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. 465.
Pomposo, i. 406. 
PONDICHERRY, v. 124, n. 2. 
PONSONBY, Hon. Mr., v. 263. 
POOR, cannot agree, ii. 103;
  condition of them the national distinction,