cious literary ability. Contrib. to Tonson's 'Poetical Miscellanies,' 1709; to Lintot's Miscellany,' 1712; to 'Spectator,' 1712; to 'Guardian,' 1713. Friendship with Addison begun, 1711. Rupture with Addison, and formation of friendship with Swift, 1713. Friendship with Lady Mary Wortley Montagu [q.v.], 171522; with Martha Blount, 1712-44. Contrib. to Steele's Poetical Miscellanies,' 1714. Active literary and social career. Removed to Twickenham, 1719; resided there till his death. Edited 'Grub Street Journal,' Jan. 1730 to Dec. 1737. Friendship with Arbuthnot, Gay, Bolingbroke, Warburton, etc. Events in life mainly literary or controversial. Died, at Twickenham, 30 May 1744. Buried in Twickenham Church. Works: Essay on Criticism' (anon.), 1711; 'Miscellanies' (with Swift; anon.), 1711; 'Ode for Music,' 1713; 'Windsor Forest,' 1713; Narrative of Dr. Robert Norris' (anon.), 1713; 'The Rape of the Lock' (from 'Lintot's Miscellany'), 1714; A Key to the Lock' (under (pseud., Esdras Barnivelt), 1715; 'The Temple of Fame,' 1715; To the Ingenious Mr. Moore,' 1716; A full and true Account of a horrid Revenge by Poison on the body of Mr. Edmund Curll' (anon), 1716; "The Worms,' 1716; 'A Roman Catholic version of the First Psalm,' 1716; Works,' 1717; Three Hours after Marriage' (with Gay and Arbuthnot), 1717; 'A Complete Key to the Non-Juror' (anon.), 1718; 'Eloisa to Abelard,' 1720; Miscellanea,' 1727 [1726]; 'Several Copies of Verses on occasion of Mr. Gulliver's Travels (anon.), 1727; 'Miscellanies' (with Swift), vols. i., ii., 1727; vol. iii., 1728; vol. iv., 1732; The Dunciad,' 1728 (4th edn. same year); 'Of False Taste,' 1731; Of the Use of Riches,' 1732; 'Esther' (oratorio libretto; written with Arbuthnot), [1732?]; An Essay on Man' (anon.), pt. i.-iii., 1733; pt. iv., 1734; Of the Knowledge and Characters of Men,' 1733; 'Sober Advice from Horace to the Young Gentlemen about Town' (anon.), [1734]; 'Epistle to Dr. Arbuthnot,' 1735; 'Of the Characters of Women,' 1735; Ethic Epistles, Satires, etc.,' 1735; Letters of Mr. Pope and several Eminent Persons' (2 vols.), 1735; The Impertinent,' 1737; 'One Thousand Seven Hundred and ThirtyEight,' 1738; 'The Universal Prayer' (anon.), 1738; 'Poems, and Imitations of Horace,' 1738; 'The Trial of Mr. Whiston (anon.), 1740; 'Memoirs of Martinus Scrib lerus' (with Arbuthnot), 1741. Posthumous: 'The Character of Katharine, late Duchess of Buckinghamshire,' 1746; 'Verses upon the late D- -ss of M(anon.), 1746; Supplement to the Works of Alexander Pope,' 1757; Additions,' 1776; 'Supplemental Volume,' 1825. and He translated: Statius' 'Thebais,' bk. i., 1712; Homer's Iliad' (6 vols.), 1715-20; Homer's Odyssey' (5 vols.), 1725-26; various Satires and Epistles of Horace, 1733, 34, 37, 38; edited: T. Parnell's 'Poems on Several Occasions,' 1722; Shakespeare's 'Dramatic Works,' 1725; Chaucer's 'Canterbury Tales turn'd into modern Language,' 1737; 'Selecta Poemata Italorum qui Latine scripserunt,' 1740. Collected Works: in 10 vols. (with life), ed. by Rev. W. Elwin and W. J. Courthope, 1871-89. PORSON (Richard), 1759 - 1808. Born, at East Ruston, Norfolk, 25 Dec. 1759. Early education at village schools, and by the curate of the parish. At Eton, Aug. 1774 to 1778. To Trin. Coll., Camb., Oct. 1778; Scholar, 1780; Craven Scholar, 1781; B. A., 1782; Chancellor's Prize Medal, 1782; Fellow of Trin. Coll., 1782; M.A., 1785. Obliged to give up Fellowship, owing to his not having taken holy orders, July 1792. Annuity purchased for him by his friends. Settled in rooms in the Temple, 1792. Regius Prof. of Greek, Cambridge, Nov. 1792. Continued to reside in London. Pursued classical studies. PORTER-PRAED Contrib. to 'Maty's Review,' 'Gentleman's Mag.,' 'Monthly Review,' 'Morning Chronicle,' etc. Married Mrs. Lunan, Nov. 1796; she died, 12 April 1797. Principal Librarian of newly-founded London Institution, April 1806. Died, in London, 25 Sept. 1808. Buried in chapel of Trin. Coll., Cambridge. 231 a dier's Friendship and a Soldier's Love,' 1805; 'The Hungarian Brothers,' 1807; 'Don Sebastian,' 1809 'Ballad Romances, and other Poems,' 1811; The Recluse of Norway,' 1814; The Knight of St. John,' 1817; 'The Fast of St. Magdalen,' 1818; 'The Village of Mariendorpt,' 1821; 'Roche-Blanche,' 1822; 'Honor Works: Letters to Mr. Arch- O'Hara,' 1826; "Tales Round deacon Travis' (from 'Gentleman's Winter Hearth' (with Jane Porter), Mag.'), 1790; Edition of Toup's 1826; Coming Out' (with The 'Emendationes in Suidam,' 1790; Field of the Forty Footsteps' by Edition (anon.) of Eschylus, 1794; Jane Porter), 1828; The Barony,' Editions of Euripides' 'Hecuba,' 1797, | 1830. 'Orestes,' 1798, 'Phœnissæ,' 1799, and Medea,' 1801; Edition of Homer's 'Iliad' and Odyssey (with Grenville and others), 1800. Posthumous: 'Ricardi Porsoni Adversaria,' ed. by J. H. Monk and C. J. Blomfield, 1812; Tracts and Miscellaneous Criticisms,' ed. by T. Kidd, 1815; 'Aristophanica,' ed. by P. P. Dobree, 1820; Edition of the 'Lexicon of Photius,' ed. by P. P. Dobree (2 vols.), 1822; 'The Devil's Walk,' ed. by H. W. Montagu [1830]; Correspondence,' ed. by H. R. Luard, 1867. PORTER (Anna Maria), 1780-1832. Born, at Durham, 1780. Educated at Edinburgh. Commenced literary career at early age. Part editor (with her sister Jane [q.v.] and T. F. Dibdin) of 'The Quiz,' 1797. To London, with her mother and sister, 1802. Play, The Fair Fugitives,' produced at Covent Garden, May 1803. Lived for some time with her mother and sister at Esher. Returned with her sister to London on their mother's death, 1831. Visit to her brother at Bristol, May 1832. Died, at Montpellier, near Bristol, 21 Sept. 1832. Buried in St. Paul's Churchyard, Bristol. Works: Artless Tales' (2 vols. ; anon.), 1795; 'Tales of Pity' [1795?]; "Walsh Colville' (anon.), 1797; 'Original Poems' (anon.) [1798 ?]; 'Octavia' (anon.), 1798; The Lake of Killarney,' 1804 (later edn. called: 'Rose de Blaquière,' 1856); ‘A Sol PORTER (Jane), 1776-1850. [Sister of preceding.] Born, at Durham, 1776. Educated at Edinburgh. Part editor (with her sister and T. F. Dibdin) of 'The Quiz,' 1797. Created 'Lady of Chapter of St. Joachim' by the King of Würtemberg after the success of her novel, Thaddeus of Warsaw.' Tragedy 'Switzerland performed at Drury Lane, 5 Feb. 1819; Owen, Prince of Powys,' Drury Lane, 28 Jan. 1822. Lived for some time with her mother and sister at Esher. Returned to London with her sister, 1831. Visit to her brother at St. Petersburg, 1842. Grant from Literary Fund, Nov. 1842. Contrib. to 'Gentleman's Mag.,' 'Amulet,' Died, at and other periodicals. Bristol, 24 May 1850. Works: 'Thaddeus of Warsaw,' 1803; A Sketch of the Campaigns of Count A. Suwarrow Rymnikski' (anon.), 1804; The Scottish Chiefs,' 1810; The Pastor's Fireside,' 1815; 'Duke Christian of Luneburg,' 1824 'Tales Round a Winter Hearth (with A. M. Porter), 1826; 'The Field of the Forty Footsteps' (with A. M. Porter's Coming Out '), 1828; Sir Edward Seaward's Narrative of his Shipwreck,' 1831. She edited: 'Young Hearts. By a Recluse,' 1834. PRAED (Winthrop Mackworth), 1802-1839. Born, in London, 26 July 1802. At school at Langley Broom, 1810-14; at Eton, March 1814 to | 1821. Edited The Etonian,' with literary career. Corresponding Mem. of French Academy, Feb. 1845. Corresponding Mem., Royal Soc. of Berlin, Feb. 1845. Visit to England, 1850. Died, in Boston, 28 Jan. 1859. Buried in St. Paul's Church, Boston. W. Blunt, 1821. To Trin. Coll., | In Boston, winter 1817-1818. Married Camb., Oct. 1821; Browne Medallistsan Amory, 4 May 1820. Adopted for Greek Ode, 1822 and 1823; for Greek Epigrams, 1822 and 1824; Chancellor's Medal for English Poem, 1823 and 1824; B.A., 1825. Contrib. to Knight's 'Quarterly Mag,' 1822. Part editor of The Brazen Head,' 1826. At Eton, as private tutor to Lord Ernest Bruce, 1825-27. Fellow, Trin. Coll., Camb., 1827; Seatonian prize poem, 1830. Called to Bar at Middle Temple, 29 May 1829. Contrib. to Times,' Morning Post,' 'Albion,' etc. M.P. for St. Germans, by purchasing seat, Dec. 1832; constituency disfranchised same year by Reform Bill. M.P. for Great Yarmouth, 1834-37. Sec. to Board of Control, Dec. 1834 to April 1835. Married Helen Bogle, 1835. M.P. for Aylesbury, 1837. Deputy High Steward to Univ. of Cambridge. Died, in London, 15 July 1839. Buried at Kensal Green. 1833. Collected Works: Poetical Works,' ed. by R. W. Griswold (New York), 1844; ed. by Derwent Coleridge, revised edn. (2 vols.), 1885; Essays, ed. by Sir G. Young, 1887; 'Political and Occasional Poems,' ed. by Sir G. Young, 1888. PRESCOTT (William Hickling), 1796-1859. Born, at Salem, Mass., 4 May 1796. Early education at Salem. At school in New York, Jan. 1803 to June 1808. Parents removed to Boston, 1808. To Harvard Coll., Aug. 1811; B.A., 1814. While at Harvard lost the sight of one eye through an accident; the other soon afterwards became seriously and permanently affected. At St. Michael's, Azores, for health, Oct. 1815 to April 1816 Travelled in Europe, 1816-17. | Works: Life of Charles Brockden Brown,' 1834; History of the Reign of Ferdinand and Isabella' (3 vols.), 1838; History of the Conquest of Mexico' (3 vols.), 1843; Critical and Historical Essays,' 1845; 'History of the Conquest of Peru' (2 vols.), 1847; Memoir of . . . J. Pickering,' 1848; The History of the Reign of Philip II.,' vols. i., ii., 1855; vol. iii., 1858; Memoir of the Hon. A. Lawrence' (priv. ptd.), 1856; 'The Life of Charles V. after his Abdica tion' (vol. iii. of Robertson's Hist. He edited: Mme. Calderon de la PROCTER-PRYNNE Ballad' (anon.), 1695; • Verses on the death of Queen Mary,' 1695; 'Carmen Seculare for the year 1700' (anon.), 1700; 'Letter to Monsieur Boileau Despréaux' (anon.), 1704; 'An Ode .. to the Queen' (anon.), 1706; Pallas and Venus' (anon.), 1706; Poems,' 1707 (unauthorised); 'Poems,' 1709; A Fable of the Widow and her Cat' (with Swift), 1711; 'Poems,' 1716 (unauthorised); 'The Dove' (anon.), 1717; 'Poems,' 1718; 'The Conversation' (anon.), 1720; 'The Curious Maid' (anon.), 1720. 6 PROCTER (Bryan Waller). 1787. 1874. [Father of preceding.] Born, at Leeds, 21 Nov. 1787. At Harrow, Feb. 1801 to 1804 [?]. Articled to a Solicitor at Calne, 1804 [?]-07. To London, 1807. Practised as solicitor. Contrib. to 'Literary Gaz.,' from 1815; to London Mag.,' from 1820. Friendship with Leigh Hunt and Charles Lamb. Tragedy Mirandola' produced at Covent Garden, Jan. 1821. Married Anne Skepper, 1824. Commissioner in Lunacy, 183261. Died, in London, 5 Oct. 1874. 233 Works: Dramatic Scenes, and other poems' (under pseud. 'Barry Cornwall'), 1819; Marcian Colonna' (by Barry Cornwall'), 1820; ‘A Sicilian Story' (by Barry Cornwall'), 1820 (2nd edn. same year); Mirandola' (by Barry Cornwall'), 1821 (2nd edn. same year); 'Poetical Works of Barry Cornwall' (3 vols.), 1822; The Flood of Thessaly' (by 'Barry Cornwall '), 1823; 'Effigies Poetica' (anon.), 1824; English Songs' (by 'Barry Cornwall '), 1832; The Sea, The Sea' (anon.), 1834; 'Life of Edmund Kean' (anon.), 1835; Essays and Tales in Prose' (2 vols., Boston), 1853; Charles Lamb' (by Barry Cornwall '), 1866. Posthumous : Autobiographical Fragment,' ed. by Coventry Patmore, 1877. He edited Ben Jonson's Works, 1838; Shakespeare's Works, 1843; 'Selections from Browning' (with J. Foster), 1863; Lamb's Essays of Elia,' 1879. PRYNNE (William), 1600-1669. Born, at Swanswick, Somersetshire, 1600. Early education at Bath Grammar School. Matric. Oriel Coll., Oxford, 24 April 1618; B.A., 22 Jan. 1621. Student of Lincoln's Inn, 1621; called to Bar, 1628. Consigned to Tower on a charge of treason, 1 Feb. 1633; sentenced, 17 Feb. 1634, to fine and imprisonment for life. Expelled from Lincoln's Inn; deprived of Oxford degree, 29 April 1634; pilloried, 7 May and 10 May 1634. Sentenced again to increased fine, 14 June 1637. Pilloried, 30 June 1637. Imprisoned in Carnarvon Castle, July 1637; afterwards in Mount Orgueil Castle, Jersey. Released, restored to degree and legal position, and pecuniarily compensated, Nov. 1640. Espoused Parliamentary cause in Civil War. Prolific pamphleteer on political and theological subjects. Mem. of Committee of Accounts, Feb. 1644. Commissioner for visitation of city of Oxford, May 1647. M.P. for Newport, Nov. 1648. Arrested on political charge, Dec. 1648; released, Jan. 1649. Im 234 PURCHAS-QUARLES prisoned again, 30 June 1650 to 18 Feb. 1653. Took his seat in Long Parliament, 1659-60. M.P. for Bath, 1660 and 1661. Keeper of the Tower Records, 1660. Unmarried. Died, in Lincoln's Inn, 24 Oct. 1669. Buried there. Works: [A full list of Prynne's Works, which number upwards of 200, are given by J. Bruce in the Camden Society's Documents relating to the Proceedings against William Prynne,' 1877. The most important are :] 'Histrio-Mastix,' 1633; 'The Sovereign Power of Parliaments,' 1643; 'The Opening of the Great Seal of England,' 1643; Hidden Works of Darkness brought to Public Light,' 1645; Canterbury's Doom,' 1646; A Plea for the House of Lords,' 1648; The First Part of an Historical Collection of the Ancient Councils and Parliaments of England,' 1649; 'A Short Demurrer to the Jews' long. discontinued Remitter into England,' 1656; A Brief Register of the several kinds of Parliamentary Writs' (4 pts.), 1659-64; 'The Signal Loyalty and Devotion of God's true Saints towards their Kings,' 1660; 'An Exact Chronological Vindication of our King's Supreme Ecclesiastical Jurisdiction' (3 vols.), 1665-70; 'Aurum Reginæ,' 1668; 'Brief Animadversions on the Fourth Part of the Institutes of the Laws of England compiled by Sir Edward Coke,' 1669. Posthumous: An Exact Abridgment of the Records in the Tower of London,' 1689. PURCHAS (Samuel), 1575[?]-1626. Born, in Essex, 1575 [?]. Educated at St. John's Coll., Camb. Ordained 1614. Curate of Purleigh, Essex, 1600 [?]. Married Jane Lease, Dec. 1601. Vicar of Eastwood, Essex, 1604-13. Chaplain to Archbishop of Canterbury, Rector of St. Martin's, Ludgate, 1614-26. Died, Sept. [?] 1626. Works Purchas his Pilgrimage,' 1613; Purchas his Pilgrim: Microcosmus, etc.,' 1619; Hakluytus Posthumus, or Purchas his Pilgrimes,' 1625. · PYE (Henry James), 1745-1813. Born, in London, 20 Feb. 1745. Early education at home. Matric. Magdalen Coll., Oxford, 12 July 1762; created M.A., 3 July 1766. Married (i.) Mary Hook, 1766. Created D.C.L., Oxford, 9 July 1773. M.P. for Berkshire, 1784-90. Appointed Poet Laureate, 1790. Police Magistrate for Westminster, 1792. Play The Siege of Meaux' produced at Covent Garden, 19 May 1794; Adelaide,' Drury Lane, 25 Jan. 1800; 'A Prior Claim' (written with S. J. Arnold), Drury Lane, 29 Oct. 1805. Wife died, 1796. Married (ii.) Martha Corbett, Nov. 1801. Died, at Pinner, 11 Aug. 1813. Works: The Rosciad of Covent Garden' (anon. ; attrib. to Pye), 1762; Beauty' (anon.), 1766; Elegies (anon.), 1768; The Triumph of Fashion' (anon.), 1771; Farringdon Hill' (anon.), 1774; The Progress of Refinement,' 1783; 'Shooting' (anon.), 1784; Aeriphorion,' 1784; Poems (collected), 1787; 'Amusement,' 1790; 'The Siege of Meaux,' 1794; "The Democrat' (anon.), 1795; 'War Elegies of Tyrtæus imitated,' 1795 ⚫ Sketches on Various Subjects (anon.), 1796; Naucratia,' 1798; "The Inquisitor' (with J. P. Andrews), 1798; "The Aristocrat' (anon.), 1799 'Carmen Seculare,' 1800; Adelaide,' 1800; Alfred,' 1801; 'Verses on Several Subjects,' 1802; 'A Prior Claim' (with S. J. Arnold), 1805; 'Comments on the Commentators of Shakespeare,' 1807; Summary of the Duties of a Justice of the Peace out of Sessions,' 1808. He translated: 'Six Olympic Odes of Pindar,' 1775; Aristotle's Poetics,' 1788; Bürger's 'Lenore,' 1796 Homer's Hymns and Epigrams,' 1810; and edited Francis's translation of the Odes of Horace, 1812. QUARLES (Francis), 1592-1644. Born, at Romford, Essex, 1592; baptized, 8 May. Educated at a school in Essex, and at Christ's Coll., Camb. B. A., 1608. Studied law for a short time at Lincoln's Inn. To Germany, |