n. 4;
    marries him, ii. 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.