PERSONAL CHARACTER differs from the literary one, 217-226.
PETRARCH'S remarkable conversation on his melancholy, 68;
his mode of life, 114.
POPE, his anxiety over his Homer, 81;
severity of his early studies, 147.
POUSSIN fears trading in art, 193.
POVERTY of literary men, 186; sometimes a choice, 188-190.
PRACTICAL KNOWLEDGE of life wanting in studious men, 183-185.
PRAYERS of great men, 146.
PRECIEUSES, 315-318.
PREDISPOSITION of the mind, 118.
PREFACES, their interest, 286; their occasional falsehood, 287; vanity of authors in, 288; idle apologies in, 289; Dryden's interesting, 290.