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PHILIPS, AMBROSE, poet and dramatist.......... ENGLAND, 1671-1749 PHILIPS, JOHN, poet... ENGLAND, 1676-1708 PHILLIPS CHARLES, barrister, IRELAND, about 1788-1859 NAMES, NATIVITY, ETC., OF QUOTED AUTHORS. PHILLIPS, WENDELL, orator and abolitionist....... UNITED STATES, 1811-1884 PIATT, JOHN JAMES, poet, 111 UNITED STATES, 1835-L. PIERPONT, JOHN, poet and divine, UNITED STATES, 1785-1866 297 482 PIGNOTTI, LORENZO, physician, historian and fabulist..... ITALY, 1739-1812 21 PILPAY or BIDPAI, name applied to a court scholar of an Indian prince. This Bidpai is supposed to have related a series of fables or tales in order to reform and interest the dissolute prince, Dabshelim about B.C. 4th Cent. 19 505 PINCKNEY, CHARLES C., statesman and soldier. UNITED STATES, 1746-1825 469 "PINDAR, PETER," See WOLCOTT, JOHN. PIOZZI, MRS., HESTER L. THRALE, author and friend of Dr. Johnson.. ENGLAND, 1741-1821 351 PITT, CHRISTOPHER, poet and translator. ENGLAND, 1699-1748 215 PITT, WILLIAM, Earl of Chatham, statesman and orator. ENGLAND, 1708-1778 104 304 414 437 469 521 529 Pitt, m., poet. ENGLAND, died 1840 445 536 PITTACUS, one ofthe Seven Sages, statesman, philosopher, and poet, GREECE, about b.c. 652-569 497 503 509 PLATO, philosopher GREECE, about .429-347 104 160 275 277 314 361 371 452 480 495 505 508 567 PLAUTUS, TITUS MACCIUS, Latin dramatist ITALY, about B.C. 254-184 151 308 500 507 508 558 675 676 678 680 681 685 686 690 691 692 693 695 698 700 701 702 704 705 707 708 709 710 713 714 715 716 717 718 719 720 722 723 724 726 727 729 733 735 740 741 742 743 744 745 747 748 750 752 PLAYFORD, JOHN, writer on music, 72 ENGLAND, 1613-1693 PLINY "THE ELDER." CAIUS PLINIUS SECUNDUS, naturalist... ITALY, A.D. 23-79 54 167 225 266 340 445 457 481 499 508 586 649 680 681 690 721 726 728 729 736 751 752 PLINY "THE YOUNGER." CAIUS CECI- LIUS SECUNDUS, author and orator.............. ITALY, about A.D. 62-113 683 691 608 708 712 716 718 725 730 733 746 PLUMPTRE, EDWARD HAYES, author, theologian, and scholar, ENGLAND, 1821-1891 46 205 PLUTARCH, philosopher and biographer.......... GREECE, about A.D. 46-120 2 15 72 167 168 185 253 293 POE, EDGAR ALLAN, poet and prose writer......... UNITED STATES, 1809-1849 POLLOK, ROBERT, religious poet, SCOTLAND, about 1798-1827 POLYBIUS, historian....... GREECE, B.C. 204-125 282 POMFRET, JOHN, poet...... ENGLAND, 1667-1703 455 512 POMPADOUR, MME. JEAN A. P., Mistress of Louis XV.. FRANCE, 1721-1764 769 POPE, ALEXANDER, poet and critic (Quotations marked in concordance with sign ‡).... ENGLAND, 1688-1744 POPE, WALTER, physician and writer, ENGLAND, 1630-1714 465 PORTER, MRS. DAVID, 671 PORTER, HENRY, dramatist, ENGLAND, 15 -16 493 PORTER, HORACE, general, UNITED STATES, 1837-L 482 PORTEUS, BEILBY, bishop and writer of prose and verse...... ENGLAND, 1731-1808 11 92 137 403 638 POTTER, HENRY CODMAN, Protestant Episcopal bishop, UNITED STATES, 1835-1908 15 154 POWELL, SIR JOHN, Judge. ENGLAND, 1633-1696 438 PRAED, WINTHROP MACKWORTH, poet, writer of Vers de Société, ENGLAND, 1802-1839 15 39 129 199 380 451 521 589 628 PRENTICE, GEORGE DENISON, poet, humorist, and journalist, UNITED STATES, 1802-1870 71 638 PRESTON, HARRIET W., writer and translator, UNITED STATES, about 1843-L. 278 PRESTON, MARGARET J., poet, UNITED STATES, 1838-1897 221 233 234 303 463 611 615 625 PRIESTLY, DR. JOSEPH, philosopher, theologian, and the discoverer of oxygen... ENGLAND, 1733-1804 158 PRINGLE, THOMAS, poet.... SCOTLAND, 1789-1834 21 PRIOR, MATTHEW, poet and diplomatist.. ..ENGLAND, 1664-1721 22 27 36 39 45 53 83 86 108 129 158 162 164 183 185 187 242 308 314 324 326 339 349 372 414 426 429 440 442 448 455 458 464 502 505 507 513 514 527 534 568 577 589 630 641 658 665 PROCTER, ADELAIDE ANNE, poet, ENGLAND, 1825-1864 49 349 376 445 466 540 544 569 576 PROCTER, BRYAN WALLER, "Barry Cornwall," poet and author, ENGLAND, 1787-1874 PROCTER, EDNA DEAN, author, UNITED STATES, 1838-L PROPERTIUS, Roman elegiac poet, UMBRIA, about b.c. 50 "PROUT, FATHER," See MAHONY, FRANCIS PRUD'HOMME (SULLY), poet, FRANCE, 1839-1907 771 PRUDHON, CHAS. F. J., comedian, FRANCE, 1845-L— PSEUDO — SALLUST, name given to the
spurious Sallust. 256 497 PULTENEY, WILLIAM, statesman and orator. .. ENGLAND, 1684-1764 331 PYCHOWSKA, L. D.