'The conversation overflowed and drowned him,' ii. 122.
OWL. 'Placing a timid boy at a public school is forcing an owl
upon day,' iv. 312.
P.
PACKHORSE. 'A carrier who has driven a packhorse,' &c., v. 395.
PACKTHREAD. 'When I take up the end of a web, and find it packthread,
I do not expect, by looking further, to find embroidery,' ii. 88.
PACTOLUS. 'Sir, had you been dipt in Pactolus, I should not have
noticed you,' iv. 320.
PAIN. 'He who makes a beast of himself gets rid of the pain of being
a man,' ii. 435, n. 7.
PAINTED. 'Hailes's _Annals of Scotland_ have not that painted form
which is the taste of this age,' iii. 58.
PAINTING. 'Painting, Sir, can illustrate, but cannot inform,' iv. 321.
PALACES. 'We are not to blow up half a dozen palaces because one
cottage is burning,' ii. 90.
PAMPER. 'No, no, Sir; we must not _pamper_ them,' iv. 133.
PANT. 'Prosaical rogues! next time I write, I'll make both time and
space pant,' iv. 25.
PARADOX. 'No, Sir, you are not to talk such paradox,' ii. 73.
PARCEL. 'We are not here to sell a parcel of boilers and vats, but
the potentiality of growing rich beyond the dreams of avarice'
(Lord Lucan's anecdote of Johnson), iv. 87.
PARENTS. 'Parents not in any other respect to be numbered with robbers
and assassins,' &c., iii. 377, n. 3.
PARNASSUS. See CRITICISM.
PARSIMONY. 'He has the crime of prodigality and the wretchedness
of parsimony,' iii.
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