Part 24 (1/2)
=Plumptre, Edward Hayes.= 182 Poet and translator. Author Lazarus and other Poems, etc., Byways of Scripture, etc., and translation of Sophocles and aeschylus. His verse is didactic in character. _Pub. Dut. Mac. Rou._
=Pole, Reginald, Cardinal.= 1500-1558. Theological writer.
=Pollock, Frederick.= 184 Jurist. Author Principles of Contract, Digest of Law of Partners.h.i.+p, Spinoza: his Life and Philosophy, and The Land Laws in Macmillan's Eng. Citizen Series. _Pub. Mac. Th._
=Pollock, Robert.= 1799-1827. Scotch poet. Author of The Course of Time, a heavy, didactic, blank-verse poem, once very popular. _Pub.
Apl. Ca. Clx._
=Pomfret, John.= 1667-1703. Poet. Author of The Choice. _See Life, by Dr. Johnson._
=Poole, John.= 1786-1872. Dramatist and humorist. Author of the comedy, Paul Pry, Little Pedlington, a vol. of witty sketches, The Comic Sketch-Book, etc.
=Poole, Matthew.= 1624-1679. Biblical Commentator. _Pub. Ca._
=Pope, Alexander.= 1688-1744. A correct, polished poet whose verse lacks sentiment and feeling. The heroic couplet is his usual measure.
His translation of Homer, though a fine effort, lacks the freshness and spontaneity of its original. His chief poems are Essay on Man, Moral Essays, The Dunciad, a talented but terrible satire, and The Rape of the Lock, a brilliant, glittering piece of literary trifling.
_See editions of, by A. W. Ward, Cowden-Clarke, and Rossetti._ _See Lowell's My Study Windows; also Leslie Stephen's Pope in Eng. Men of Letters._ _Pub. Apl. Le. Mac. Rou._
=Porson, Richard.= 1759-1808. Cla.s.sical scholar and writer of note.
_See Watson's Life of, 1861._
=Porter, Anna Maria.= 1781-1832. Novelist. Don Sebastian is perhaps the best of her numerous novels.
=Porter, Jane.= 1776-1850. Novelist. Sister to A. M. P. The famous romances Thaddeus of Warsaw and Scottish Chiefs are her chief works.
_Pub. Apl. Le. Lip. Por._
=Powell, Baden.= 1796-1860. Philosopher. Author Hist. Nat. Philosophy, Spirit of Inductive Philosophy, Study and Evidence of Christianity, etc.
=Poynter, E. Frances.= 18-- ----. Novelist. Author My Little Lady, Ersilia, Among the Hills, etc. _Pub. Ho._
=Praed [pr[=a]d], Winthrop Mackworth.= 1802-1839. Poet. A writer of pleasing verse, of which the Belle of the Ball is a good example. _See Complete Works, edited by Sir Geo. Young._ _See Ward's Eng. Poets, vol. 4._ _Pub. Arm._
=Price, Bonamy.= 180 Political economist. Author Practical Political Economy, Currency and Banking, Principles of Currency, etc.
_Pub. Apl._
=Prideaux [pr[)i]d'o, or pr[)i]d-[)u]x], Humphrey.= 1648-1724.
Theologian. Noted for his Connection of the Old and New Testaments.
_Pub. Har. Mac._
=Priestley, Joseph.= 1733-1804. Theologian and scientist. Author of over 300 books on chemistry, theology, metaphysics, etc. _See Works of, 1824, 26 vols._ _See Life of, by Corry._
=Pringle, Thomas.= 1789-1834. Scotch poet. His best poem is the spirited Afar in the Desert. _See Grant Wilson's Poets of Scotland._
=Prior, Matthew.= 1664-1721. Poet. A sprightly writer whose light and airy style is seen to best advantage in his comic narrative poems.