statue, 108; Europa's rape, 112, story of Cadmus, 114; transformation of Actæon into a stag, 119; birth of Bacchus, 122; transformation of Tiresias, 124; of Echo, 125; story of Narcissus, 126; of Pentheus, 130; mariners transformed into dolphins, 131; death of Pentheus, 135; story of Salmacis and Hermaphroditus, 136; loftiness of his ideas, and a remark of his commentator, 141; character of Alexander Ross's notes upon him, ib.; general character of the Metamorphoses, 145; extravagance of fancy displayed at the end of the story of Narcissus, 152; employs everywhere his invention more than his judgment, 153; his beautiful similitude of extreme hope and fear, 279; his metaphors to express liberty, 291; and happiness, 293; his epistle from Dido to Æneas criticised, ii. 361; his faults, ib.; his remark on the tongue of a beautiful female, iii. 145; his precepts on dress in his Art of Love, 175; his poetry sometimes trifling and puerile, 187; his account of the deluge inferior to Milton's, 276; in his Metamorphoses affects the imagination with what is strange, 417; his description of the palace of Fame, 438; recommends modesty in his Art of Love, iv. 181; his praise to Corinna, 206; his station on the floating Parnassus, 222, 223; his poetry characterized by Strada, 240, 241; his daughter rivalled him in poetry, 318; a supposed allusion of his to Virgil, v. 219; his Metamorphoses, for what beholden to antiquity, 224; style and subjects of, 590. Owl, represented on the forelock of an equestrian statue, ii. 348. Owls, and other birds of night, their satire on the sun, ii. 174; two, their conversation reported to the Sultan Mahmoud by his vizier, iv. 33. Ox, a whole one roasted, a dish for the round table, ii. 106. Oxford, Addison's Cato acted at, v. 719. Oxford scholar, his pretensions to a cane settled, ii. 45; and Cambridge jests, recommended to the perusal of a plagiarist of wit, iv. 101; university, particularly favoured the Empress Matilda, v. 23; Queen Elizabeth's reception and speech there, 24; Addison at, 319-321. Oxford, Earl of, the Lord High Treasurer of England, v. 407; charges of impeachment against, 664, 665, 671; on friendly terms with all the literates of his day, 697, note; a great admirer of Lucretius, ib. See Harley. "Oxford coach," Addison an, v. 675. Oyster, its formation an argument of Providence, ii. 462; and the drop of water, a Persian fable, iii. 306. Pack, Major, his Essay on the Roman Elegaic Poets, v. 599. Packet-boat, story of one wrecked, ii. 154. Padua, its devotion to St. Anthony, i. 379; church of St. Justina, 384; Lapis Vituperii in the town-hall, ib.; its university and cloth manufacture, 385; the original of Padua from Virgil, ib. Pagan deities, their worship mixt with absurdities, iii. 465. Pagan monument of two persons shipwrecked near Ravenna, i. 399. Pagan tombs, extravagant fancies on them, i. 476. Pagan theology, its fables, how to be used by modern poets, iv. 44, 45; allusions to them fashionable at the revival of letters, 45, note. Pagan writer, an eminent one, his remark on atheism, iv. 12. Pagan writers, contemporaries of Jesus Christ and his disciples, why they do not mention any particulars relating to him, v. 104; especially when related by the Jews, ib.; facts in our Saviour's history attested by some of them, 108; by others who were converted to Christianity, 113; their testimonies extended to all the particulars of our Saviour's history, 115; multitudes of learned converts, 117; names of several, 118; had means of informing themselves of the truth of our Saviour's history; from the proceedings, 119; the characters, sufferings, and miracles of those who published it, 120; from oral testimony, 121, 123; and its agreement with the written Gospels, 127; from miracles occasionally performed by the primitive Christians, 129; martyrdom a standing miracle, 130; had a great share in their conversion, 132; confirmed in their belief by the completion of our Saviour's prophecies, ib.; lives of the primitive Christians another means of their conversion, 137; Jewish prophecies relating to our Saviour, an argument for their belief, 139. Paganizings of a future state, unavoid able in the plan of Telemachus, ii. 129. Page, Mrs. Anne, her fondness for chinaware, iv. 332. Pain, the son of Misery, married to Pleasure, an allegory, iii. 47, 48. Painter and tailor, often contribute to the success of a tragedy more than the poet, ii. 313. Painters, represented in a picture joining in a concert of music, ii. 115; great ones, often employ their pencils on seapieces, iv. 9. Painting, with what design invented, ii. 51; a less natural kind of representation than statuary, iii. 411; but more so than writing, 412. Pair of breeches, a conceit of the people respecting the commonwealth coin, ii. 187, note. Palace of Fame described, ii. 14. Palæstrina, described, i. 485; fragments there of the Temple of Fortune, ib. Palatine, mountain, supposed to abound in buried treasures of sculpture, i. 470. Palladio, his design of the church of St. Justina at Padua, i. 384; said to have learnt a rule in architecture from an ancient Ionic pillar, 478. Palm-branch, an emblem of victory, i. 289. Palm-tree, why represented on coins relating to Judea, i. 332. Palm-trees, plantations of, near St. Remo, though not to be found in other parts of Italy, i. 360. Palmes, Brigadier, v. 360. Pam, a greater favourite with a gaming lady than her husband, iv. 232. Pamphlet, stirring up compassion for the rebels, examined, v. 1; the author argues on supposed facts, 14. Pamphleteer, takes precedence of singlesheet writers, iv. 48. Pamphlets, political, Mr. Addison's "State of the War," a model for, iv. 363, note. Pan, a fine head of him in porphyry at Florence, i. 497. Pancras church-yard, epitaph in, iv. 66, 67. Pandæmonium, fine description of, iii. 208; proposed to be represented in fireworks, iv. 188. Pandora's box, moral deduced from that story, iii. 493. Panegyric on the Princess of Wales, iv. 474; well written, ib. note. Pantænus, who travelled in the second century, found St. Matthew's Gospel in India, v. 127. Pantaloon, a standing character in Venetian comedy, i. 394. Pantheon, at Rome, now called the Rotunda, i. 418; its effect on the imagination, iii. 409. Paper-manufacture, its benefit to the public, iii. 348; its wonders enumerated, 348, 349. Papers of the Spectator, publisher's account of the number distributed, ii. 253. Paphos, prayers from, to Jupiter, iii. 369. Papirius, the Roman senator, story of him, v. 20. Papist king, can never govern a Protestant people, v. 60. Paradin, Mons., his remark on the headdresses of the fourteenth century, ii. 420. Paradise, how described by Milton, iii. be ascertained, 180; actors, 181; why sentiuniversally interesting, 184; ments, 185; an exceptionable pleasantry noticed, 189; language, 189, 190; its event unhappy, 198; fable interwoven with improbable circumstances, 200; too many digressions, ib.; frequent allusion to heathen fables, 202; ostentation of learning, ib.; jingle of words, ib.; technical terms, 203. First book Simplicity in opening the poem, 204; person, character, and speech of Satan sublimely appropriate, 206; catalogue of evil spirits, 207; character of Mammon, and description of Pandæmonium, beautiful, 208; noble similies and allusions, 209. Second book.-Satan's encounter with Sin and Death-Moloch's character, 211; Belial, 212; Mammon, 213; Beelzebub, ib.; rising of the assembly, 215; diversions of the fallen angels, ib.; genealogy of Sin and Death managed with delicacy, ib.; gates of Hell-Chaos, 216. Third book.-Failure of Milton in the speeches of the Divine persons, 218; the Almighty's survey of the creation, ib.; the fable a masterpiece in reconciling the marvellous with the probable, 220; fine conception of the angel in the sun, and Satan's flight thither, 222. Fourth book.-Description of Paradise, 224; Satan's meeting and conference with Zephon and Gabriel, 226; the golden scales, 227; Adam and Eve, 228; their evening worship, 230. Fifth book.-Eve's dream, 231; morning hymn, 232; Raphael's descent to Paradise, 234; revolt in Heaven, 235. Sixth book. Sublime description of Messiah, 242. Seventh book. The six days' works of the creation, 244. Eighth book.-Adam relates to Raphael his own history, 250; his love for Eve, 254. Ninth book.-Story of the serpent and the tree of life, taken from Scripture, 257; Eve's temptation and transgression, 260. Tenth book.-Greater variety of persons than in any other, 262; guardian angels' return to Heaven from Paradise after the fall, ib.; arrival of Sin and Death into the works of creation, 263; Satan's return to Hell, and transformation, 265; Adam's remorse and despair, 266; bold personifications of Milton, 269. Eleventh book.-Penitence of our first parents on the spot where their sentence was pronounced, 270; intercession of Messiah, 271; eclipse of the sun, a noble incident, 272; Adam and Eve's regrets on hearing their sentence of expulsion from Paradise, 273; Adam's visions, 274; of the deluge, and its effect on Adam, 277. Twelfth book.-Sketch of the plagues of Egypt, 278; Abraham, 279; Messiah foretold, ib.; noble conclusion of the poem, 280, small alteration in it proposed, 281; judicious division of the poem into twelve books, 281, 282; moral to be deduced from it, 282; time of the action, from the fourth book to the end, ib.; replete with scenes most proper to strike the imagination, 418; Tonson's profits from, v. 695. Paradoxes, the essentials of a Tory's creed, iv. 452; a most absurd one in politics, v. 30. Paragrams, several species of puns so called, ii. 354. Parallel passages frequent in Homer and Milton, iii. 262. Parallels, of Homer, Virgil, and Ovid, iii. 416; fashionable in Mr. Addison's time, ib. note. Paranomasia, a species of pun, ii. 355. Pardon, promised by the Pretender to those who will rebel for him, iv. 434; general pardon of the rebels, its expediency discussed, v. 2. Pardons, why necessary in a government, v. 4. Parentage, change of, in the allegory of justice, ii. 33. Parental love in animals, exemplified by a barbarous experiment, ii. 458, 459; ceases, when no longer necessary for the preservation of the species, 459. Parents, their taking a liking to a particu lar profession often occasions their sons to miscarry, ii. 274; their hardness of heart towards their children inexcusable, iii. 42. Paris, curiosities there, described, iv. 182; Parker, Charles, an ecclesiastic, his monu ment to the Dukes of Suffolk and Lorrain at Pavia, i. 365; inscription on his own monument, 366. Parker, Lord Chancellor, preamble, v. 604; letter to, ib. note. Parker, Geo., son of the Lord Chancellor, and afterwards Earl of Macclesfield, v. 645, and note. Parliament, the Pretender's remark on, iv. 431; a Scotch one to be called by him, 434; Irish Houses of, grant for clerks and officers, v. 501; Addison's arguments on the Triennial elections of, 614; silent members of, in 1715-16, 742. Parliamentary privilege, Steele's plea of, v. 713. Parr's, Dr., praise of Addison's Latin Dissertation on the Roman Poets, v. 587, note. Parrot, Michael, admonished respecting his advertisements, ii. 168. Parsimony, a particular favourite of Avarice, ii. 90. Parsley, emblematical of Achaia, i. 329; a garland of it, the reward of the victor at the Nemæan games, ib. Parson Patch, iv. 224. Parthenope, the ancient name of Naples, its origin, i. 430. Parthia, described on a medal and by the poets, i. 333. Parthians, a medal on the victory of Lucius Verus over them, i. 311. Partialities in the national judicature, glanced at, iv. 170. Participle, its use as a substantive, agree able to the English idiom, ii. 275, note, how to be used instead of a substantive, iii. 170, note; two near together have an ill effect, 204, note; misused as a substantive, iv. 311, note. Parties, in a nation, see things in different lights, iv. 463; whence originating, 490; may bring destruction on our country, v. 24; their animosities disturb public entertainments, 25. Partridge, John, the astronomer, advertisement respecting him, ii. 158; Swift's jokes upon, in the name of Bickerstaffe, v. 686. Party-contests once managed with goodbreeding, iv. 482. Party-fictions of the Tories exposed, iv. 425, 426. Party-lying exposed, iv. 25. Party-patches, account of, ii. 389. Party-spirit, its evil tendency, ii. 476; prejudicial to the judgment, ib.; occasionally prevails in all governments, 477; association proposed, to extinguish it, 478; more prevalent in the country than in town, 480; injurious to the cause of virtue, iii. 138. Party-violence, disclaimed by the Spectator, ii. 230, 231; his endeavours to mitigate it, 267. Party-writers, how they recommend their productions, iv. 106. Paschal, his observation on Cromwell's death, iv. 257. Pasquin, the statue, dressed in a dirty shirt, in ridicule of Sextus Quintus, ii. 277. Passing-bells, who are such in conversation, ii. 118. Passionate men unfit for public business, iii. 487. Passions, exhibit themselves in the countenance, ii. 398; according to Plato, survive the body, 405; their various operations, as more or less swayed by reason, iii. 96; instanced in the story of two negroes, 96, 97; the use of them, 156; descriptions most pleasing which move them, 419; those of hope and fear, 492; affect us more when asleep than when awake, iv. 2. Passions of the Fan, a treatise, for the use of the author's scholars, ii, 430. Passive obedience and non-resistance, state of the controversy respecting, iv. 390; the doctrine of Turks and Indians, 391; its assertors have always been the favourites of weak kings, 392; tends to make a good king a very bad one, 393; ruined James II., 394; of all kinds, disallowed, except from a lover to his mistress, iv. 426; misrepresented to the people, 435; its real meaning, ib. Pastoral hymn from the 23rd Psalm, iii. 446. Pastorals of Pope and Philips, v. 696. Patches, worn by the ladies as party-signals, ii. 389. Patent fee of £100 per annum, granted to Addison, v. 640. Pathetic, not essential to the sublime, iii. 243. Patience, her office in the Vision of the Miseries, iv. 94; a commander in the war of the sexes, 274. Patin, Mons., his abhorrence of the English, iv. 506. Patrician, The, No. I., v. 249; No. II., 280; No. III., 283. Patriot, how a true one may console himself under obloquy or falsehood, iv. 641. Patriotism, recommended as a moral virtue, iv. 411; a stimulus to great actions, 413. Patriots of a certain kind, more numerous in England than in any other country, iv. 27. Patronage of a prince necessary to learning, v. 23. Paul, Mrs., married to Brigadier Meredith, v. 357. Paul, St., describes our absence from, and presence with, the Lord, iv. 35; his account of being caught up into the third heaven, 131; his affection for his countrymen, 414; he and Barnabas persecuted by women, v. 21. Paul the hermit, v. 123. Paul Veronese, his painting of the martyrdom of St. George, i. 378; of the martyrdom of St. Justina, 384. Paul's, St., the fox-hunter's visit there, v. 71. Pausanias, his account of Trophonius's cave, iv. 152. Pause, in music, its fine effect, ii. 97. Pausilypo, the grotto of, described, i. 431; the beautiful prospect of its mount, 449. Pavia, once a metropolis, now a poor town, i. 365; monuments at the Ticinum of the ancients, i. 366. Pax Gulielmi auspiciis Europæ reddita, Poema, i. 233. Payment of Addison's salaries, official entries of, v. 643. Peace, described on a medal, i. 275; the olive-branch an appropriate token, 276; figure of, on a medal of Vespasian, 313; general, a caution to poets on its celebration, iv. 46; a couple of letters, the fruits of it, 181, 183; none can be made without an entire disunion of the French and Spanish monarchies, 340, 345, 347; a time of, is always a time of prodigies, 495; furnishes few materials for history, 498. Pedantry, learning without common sense, ii. 134; in learning, like hypocrisy in religion, 149. Pedants, an insupportable kind of them noticed, ii. 134; described by Boileau, 135; their combination to extol one another's labours, 149; their various classes, 432; who so to be reputed, ib.; the book-pedant the most insupportable, 433; apt to extol one another, ib; how they often make buffoons of themselves, v. 219. Pedro II., Don, king of Portugal, his death, v. 355. Peer, an English one, his pleasant story of a French duellist, ii. 424. Peerage Bill, proposed by Lord Sunderland, v. 236; the subject of a controversy between Addison and Steele in the Plebeian and Old Whig, ib.; opposed by Sir R. Walpole, ib.; pamphlets occasioned by, 248, 306. Peers, on increasing the number of, v. 262; on turning the sixteen Scottish elective ones into twenty-five hereditary ones, 301. Pegasus, how represented on the floating Parnassus, iv. 222. Pelion, Homer's epithet on, iii. 239. Pelta, the buckler of the Amazons, i. 334. Pembroke, Countess dowager of, epitaph on her, iii. 328. Penance of Mary Magdalene, tradition respecting, i. 359. Pendentisque Dei, in Juvenal, explained, i. 463. Penitents, female, forbidden to appear at confession without tuckers, iv. 225. Pension, retiring, v. 641. See Salaries. Pension List, Tom Onslow's motion fo considering the, v. 646. Pentheus, story of, i. 130; his death, 135 Peplus, part of the Roman dress, i. 261. Pepper, a production of Arabia, mention ed by Persius, i. 336. Perfection, distinguished into essentia. and comparative, ii. 381; the soul's advancement to, a proof of its immortality, 444, and note; spiritual, many kinds of i besides those of the human soul, iv. 53 Pericardium of a coquette's heart, mark- tween them and the Christians in the Perrault, ridicules the homely sentiments Perron, says Gretzer, has a deal of wit for Perry, Micajah, Lord Mayor of London, Persecution, religious, personified, ii. Persia, the Queen of, her pin-money, iii. Persian emperor, his pompous titles, ii. 505. Persian ambassador, at Paris, his daily Persians, ancient, their opinions on par- Persians, modern, our silk-weavers, ii. 372; Persons, imaginary, not proper for an Perspicuity, a great requisite in epic po- Pertinax, his bust at Florence, i. 496; Pescennius Niger, a scarce medallion of Pestilence, awfully personified in Scrip- Peterborough, Lord, to be superseded by Peterborough, Lady, invited to dine with Petition of Simon Trippit, ii. 44; to po- Petits esprits, a class of readers of poetry, Petre, Lord, family of, v. 697. Petticoat-politicians, a seminary of them Phædria, his request to his mistress on Phaethusa, sister of Phaeton, transformed Phaeton, story of, from Ovid's Metamor- Phalaris, his consolation to one who had Phaon, the inconstant lover of Sappho, iii. Pharos of Ravenna, its remains, i. 399; Phenomena of nature, imitated by the art |