Iron sleet of arrowy shower GRAY, The Fatal Sisters. The Parthian thus; his javelin backward throws, PASSING RICH. Passing rich with forty pounds a year. PAST WORK. To relief of lazars, and weak age, PATIENCE, She pin'd in thought; And, with a green and yellow melancholy, Ibid, Twelfth Night, act 2, scene 4. : "Tis hard but patience must endure, And soothe the woes it cannot cure. FRANCIS' Horace, ode 24, line 31. How poor are they that have not patience! PEACEFUL. Where peaceful seas, Fann'd by kind zephyrs, ever kiss the shore. THOMSON, Liberty, part 1. PELTING OF THE STORM. Poor naked wretches, wheresoe'er you are, PERDITION Perdition catch my soul But I do love thee! Ibid, Othello, act 3, scene 3. PERSEVERANCE. And all may do what has by man been done. YOUNG, Night 6, line 606. Hast thou begun an act? ne'er then give o'er; PHILIPPI. I will see thee at Philippi then. SHAKSPERE, Julius Cæsar, act 4, scene 3. 66 PIC-NIC. I'm going to invite her; I'll take her to a pic-nic entertainment. 'Symbola, was the name given to an entertainment, to which each of the guests contributed in money or kind; similar, in principle, to what we call a "pic-nic" party. 1 RILEY'S Plautus. The Stichus, act 3, sc. 1. PIERCING. Piercing the night's dull ear. SHAKSPERE, King Henry 5th, chorus to act 4. PIN A DISH-CLOUT TO HIS TAIL. PITY. What comfort, can a wretch, like me, bestow? GAY, Dione, act 2, sc. 2. Pity melts the mind to love. DRYDEN, Alexander's Feast. PIOUS FRAUD. When pious frauds and holy shifts, BUTLER, Hudibras, part 1, canto 3, line 1145. SMITH, Phædra and Hyppolitus, act 2. V See how the force of others' prayers I try, (Oh pious fraud of amorous charity!) POPE. Eloise to Abelard. The heath-hen flutters; pious fraud ! to lead It was the hour, when devotees, CHURCHILL. The Ghost, book 3. He shook his impious head, and thus replies, These legends are no more than pious lies, DRYDEN, Baucis and Philemon, book 8. Here a fond wife, with pious error, prest Some hostile Roman to her throbbing breast. Rowe's Lucan, book 3, line 1141. The doubtful name was used without deceit, His pious frauds conceal the name, PLEASED WITH A RATTLE. Behold the child, by nature's kindly law, Pleas'd with a rattle, tickled with a straw. POPE, Essay on Man, Epi. 2, s. 3. PLEBEIANISM. For vulgar parents cannot stamp their race, POCKET THE AFFRONT. Dry up thy tears, and pocket up th' abuse, And yet you will stand to it, you will not pocket up wrong. SHAKSPERE, King Henry 4th, part 1, act 3, sc. 3. POET. Widely extensive is the poet's aim, And in each verse he draws a bill on fame. LADY WINCHELSEA to Pope. POETICAL LICENCE. What trouble is it to refute these monstrous inventions of the poets and painters. YONGE'S Cicero, Tusculan Disp. book 1, div. 6. So HORACE, in his Art of Poetry, which Roscommon translates Painters and Poets have been still allow'd |