328, n. 4; iv. 339. PIOZZI, Mrs. See THRALE, Mrs. Piozzi Letters. See under MRS. THRALE, Johnson's letters to her. Pit, to, iii. 185. PITCAIRNE, Archibald, v. 58. PITT, William. See Chatham, Earl of. PITT, William, the son, Boswell, neglects, iii. 213, n. 1, 464; iv. 261, n. 3; letter to him, iv. 261, n. 3; his answer, ib.; called to order, iv. 297, n. 2; Fox a political apostate, calls, iv. 297, n. 2; compared with, iv. 292; honesty of mankind, on the, iii. 236, n. 3; Johnson's pension, proposed addition to, iv. 350, n. 1; Macaulay, attacked by, ib.; ministry, his, iv. 165, n. 3, 170, n. 1, 264, n. 2; motion for reform of parliament, iv. 165, n. 1; tax on horses, v. 51. PITTS, Rev. John, iv. 181, n. 3. PITY, not natural to man, i. 437. PLACE-HUNTERS, iii. 234. PLACES OF PUBLIC ENTERTAINMENT, v. 295, n. 2. PLAGUE OF LONDON, Dr. Hodges, ii. 341, n. 3. PLAIDS, v. 85. Plain Dealer, i. 156, 173, n. 3, 174. Plan of the Dictionary. See Dictionary. PLANTA, Joseph, ii. 399, n. 2. PLANTATIONS (settlements), ii. 12. PLANTERS. See AMERICA, planters. PLANTING TREES, Johnson recommends, iii. 207. See SCOTLAND, trees. PLASSEY, Battle of, v. 124, n. 2. PLAUTUS, quoted, i. 467, n. 2. PLAXTON, Rev. G., i. 36, n. 2. PLAYERS, action of all tragic players is bad, v. 38; below ballad-singers, iii. 184; Camden's, Lord, familiarity with Garrick, iii. 311; change in their manners, i. 168; Churchill's lines on them, i. 168, n. 1; Collier's censure, i. 167, n. 2; dancing-dogs, like, ii. 404; declamation too measured, ii. 92, n. 4; drinking tea with a player, v. 46; emphasis wrong, i. 168; 'fellow who claps a hump on his back,' iii. 184; 'fellow who exhibits himself for a shilling,' ii. 234; Johnson's prejudice against them shown in the Life of Savage, i. 167; Life of Dryden, ib., n. 2; more favourable judgment, i. 201; iv. 244, n. 2; lawyers, compared with, ii. 235; past compared with present, v. 126; Puritans, abhorred by, i. 168, n. 1; Reynolds defends them, ii. 234; transformation into characters, iv. 243-4; Whitehead's compliment to Garrick, i. 402. See GARRICK, profession. PLEASED WITH ONESELF, iii. 328. PLEASING, negative qualities please more than positive, iii. 149. PLEASURE, aim of all our ingenuity, iii. 282; happiness, compared with, iii. 246; harmless pleasure, iii. 388; monastic theory of it, iii. 292; in itself a good, iii. 327; no man a hypocrite in it, iv. 316; partakers in it, iii. 328; 'public pleasures counterfeit,' iv. 316, n. 2. Pleasures of the 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. 7. Pomponius Mela de situ Orbis, i.