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The Poetry of the Gentleman’s Magazine, 1731 – 1800:
An Electronic Database of Titles, Authors, and First Lines
– An Ongoing Project –

Emily Lorraine de Montluzin


Pindar (Greek lyric poet; ca. 522-443 B.C.).  66-i (1796): 328; 67-i (1797): 512; 69-ii (1799): 559n.

Piozzi, Hester Lynch [formerly Hester Lynch Thrale] (friend of Samuel Johnson; 1741-1821).  33 (1763): 459; 49 (1779): 368; 51 (1781): 134 [?]; 56-ii (1786): 699 (2); 57-i (1787): 257, 258; 60-i (1790): 73; 61-i (1791): 4; 66-i (1796): 237-238.

Pitt, Rev. Christopher (poet; 1699-1748).  9 (1739): 39; 16 (1746): 37; 22 (1752): 136-137; 43 (1773): 93, 94; 45 (1775): 193; 46 (1776): 135; 49 (1779): 261; 65-ii (1795): 806.

Pitt, Rev. Robert (clergyman; 1693-1730).  45 (1775): 193.

Plumptre, Dr. Huntingdon (physician and poet; bapt. 1601/2; d. 1660).  69-ii (1799): 924-925.

Polignac, Melchior de (author of the Anti-Lucretius; 1661-1742).  18 (1748): 218-219; 23 (1753): 386, 438, 486, 532.

Polwhele, Rev. Richard (historian of Devon and Cornwall; 1760-1838).  57-i (1787): 438-439; 57-ii (1787): 717, 718-719, 1108; 58-i (1788): 250; 61-ii (1791): 1222; 65-i (1795): 455; 65-ii (1795): 600; 66-i (1796): 368.

Pope, Alexander (poet; 1688-1744).  1 (1731): 163, 306; 3 (1733): 96 (2), 150 (2), 205, 319; 4 (1734): 43, 96, 97-98, 157 [misnumbered as 751], 212-213, 325, 382, 442-443 [2nd 442-2nd 443], 501, 561, 619, 694 (2), 747; 5 (1735): 41, 45, 95, 154, 253 [2nd 253]; 6 (1736): 286, 348, 548; 8 (1738): 377; 9 (1739): 44, 322, 323 (2), 490; 10 (1740): 138; 11 (1741): 45, 548 [2nd 548], 604, 660; 12 (1742): 100, 102; 13 (1743): 321, 490; 550; 14 (1744): 611; 15 (1745): 164; 16 (1746): 104, 158; 17 (1747): 444; 18 (1748): 210; 19 (1749): 392; 22 (1752): 184-185, 468, 469; 23 (1753): 242; 24 (1754): 431, 560 [?]; 27 (1757): 277; 29 (1759): 382; 30 (1760): 289; 43 (1773): 244; 47 (1777): 464n; 57-i (1787): 351; 59-i (1789): 182; 61-ii (1791): 892; 66-i (1796): 6; 68-i (1798): 391 [misnumbered as 2nd 383]; 69-i (1799): 123, 124 (2), 452 (2); 69-ii (1799): 841; 70-ii (1800): 1123.

Porson, Richard (Greek scholar; 1759-1808).  56-ii (1786): 789.

Portal, Abraham (dramatist; fl. 1758-96).  33 (1763): 457.

Porter, -----.  14 (1744): 44 [?].

Potter, Rev. Robert (translator of Æschylus, Euripides, and Sophocles; 1721-1804).  69-ii (1799): 1026.

Powys, Rev. Thomas, Dean of Bristol and later of Canterbury (divine; ca. 1737-1809).  37 (1767): 137.

Poynton, Thomas (described as “a Pauper”).  53-ii (1783): 607.

Pratt, Samuel Jackson (miscellaneous writer; 1749-1814).  55-i (1785): 136, 386-387; 55-ii (1785): 820-821, 821, 909, 992; 56-ii (1786): 604, 983; 57-ii (1787): 1106; 59-i (1789): 556; 59-ii (1789): 1036-1037; 61-ii (1791): 1044; 66-i (1796): 240.

Preston, William.  51 (1781): 434-435, 481-482.

Price, Henry, of Poole (land-waiter).  8 (1738): 651; 11 (1741): 601; 40 (1770): 386 (2).

Prince, John Henry (Methodist minister and miscellaneous writer; b. 1770; d. in or after 1818).  69-ii (1799): 693.

Prior, Matthew (poet and diplomat; 1664-1721).  4 (1734): 500; 14 (1744): 503; 15 (1745): 217; 16 (1746): 699; 17 (1747): 290; 18 (1748): 181; 44 (1774): 16; 54-ii (1784): 596.

Prior, Rev. Edward (clergyman; b. ca. 1699).  49 (1779): 250-251.