=Primrose.=

A primrose by a river's brim A yellow primrose was to him, And it was nothing more.

1381 WORDSWORTH: _Peter Bell,_ Pt. i., St. 12.

=Printing.=

Blest be the gracious Power, who taught mankind To stamp a lasting image of the mind!

1382 CRABBE: _The Library,_ Line 69.

Some said, "John, print it"; others said, "Not so."

Some said, "It might do good"; others said, "No."

1383 BUNYAN: _Pilgrim's Progress, Apology for his Book._

=Prison.=

Stone walls do not a prison make, Nor iron bars a cage; Minds innocent and quiet, take That for an hermitage.

1384 LOVELACE: _To Althea, from Prison,_ iv.

=Procrastination.=

Procrastination is the thief of time: Year after year it steals, till all are fled, And to the mercies of a moment leaves The vast concerns of an eternal scene.

1385 YOUNG: _Night Thoughts,_ Night i., Line 393.

=Prodigies.=

When these prodigies Do so conjointly meet, let not men say "These are their reasons,--They are natural;"

For, I believe, they are portentous things Unto the climate that they point upon.

1386 SHAKS.: _Jul. Caesar,_ Act i., Sc. 3.

=Progress.=

Yet I doubt not thro' the ages one increasing purpose runs, And the thoughts of men are widen'd with the process of the suns.

1387 TENNYSON: _Locksley Hall,_ St. 69.

=Promise.=

And be these juggling fiends no more believ'd, That palter with us in a double sense: That keep the word of promise to our ear And break it to our hope.

1388 SHAKS.: _Macbeth,_ Act v., Sc. 8.

=Proof.=

Give me the ocular proof; * * * * *

Make me to see 't; or, at the least, so prove it, That the probation bear no hinge, nor loop, To hang a doubt on.

1389 SHAKS.: _Othello,_ Act iii., Sc. 3.

=Prophecy.=

Coming events cast their shadows before.

1390 CAMPBELL: _Lochiel's Warning._

Be thou the rainbow to the storms of life, The evening beam that smiles the cloud away, And tints to-morrow with prophetic ray!

1391 BYRON: _Bride of Ab.,_ Canto ii., St. 20.

=Prose.=

And he whose fustian's so sublimely bad, It is not poetry, but prose run mad.

1392 POPE: _Prol. to Satires,_ Line 186.

And Sidney, warbler of poetic prose.

1393 COWPER: _Task,_ Bk. iv., Line 514.

=Proselytes.=

The greatest saints and sinners have been made Of proselytes of one another's trade.

1394 BUTLER: _Misc. Thoughts,_ Line 315.

=Prospects.=

As distant prospects please us, but when near We find but desert rocks and fleeting air.

1395 SAMUEL GARTH: _Dispensatory,_ Canto iii., Line 27.

=Prosperity.=

Prosperity's the very bond of love; Whose fresh complexion, and whose heart together Affliction alters.

1396 SHAKS.: _Wint. Tale,_ Act iv., Sc. 3.

Surer to prosper than prosperity Could have assured us.

1397 MILTON: _Par. Lost,_ Bk. ii., Line 39.

=Providence.=

There's a special providence in the fall of a sparrow.

1398 SHAKS.: _Hamlet,_ Act v., Sc. 2.

What in me is dark Illumine, what is low raise and support; That, to the height of this great argument, I may assert Eternal Providence And justify the ways of God to men.

1399 MILTON: _Par. Lost,_ Bk. i., Line 22.