Chapter Pilot that Weathered the Storm to Piper of P by Brewer's Readers Handbook

(Garrick altered Wycherly’s comedy to The Country Girl.)

Pindar (Peter), the pseudonym of Dr. John Walcot (1738–1819).

Pindar, the Theban poet, whose lyrics in irregular verse have furnished the word “pindaric” (B.C. 518- 442).

The British Pindar, Thomas Gray (1716–1771). On his monument in Westminster Abbey is inscribed these lines—

No more the Grecian muse unrivalled reigns;
To Britain let the nations homage pay:
She felt a Homer’s fire in Milton’s strains,
A Pindar’s rapture in the lyre of Gray.
   —Pindar, (I) Jean Dorat (1507–1588); (2) Ponce Denis Lebrun (1729–1807).

The Italian Pindar, Gabriello Chiabrera (1552–1637).

Pindar of England (The). Cowley was preposterously called by the duke of Buckingham, “The Pindar, Horace, and Virgil of England.” Posterity has not endorsed this absurd eulogium (1618–1667).

Pinder of Wakefield (The), George-a-Green, pinner of the town of Wakefield, that is, keeper of the public pound for the confinement of estrays.—The History of George-a-Green, Pinder of the Town of Wakefield (time, Elizabeth).

Pindorus and Arideus, the two heralds of the Christian army in the siege of Jerusalem.—Tasso: Jerusalem Delivered (1575).

Pine-Bender (The), Sinis, the Corinthian robber, who used to fasten his victims to two pine trees bent towards the earth, and leave them to be torn to pieces by the rebound.

Pinkerton (Miss), a most majestic lady, tall as a grenadier, and most proper. Miss Pinkerton kept an academy for young ladies on Chiswick Mall. She was “the Semiramis of Hammersmith, the friend of Dr. Johnson, and the correspondent of Mrs. Chapone.” This very distinguished lady “had a Roman nose, and wore a solemn turban.” Amelia Sedley was educated at her academy, and Rebecca Sharp was a pupil teacher there.—Thackeray: Vanity Fair, i. (1848).

Pinnit (Orson), keeper of the bears.—Sir W. Scott: Kenilworth (time, Elizabeth).

Pinto (Ferdinand Mendez), a Portuguese traveller, whose “voyages” were at one time wholly discredited, but have since been verified (1509–1583).

Ferdinand Mendez Pinto was but a type of thee, thou liar of the first magnitude.—Congreve: Love for Love (1695).

Pious (The), Ernst I. founder of the house of Gotha (1601–1674).

Robert, son of Hugues Capet (971, 996-1031).

Eric IX. of Sweden (*, 1155–1161).

Pip, the hero of Dickens’s novel called Great Expectations. His family name was Pirrip, and his Christian name Philip. He was enriched by a convict named Abel Magwitch; and was brought up by Joe Gargery a blacksmith, whose wife was a woman of thunder and lightning, storm and tempest. Magwitch, having made his escape to Australia, became a sheep farmer, grew very rich, and deposited £500 a year with Mr. Jaggers, a lawyer, for the education of Pip and to make a gentleman of him. Magwitch returned to England, was captured, and died in jail. All his property being confiscated, Pip was reduced to poverty,