_Pam´ela_ [ANDREWS], a simple, unsophisticated country girl, the daughter of two aged parents, and maid-servant of a rich young squire, called B, who tries to seduce her. She resists every temptation, and at length marries the young squire, and reforms him. Pamela is very pure and modest, bears her afflictions with much meekness, and is a model of maidenly prudence and rectitude. The story is told in a series of letters which Pamela sends to her parents.--S. Richardson, _Pamela_, or _Virtue Rewarded_ (1740). The pure and modest character of the English maiden [_Pamela_] is so well maintained, ... her sorrows and afflictions are borne with so much meekness; her little intervals of hope ... break in on her troubles so much like the specks of blue sky through a cloudy atmosphere--that the whole recollection is soothing, tranquilizing, and doubtless edifying.--Sir W. Scott. _Pamela_ is a work of much humbler pretensions than _Clarissa Harlowe_.... A simple country girl whom her master attempts to seduce, and afterwards marries.... The wardrobe of poor Pamela, her gown of sad-colored stuff, and her round-eared caps; her various attempts at escape, and the conveyance of her letters; the hateful character of Mrs. Jewkes, and the fluctuating passions of her master before the better part of his nature obtains ascendancy--these are all touched with the hand of a master.--Chambers, _English Literature_, ii. 161. =Pamina and Tam´ino=, the two lovers who were guided by “the magic flute” through all worldly dangers to the knowledge of divine truth (or the mysteries of Iris).--Mosart,[TN-61] _Die Zauberflöte_ (1790). =Pamphlet= (_Mr._), a penny-a-liner. His great wish was “to be taken up for sedition.” He writes on both sides, for as he says, he has “two hands, _ambo dexter_.” “Time has been,” he says, “when I could turn a penny by an earthquake, or live upon a jail distemper, or dine upon a bloody murder; but now that’s all over--nothing will do now but roasting a minister, or telling the people they are ruined. The people of England are never so happy as when you tell them they are ruined.”--Murphy, _The Upholsterer_, ii. 1 (1758). =Pan=, Nature personified, especially the vital crescent power of nature. Universal Pan. Knit with the Graces and the Hours in dance, Led on the eternal spring. Milton, _Paradise Lost_, iv. 266, etc. (1665). _Pan_, in Spenser’s ecl. iv., is Henry VIII., and “Syrinx” is Anne Boleyn. In ecl. v. “Pan” stands for Jesus Christ in one passage, and for God the Father in another.--Spenser, _Shepheardes Calendar_ (1572). _Pan_ (_The Great_), François M. A. de Voltaire; also called “The Dictator of Letters” (1694-1778).