NAMES, NATIVITY, ETC., OF QUOTED AUTHORS
Poe, Edgar Allan, poet and prose writer United States, 1809-1849
174 203 374 402 656 740 761 797
Poincare, Raymond, Prime Minister 224 and President of France, Lorraine, 1860-L. Pole, Reginald, cardinal, Archbishop 853 of Canterbury. . . .England, 1500-1558 Polignac, Melchior de, cardinal, statesman, writer. . .France, 1661-1741 15 65 219 237 Pollard, Josephine, poet, 291 United States, 1843-1892 Pollok, Robert, religious poet, Scotland, about 1798-1827 55 258 299 383 485 510 517 538 567 627 693 714 734 782 Polybius, historian Greece, b.c. 204-125
Pomfret, John, poet England, 1667-1703
651 779
Pompadour, Mme. Jean A. P., Mis- 305 tress of Louis XV. . . France, 1721-1764 Pompey, Cneitjs, Roman general, 767 triumvir b.c. 106-48 Pomponius, LiETUS Julius, antiqua- 338 rian, historian Italy, 1425-1497 Poor Richard's Almanac, a colleclection of precepts, published by Benjamin Franklin, in the name of an imaginary author, Richard Saunders (see Franklin). Poor Robin's Almanac. This first 38 appeared in 1663. Discontinued in 1828.
- Pope, Alexander, poet and critic,
England, 1688-1744 Pope, Walter, physician and 581 882 writer England, 1630-1714 Popham, Sir John, Lord Chief Justice, 761 England, 1531(?)-1607 Porson, Richard, Greek scholar, 42 critic England, 1759-1808 Porter, Mrs. David 920 Porter, Henry, dramatist, 638 England, living 1599 Porter, Horace, general, 612 United States, 1837-1920 Porter, William ■ Sydney (O. Henry), journalist, story writer United States, 1862-1910
552
Pohteus, Beilby, bishop and writer of prose and verse. .England, 1731-1808 115 174 450 534 854 Posidippus (Poseidippos), 571 comic poet living B.C. 289 Potter, Henry Codman, Protestant 194 Episcopal bishop, United States, 1835-1908 Poujoulat, Jean-Joseph-Francois, 486 writer France, 1808-1880 Powell, Sir John, Judge.ENGLAND, 1633-1696
Power op Atherstone 560 Praed, Winthrop Mackworth, poet, writer of Vers de SoaUte, England, 1802-1839 23 66 157 217 486 508 631 664 732 778 829 Prayer op Persian Dervish. 598 Prentice, George Denison, poet, humorist, and journalist, United States, 1802-1870
797 854
Prentiss, Elizabeth Payson, author, 719 United States, 1818-1878 Pbeston, Harriet W., writer and 325 translator, United States, about 1843-1911 Preston, Margaret" J., poet, United States, 1825-1897
368 458 463 575
Prestwich, Edmund, poet and clas- _ 893 sical scholar . . .England, living in 1651 Peideaux, Humphrey, clergyman 644 and Oriental scholar, England, 1648-1724 Priestly, Dr. Joseph, philosopher, 198 theologian, and the discoverer of oxygen England, 1733-1804
- Prior, Matthew, poet and diplomatist England, 1664-1721
Procter, Adelaide Anne, poet, England, 1825-1864 450 498 539 582 704 735 747 751 806 Procter, Bryan Waller, "Barry Cornwall," poet and author, England, 1787-1874 215 347 378 439 566 574 598 622 694 764 793 875 888 Procter, Edna Dean, author, 210 United States, 1838-L. Proper New Ballad in Praise op 900 My Lady Marques. (1569) Propertitjs, Sextus, Roman elegiac poet Umbria, about B.C. 50
8 129 143 253 258 309 314
389 476 546 601 Protagoras, Greek sophist, philoso- 491 pher b.c. 490(?)-415(?) "Prout, Father," see Mahony, Francis. Proverbial Sayings Current in 854 Great War Proverbs or Manual of Wisdom. 648 Printed for Tabart & Co., London (1804) Prowse, W. J., poet England, 1836-1870
Prudentius, M. A. C, Spanish Roman, Christian poet, living in 348 411 751 Prud'homme (Sully), poet, 341 France, 1839-1907 Prudhon, Chas. F. J., comedian, 616 France, 1845-L. Pryde and Abuse of Women, (1550) 893 Prynne, William, Puritan controver- 415 sialist, jurist England, 1600-1669 Pseudo-Phocyl, 648 Pseudo-Sallust, name given to the 291 spurious Sallust Publius Mimus 312 Publilius Syrus, see Syrus, Publilius Pucci, Francesco, archdeacon, theo- 233 logical writer Italy, 1540-1583 Pulteney, William, statesman and 410 orator England, 1684-1764 Punch, London 493 498 Purcell, Daniel, punster and wit, 404 England, about 1660-1718 Purchas, Samuel, editor, collector, 140 traveler England, 1577-1626 PUTTENHAM, poet, 659 England, 1520(?)-1601(?) Pychowska, L. D. 353 Pyper, Mary, poet, 232 Scotland, 19th Cent. Pyrrhus, king of Epirus b.c. 318(?)-272
Pythagoras, philosopher and mathematician. .Greece, about b.c. 582-500 154 242 613 627 694
- Quarles, Francis, poet. England, 1592-1644
Querlon, Anne Gabriel M. de, jour- 293 nalist, satiric writer, France, 1702-1780
