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Parr, Dr., oddities of, 435

-- -- the Prince of Wales, and Duke of Sussex, 442

-- -- on the Shakespeare forgeries, 440

-- -- and Sir W. Jones, 436

-- -- his smoking, 440

-- -- his Spital sermon, 444

Parsimony of J. C. Neild, 99

-- of Lord Kenyon, 77

"Paul Pry," origin of, 372

Pembroke, Lord, his port wine, 540

Perpetual-motion seeker, 513

Peter Pindar, Dr. Wolcot, 460

-- -- Giffard, and Wright, 466

-- -- and Nollekens, 465

-- -- outwits a publisher, 466

-- -- death and burial of, 470

-- Pindar's attacks on Geo. III., 464

-- -- lines on Dr. Johnson, 465

-- -- satires, 464

Petersham, Lord, Capt. Gronow's account of, 55

-- coat, snuff and snuff-boxes, and equipages, 56

Pitt, Thomas, cheapening his coffin, 162

Poetical Sketches, by W. Blake, 340

Poole, John, his Paul Pry, 372

"Poor Man of Mutton" and the Earl of B., 76

Pope's lines on Ward, the miser, 74

Porson at Cambridge, 430

-- at the cider cellar, 428

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