| Padlocks for the mouth | 533 |
| Pages in gentlemen's houses | 214 Fn. 2 |
| Painter's part in a tragedy | 42 |
| Painting the art of of the face | 83, 129, 226, 555 41 |
| Palmquist, Monsieur | 43 |
| Pamphilio, a good master | 137 |
| Pamphlets, defamatory | 541 |
| Pantheon Penkethman's at Rome | 31 Fn. 3 415 |
| Paradin, Guillaume | 98 Fn. 3 |
| Paradise of Fools | 460 |
| Paradise Lost, Addison's papers on | 267, 273, 279, 285, 291, 297, 303, 309, 315, 321, 325, 327, 333, 339, 345, 354, 357, 363, 369 |
| Parents | 21, 150, 181, 189, 192, 235, 263, 313, 330, 449, 532, 539 |
| Parish clerks, advice to | 372 |
| Parker, Richard | 474 Fn. 3 |
| Parnassus, Vision of | 514 |
| Parnell, Thomas | 460 Fn. 1 |
| Parricide, how punished in China | 189 |
| Parthenia, letter of, upon the ladies' library | 140 |
| Party patches | 57, 125, 126, 243, 399, 432, 507 81 |
| Particles, English | 18 |
| Pascal | 116 Fn. 3 |
| Pasquinades | 23 Fn. 5 |
| Passion of the fan | 202, 438, 528 102 |
| Passions, the | 31, 71, 215, 224, 255, 408, 418, 564 |
| Pastorals, Philips's | 523 |
| Patches party use of | 50 81 |
| Patience | 312, 501, 559 |
| Patrons | 214 |
| Paul Lorrain | 338 |
| Paul, Saint | 633 |
| Paul's Cathedral, St., Indian kings on | 50 |
| Peace negotiations | 45 45 Fn. 1 |
| Pearce, Zachary | 572 |
| Pedants | 105, 286, 617 |
| Pedigrees, vanity of | 612 |
| Peepers | 53 |
| Peevish fellow, a | 438 |
| Penkethman, W. | 31 Fn. 3, 370 Fn. 5 |
| Penruddock's rising in the West | 313 Fn. 3 |
| Penseroso, Il | 425 |
| Pentathlum | 161 |
| People, the wealth of a country | 200 |
| Pericles | 81, 633 |
| Perrault, Charles | 279 Fn. 11, 303 Fn. 3 |
| Perry, Mrs. | 92 Fn. 1 |
| Persecution, religious | 459 |
| Persian education soldier reproved | 99, 189, 337 427 |
| Persius | 379 |
| Peter the Great compared with Louis XIV. | 43 Fn. 2 139 |
| Petronius his story of the Ephesian lady mood of, at death | 11 Fn. 1 349 |
| Petticoat politicians | 109, 127, 140 305 |
| Petty, Sir William | 200 |
| Phædra and Hippolitus, a tragedy | 18 Fn. 9 |
| Pharamond his edict against duelling letter to | 76 Fn. 1, 84 Fn. 1 97 480 |
| Phidias | 415 |
| Philanthropy | 177 |
| Philantia, a votary | 79 |
| Philips, Ambrose | 223 Fn. 2, 229, 290 Fn. 2, 338 Fn. 2, 400, 523, 578 |
| Philopater on his daughter's dancing | 466 |
| Philosophers | 195, 634 |
| Philosophy | 7, 10, 22, 175, 201, 393, 420 |
| Phocion | 133, 188, 448 |
| Phœbe and Colin, a poem | 603 |
| Physic | 195 |
| Physicians | 16, 21, 25, 234 |
| Physiognomy | 86, 206, 518 |
| Pictures | 67, 83, 107, 109, 226, 244, 248, 416, 418 |
| Picts, what women are | 41 |
| Piety | 201 |
| Pindar | 160, 467 |
| Pindaric writing | 58 Fn. 5 |
| Pin money | 295 |
| Piper of Hamelin, the | 5 |
| Pisistratus | 527 |
| Pitchpipe | 228 |
| Pittacus, a saying of | 574 |
| Pity | 208, 397, 418, 442, 588 |
| Pix, Mary | 51 Fn. 8 |
| Places of trust | 469, 629 |
| Plain dealing | 460 |
| Planets | 420 |
| Planting | 583, 589 |
| Plato | 23 Fn. 2, 86 Fn. 12, 90, 183, 211 Fn. 2, 237, 507, 624 |
| Platonic love | 400 |
| Players | 141, 370, 502, 529 |
| Plays, modern | 22, 592 |
| Pleaders | 197 |
| Pleasant fellows | 462 |
| Pleasure | 146, 151, 152, 183, 312, 424, 600, 624 |
| Pleasures of Imagination, Essays on | 411-421 |
| Pliny | 230, 467 Fn. 1, 484 Fn. 1, 525, 554 |
| Plot, Robert | 447 Fn. 1 |
| Plutarch | 125 Fn. 1, 180, 188, 229, 483, 494, 507 |
| Poacher, request from a | 168 |
| Poetry | 39, 40, 44, 51, 58, 220, 253, 314, 405, 417, 418, 419, 421 |
| Poetical justice | 40, 548 |
| Polite imaginations | 411 |
| Politeness | 119 |
| Political arithmetic | 200 |
| Politicians | 43, 305, 403, 556, 567, 568 |
| Poll, a way of arguing | 239 |
| Polycarpus, beloved by all | 280 |
| Pompey | 293 |
| Pontignon, M. | 90 |
| Poor, the | 200, 232 Fn. 3, 430 |
| Pope, Alexander his Essay on Criticism an idea from commended his Pastorals his Messiah Letter and Verses on Adrian's dying words his Miscellany | 65 Fn. 2 210 Fn. 1 253 Fn. 2 223 Fn. 2 378 527 532 523 |
| Popular applause | 188 |
| Porta, Baptista della, on Physiognomy | 86 Fn. 6 |
| Posterity | 101, 583 |
| Postman, newspaper | 1 Fn. 8 |
| Pottière, Dominic, a French privateer | 350 |
| Poverty | 150, 464 |
| Powell, junior, his Puppet-show | 14 Fn. 2, 31 Fn. 5, 372 |
| Powell, George, the actor | 31 Fn. 4, 40 |
| Power, despotic | 287 |
| Praise | 38, 73, 188, 238, 349, 467, 551 |
| Prayer | 207, 236, 312, 391 |
| Precedence | 119, 529 |
| Précieuses, the | 45 Fns. 2 & 4 |
| Prediction, vulgar arts of | 505 |
| Preface to the Bishop of St. Asaph's Sermons | 384 |
| Prejudice | 101, 263, 432 |
| Prepossession | 117 |
| Prerogative | 480 |
| Presumption | 187 |
| Pride | 33, 201, 394, 462 |
| Prince, Mr., dances of | 466 |
| Princes, good and bad | 139 |
| Printing | 166, 367, 582 |
| Prior | 141 |
| Procrastination | 151 |
| Procrustes, bed of | 58 |
| Prodicus | 183 |
| Professions, the three learned | 21 |
| Projector of town entertainments, a | 31 |
| Promisers | 448 |
| Pronunciation | 451 |
| Prospects | 411, 412, 418 |
| Prosperity | 237 |
| Prosper, Will. | 19, 20 |
| Proverbs of Solomon, in verse | 410 |
| Providence | 120, 237, 293, 441, 543 |
| Prudence | 293 |
| Prudes at the play | 208 |
| Psalm xxiii. translated cxiv. cxxxix. singing in church | 441 461 399 205 |
| Psalmanazar, George | 14 Advertisement Fn. 1 |
| Pugg the Monkey, Adventures of | 343 |
| Pulvillios | 63 Fn. 1 |
| Punchinello | 14 |
| Punishments in school | 157 |
| Puns | 61, 396, 454, 504 |
| Puppet-show, Powell's | 14 Fn. 2 |
| Purcell, Henry | 29 Fn. 3 |
| Puzzle, Tom, in argument | 476 |
| Pyramids of Egypt | 415 |
| Pyrrhus, King | 180 |
| Pythagoras | 447, 586 |