ii. 67
Pipestaff, i. 104
Pippe, Mrs. Mary, iv. 332
Pirates, literary, ii. 347 _note_ and _seq._
Pistol of Wapping, iv. 85 _note_. _See_ Musket
Plagius, a preacher, iv. 368
_Plain Dealer, The_, by Wycherley, i. 243 _note_;
ii. 246 _note_
Plain English, letters from, iv. 92 _seq._, 158
Plaistow, Mr., iii. 61 _note_
Planché, his _Cyclopædia of Costume_, iii. 192 _note_
Plantwell, Lady, ii. 87
Plato, conductor of Socrates in Chamber
of Fame, ii. 228: a parable on love by, ii. 283 _seq._:
a fable of, iii. 131;
iv. 238, 239: on suicide, iii. 214:
referred to, ii. 70, 71, 390;
iii. 116 and _note_;
iv. 21, 221
Platonne, a professed, i. 262 _seq._
Plautus, iv. 326
Playhouse, the inventory of, by Addison, i. 4
Plays, will revive and drive out the present passion for dress and
noise, i. 18:
the morality of, defended, i. 31:
immoral ones condemned, i. 74
Pleasure, accounts of, directed from White's Chocolate-house, i. 12:
and virtue, a fable of, ii. 324 _seq._:
claims to be called happiness, ii. 325:
or vice, ii. 327:
depraved men of, i. 107:
true art of, not understood, i. 136
Plenty, the god of, ii. 283
Pliny, ii. 80, 169 _note_:
on a good husband, ii. 189:
_Epistles_ of, quoted, ii. 420, 423:
letters to his wife, iii. 186 _seq._, 238:
letters to Gallus, iii. 338:
referred to, iii. 87, 186, 326, 329
Plow Yard, i. 127 _note_
"Plum," a, i. 326; ii. 57; iii. 56
Plumb, Peter, a merchant, his case against the Hon. Thomas Gules, iv.
298 _seq._
Plumbeus, iv. 254 _seq._
Plume, Colonel, in dialogue on duelling, i. 318 _seq._
---- Sir, his clouded cane, iii. 154 _note_
Plutarch, ii. 228, 412 _note_;
iv. 45, 220, 221
Pluto, King of Shades, iii. 213, 224
Poetical vapours, i. 384
---- justice destroys moral effect of tragedies, ii. 233
Poetry, accounts of, from Will's Coffee-house, i 12:
its influence for virtue, ii. 331 _seq._:
for sale, ii. 377 _seq._:
compared to history, ii. 392, 393:
faults and virtues of English poets, iii. 260
Poets, advice to young, an essay on the methods of work, i. 33, 34, 35
"Point of war," a, ii. 315 and _note_
Pointer, his _Chronicle History_, i. 147 _note_
Poland, i. 43, 183, 204; ii. 47, 133;
iii. 218, 219:
---- King of, i. 213
_Polite Conversation_, by Swift, ii. 6 _note_
Political Barometer. _See_ State weather-glass
_Political State of Great Britain_, by Abel Boyer, i. 157 _note_
Politicians, of the Mall, iii. 220 _seq._:
of the coffee-house, iv. 360 _seq._:
referred to, i. 327; iii. 256
Politics, complaint of I. B.'s incursions into, iv. 13 _note_
Poluglossa, her character, i. 344
Polybius, a just historian, ii. 229
Polyglottes, a pedant, iv. 25
Polypragmon (? Harley), his character, iii. 395 _note_ and _seq._
Pompey in the Chamber of Fame, ii. 229:
his modesty, ii. 262:
referred to, iii. 89
---- a blackamoor boy, iv. 251
Pontack, son of President of Bordeaux, iii. 95 _note_
Pontius Pilate, his wife's chambermaid's sister's hat, i. 283
Poor Robin's _Almanac_, i. 169; iv. 169 and _note_
Pope, Alex., his _Pastorals_, i. 112 _note_:
his _Epitaph on Withers_, i. 378 _note_:
his _Rape of the Lock_, ii. 29 _note_, 79 _note_; iv. 353:
his _Epistle to Miss Blount on her leaving the town after the
Coronation_, iv. 336 _note_:
his _The Basset Table_, iv. 337 and _note_:
referred to, i. 8 _note_, 38 _note_, 112 _note_, 380 _note_; ii. 6
_note_, 249 _note_
---- the, i. 49, 50, 60, 61, 71, 73, 94, 102, 155, 316; iii. 85, 86,
375; iv. 128
---- Clement XI., ii. 142
Popham, Elizabeth, wife of Viscount Hinchinbroke, i. 47 _note_, 286
_note_
---- Alexander, of Littlecot, father of Elizabeth, i. 47 _note_, 286
_note_
Poplar, ii. 372 _note_
Porcia, ii. 141
Portland, Duchess of, ii. 104 _note_
Portocarrero, Cardinal, i. 51, 88
Portugal, i. 87, 149, 253; iv. 323
---- Row, iii. 410 _note_
---- King of, i. 94, 106, 149, 261
"Porus," battle of, by Le Brun, i. 74
---- an Indian king, i. 74 _note_
Pory, Dr. Robert, a pluralist, iv. 169 _note_, 382
"Posnet," a, iv. 284 and _note_
Post, days of leaving London, i. 11, 12 and _note_
_Post-Boy, The_, i. 156 and _note_, 347; ii. 211 _note_, 347 _note_;
iii. 112 _note_, 220, 279 _note_; iv. 151 _note_, 152 _note_,
187
_Postman, The_, i. 293 _note_, 347, 349 _note_; ii. 156 _note_, 211
_note_, 272 _note_; iii. 83 _note_, 218, 220, 332 and _note_,
333; iv. 56, 57, 96, 97, 148 _note_, 149 _note_, 150 _note_, 169
_note_, 186
Posture-master, ii. 389 _seq._
Potatrix, Elizabeth, letter from, i. 290
Potsdam, i. 72, 213, 276, 305
Poultry, the, iv. 153 _note_, 379, 381
Poverty, an unhappy female, ii. 283:
referred to, iii. 53, 54
Povey, Charles, started halfpenny post in London, ii. 130 _note_
Powell, George, i. 36 and _note_, 37 _note_; iii. 409
---- Martin, the puppet-show man, i. 100 _note_, 140 _note_, 359
_seq._, 365, 366; ii. 8 _note_ and _seq._, 205; iii. 7, 158, 335
and _note_:
letters from, ii. 9 _seq._, 17 _seq._
_Prælections Physicæ Mathematicæ_, by Whiston, i. 350 _note_
Pre-Adamite, a, ii. 150; iv. 301
Precedence, the difficulties of, ii. 258 _seq._:
among women in Vision of Justice, ii. 353 _seq._
_Predictions for the Year 1712_, by I. B., i. 22 _note_
_Predictions_ of Bickerstaff (_i.e._ Swift), i. 8, 102
Pretender, the, i. 35, 173, 206, 371 _note_; iii. 377
Pretty Fellow, a, imitation gentleman, i. 175:
not a rake, i. 225:
Hannibal and Scipio, in their days, ii. 62 and _note_:
Virgil translated for, iii. 107 _seq._:
referred to, i. 239, 322, 366; ii. 398, 399; iii. 256:
Very Pretty Fellow (which see), i. 198 _seq._
Priam, iii. 172
Pride, some thoughts on, iii. 72 _seq._:
examples of, iii. 74 _seq._
Prie, Marquis de, i. 49, 71, 94
Prim, Mrs., i. 118
---- Beau, ii. 72
---- Penelope, a clear-starcher, petition of, iii. 25
Prior, Mat., at the Smyrna, i. 92 _note_:
his poem on Blenheim, iii. 163 _note_:
referred to, iv. 216, 249 _note_, 310 _note_
Privy Garden, the, iii. 296 and _note_
Proctorstaff, of Clare Hall, kinsman of I. B., iv. 374
Prodicus, a fable by, ii. 324 _seq._
Professions, the lower the understanding, the greater the capacity for
success in, ii. 58
_Project for the Advancement of Religion; by a Person of Quality_,
dedicated to the Countess of Berkeley (by Swift), i. 48 and
_note_, iv. 294 _note_
Properties of Drury Lane on sale, i. 344 _seq._, 358
Prophecy, I. B. will use his powers of, sparingly, i. 14
_---- of Things Past, &c._, by I. B., i. 151
"Prophets, the French," attacked by D'Urfey, i. 100 _note_:
referred to, i. 244 _note_, 301 _note_
_Prospect of Peace, The_, by Tickell, i. 382 _note_
Protestants, French, struggle against Louis XIV., i. 244 _note_
Provence, i. 94; ii. 48