| Padlocks for the mouth | [533] |
| Pages in gentlemen's houses | [214] [Fn. 2] |
| Painter's part in a tragedy | [42] |
| Painting the art of of the face | [83], [129], [226], [555] [41] |
| Palmquist, Monsieur | [43] |
| Pamphilio, a good master | [137] |
| Pamphlets, defamatory | [541] |
| Pantheon Penkethman's at Rome | [31] [Fn. 3] [415] |
| Paradin, Guillaume | [98] [Fn. 3] |
| Paradise of Fools | [460] |
| Paradise Lost, Addison's papers on | [267], [273], [279], [285], [291], [297], [303], [309], [315], [321], [325], [327], [333], [339], [345], [354], [357], [363], [369] |
| Parents | [21], [150], [181], [189], [192], [235], [263], [313], [330], [449], [532], [539] |
| Parish clerks, advice to | [372] |
| Parker, Richard | [474] [Fn. 3] |
| Parnassus, Vision of | [514] |
| Parnell, Thomas | [460] [Fn. 1] |
| Parricide, how punished in China | [189] |
| Parthenia, letter of, upon the ladies' library | [140] |
| Party patches | [57], [125], [126], [243], [399], [432], [507] [81] |
| Particles, English | [18] |
| Pascal | [116] [Fn. 3] |
| Pasquinades | [23] [Fn. 5] |
| Passion of the fan | [202], [438], [528] [102] |
| Passions, the | [31], [71], [215], [224], [255], [408], [418], [564] |
| Pastorals, Philips's | [523] |
| Patches party use of | [50] [81] |
| Patience | [312], [501], [559] |
| Patrons | [214] |
| Paul Lorrain | [338] |
| Paul, Saint | [633] |
| Paul's Cathedral, St., Indian kings on | [50] |
| Peace negotiations | [45] [45] [Fn. 1] |
| Pearce, Zachary | [572] |
| Pedants | [105], [286], [617] |
| Pedigrees, vanity of | [612] |
| Peepers | [53] |
| Peevish fellow, a | [438] |
| Penkethman, W. | [31] [Fn. 3], [370] [Fn. 5] |
| Penruddock's rising in the West | [313] [Fn. 3] |
| Penseroso, Il | [425] |
| Pentathlum | [161] |
| People, the wealth of a country | [200] |
| Pericles | [81], [633] |
| Perrault, Charles | [279] [Fn. 11], [303] [Fn. 3] |
| Perry, Mrs. | [92] [Fn. 1] |
| Persecution, religious | [459] |
| Persian education soldier reproved | [99], [189], [337] [427] |
| Persius | [379] |
| Peter the Great compared with Louis XIV. | [43] [Fn. 2] [139] |
| Petronius his story of the Ephesian lady mood of, at death | [11] [Fn. 1] [349] |
| Petticoat politicians | [109], [127], [140] [305] |
| Petty, Sir William | [200] |
| Phædra and Hippolitus, a tragedy | [18] [Fn. 9] |
| Pharamond his edict against duelling letter to | [76] [Fn. 1], [84] [Fn. 1] [97] [480] |
| Phidias | [415] |
| Philanthropy | [177] |
| Philantia, a votary | [79] |
| Philips, Ambrose | [223] [Fn. 2], [229], [290] [Fn. 2], [338] [Fn. 2], [400], [523], [578] |
| Philopater on his daughter's dancing | [466] |
| Philosophers | [195], [634] |
| Philosophy | [7], [10], [22], [175], [201], [393], [420] |
| Phocion | [133], [188], [448] |
| Phœbe and Colin, a poem | [603] |
| Physic | [195] |
| Physicians | [16], [21], [25], [234] |
| Physiognomy | [86], [206], [518] |
| Pictures | [67], [83], [107], [109], [226], [244], [248], [416], [418] |
| Picts, what women are | [41] |
| Piety | [201] |
| Pindar | [160], [467] |
| Pindaric writing | [58] [Fn. 5] |
| Pin money | [295] |
| Piper of Hamelin, the | [5] |
| Pisistratus | [527] |
| Pitchpipe | [228] |
| Pittacus, a saying of | [574] |
| Pity | [208], [397], [418], [442], [588] |
| Pix, Mary | [51] [Fn. 8] |
| Places of trust | [469], [629] |
| Plain dealing | [460] |
| Planets | [420] |
| Planting | [583], [589] |
| Plato | [23] [Fn. 2], [86] [Fn. 12], [90], [183], [211] [Fn. 2], [237], [507], [624] |
| Platonic love | [400] |
| Players | [141], [370], [502], [529] |
| Plays, modern | [22], [592] |
| Pleaders | [197] |
| Pleasant fellows | [462] |
| Pleasure | [146], [151], [152], [183], [312], [424], [600], [624] |
| Pleasures of Imagination, Essays on | [411]-[421] |
| Pliny | [230], [467] [Fn. 1], [484] [Fn. 1], [525], [554] |
| Plot, Robert | [447] [Fn. 1] |
| Plutarch | [125] [Fn. 1], [180], [188], [229], [483], [494], [507] |
| Poacher, request from a | [168] |
| Poetry | [39], [40], [44], [51], [58], [220], [253], [314], [405], [417], [418], [419], [421] |
| Poetical justice | [40], [548] |
| Polite imaginations | [411] |
| Politeness | [119] |
| Political arithmetic | [200] |
| Politicians | [43], [305], [403], [556], [567], [568] |
| Poll, a way of arguing | [239] |
| Polycarpus, beloved by all | [280] |
| Pompey | [293] |
| Pontignon, M. | [90] |
| Poor, the | [200], [232] [Fn. 3], [430] |
| Pope, Alexander his Essay on Criticism an idea from commended his Pastorals his Messiah Letter and Verses on Adrian's dying words his Miscellany | [65] [Fn. 2] [210] [Fn. 1] [253] [Fn. 2] [223] [Fn. 2] [378] [527] [532] [523] |
| Popular applause | [188] |
| Porta, Baptista della, on Physiognomy | [86] [Fn. 6] |
| Posterity | [101], [583] |
| Postman, newspaper | [1] [Fn. 8] |
| Pottière, Dominic, a French privateer | [350] |
| Poverty | [150], [464] |
| Powell, junior, his Puppet-show | [14] [Fn. 2], [31] [Fn. 5], [372] |
| Powell, George, the actor | [31] [Fn. 4], [40] |
| Power, despotic | [287] |
| Praise | [38], [73], [188], [238], [349], [467], [551] |
| Prayer | [207], [236], [312], [391] |
| Precedence | [119], [529] |
| Précieuses, the | [45] Fns. [2] & [4] |
| Prediction, vulgar arts of | [505] |
| Preface to the Bishop of St. Asaph's Sermons | [384] |
| Prejudice | [101], [263], [432] |
| Prepossession | [117] |
| Prerogative | [480] |
| Presumption | [187] |
| Pride | [33], [201], [394], [462] |
| Prince, Mr., dances of | [466] |
| Princes, good and bad | [139] |
| Printing | [166], [367], [582] |
| Prior | [141] |
| Procrastination | [151] |
| Procrustes, bed of | [58] |
| Prodicus | [183] |
| Professions, the three learned | [21] |
| Projector of town entertainments, a | [31] |
| Promisers | [448] |
| Pronunciation | [451] |
| Prospects | [411], [412], [418] |
| Prosperity | [237] |
| Prosper, Will. | [19], [20] |
| Proverbs of Solomon, in verse | [410] |
| Providence | [120], [237], [293], [441], [543] |
| Prudence | [293] |
| Prudes at the play | [208] |
| Psalm xxiii. translated cxiv. cxxxix. singing in church | [441] [461] [399] [205] |
| Psalmanazar, George | [14] [Advertisement Fn. 1] |
| Pugg the Monkey, Adventures of | [343] |
| Pulvillios | [63] [Fn. 1] |
| Punchinello | [14] |
| Punishments in school | [157] |
| Puns | [61], [396], [454], [504] |
| Puppet-show, Powell's | [14] [Fn. 2] |
| Purcell, Henry | [29] [Fn. 3] |
| Puzzle, Tom, in argument | [476] |
| Pyramids of Egypt | [415] |
| Pyrrhus, King | [180] |
| Pythagoras | [447], [586] |
| Quacks | [444], [547] [Fn. 1], [572] |
| Quakers | [396] |
| Quality | [34], [219] |
| Queries in love | [625] |
| Quick, Mrs., of the Widows' Club | [561] |
| Quidnunc, Tom | [625] |
| Quillet, Claude | [23] [Fn. 4] |
| Quintilian | [168] |
| Quir, Peter de, on Puns | [396] |
| Quixote, Don, patron of Sigher's Club | [30] |
| Rabelais | [283] |
| Racine | [39] [Fn. 4] |
| Rack | [239] |
| Radcliffe, Dr. John | [468] [Fn. 4] |
| Raillery | [422] |
| Rainbow coffee-house | [415] [16] [Fn. 1] |
| Rakes | [336], [576] |
| Raleigh, Sir W. | [510] |
| Ramble from Richmond to the Exchange | [454] |
| Ramsey, Will., the astrologer, describes night | [582] |
| Rant | [40] |
| Rape of Proserpine, a French opera | [29] |
| Raphael | [226], [244], [467] |
| Rapin, Réné | [44] [Fn. 3], [291] [Fn. 2] |
| Rattling Club at church | [630] |
| Read, Sir Wm., oculist | [472], [547] [Fn. 1] |
| Readers | [1], [62], [93], [94], [179] |
| Reason | [6], [120], [408], [447] |
| Rebus | [59] |
| Rechteren, Count, and M. Ménager | [481] [Fn. 3] |
| Recitative | [29] |
| Reciters | [521] |
| Recluse, the | [282] |
| Recommendations, letters of, generally unjust and absurd | [493] |
| Recreations | [258] |
| Rehearsal, Buckingham's | [3] [Fn. 7] |
| Religion | [201], [213], [292], [356], [447], [459], [471], [483], [494], [574] |
| Renatus Valentinus, story of | [426] |
| Rentfree, Sabina, letter on greensickness | [431] |
| Repository for fashions | [487] |
| Reproach | [594] |
| Reproof | [382] |
| Reputation | [218], [467] |
| Retirement | [4], [27], [249], [425], [467], [549], [613] |
| Revelation | [600] |
| Reveries | [167] |
| Revenge of a Spanish lady | [611] |
| Rhubarb, John, Esq., from the Infirmary | [429] |
| Rhyme, the Æneid in | [60] |
| Rhynsault, story of | [491] |
| Rich, Christopher | [258] [Fn. 1] |
| Riches | [140], [145], [150], [280], [282], [283], [294], [456], [464], [574] |
| Richelieu, Cardinal | [305] |
| Ridicule | [150], [249], [445], [446] |
| Riding dress of ladies | [115] [435] |
| Rinaldo and Armida, opera of | [5] [Fn. 2], [14] |
| Riot | [180] |
| Rival Mother, story of the | [91] |
| Rivers, Colonel | [204] [Fn. 3] |
| Roarers | [474] |
| Robin the Porter at Will's Coffeehouse | [398] |
| Rochester, John Wilmot, Earl of | [2] [Fn. 3] |
| Roman ladies education understanding | [81] [313] [502] |
| Rope-dancing | [141] |
| Rosalinda a Whig partizan reformation of the handsome, to the Ugly Club | [81] [87] [87] |
| Rosamond, Clayton's opera of | [18] [Fn. 1] |
| Rosamond's Bower | [281] |
| Roscommon, Earl of | [44] [Fn. 4], [253] [Fn. 4] |
| Rose Tavern, the | [2] [Fn. 6] |
| Rosicrucius, story of sepulchre of | [379] |
| Royal Exchange neglected | [509] |
| Royal Progress, Tickell's poem of the | [620] |
| Royal Society | [121], [262] [Fn. 4] |
| Runnet, Mrs., of the Widows' club | [561] |
| Ruricola, his son and daughter | [192] |
| Rusticity | [400] |
| Rusty Scabbard, on the fighters at the Bear garden | [449] |
| Rycaut, Sir Paul | [343] |
| Rymer | [267] [Fn. 1] |