Poll (rb'&h gulguleth, Numb, i, 2, 18, 20, 22 ; iii, 47; 1 Chron. xxiii, 3, 24), the head (as rendered in 1 Chron. x, 10), or skull (as in Judg. ix, 53; 2 Kings ix, 35). The verb lito poll" in the A. V. is the rendering of TTJ, nbn, or C&3, all signifying to shear.
Pollajuolo, Antonio, a noted Italian artist of the Florentine school of painters and sculptors, flourished in the second half of the 15th century. He was the pupil of Lorenzo Ghiberti, and assisted this master in the cel- ebrated gates of the Baptistery of San Giovanni. Anto- nio is said to have been the first artist who studied the dead subject for the purposes of design. In 1484 he was invited to Rome by pope Innocent VIII, to elabo- rate a monument of the then but just expired Sixtus IV, which is now in the chapel of the Sacrament of St.
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i : i also 1 1 j » - monumenl of [nnoo a\ VIII,
which he afterwards elaborated. His brothi i
wise an artisl of Bome celebrity. The two brothers wrought many great productionsjointly. Their best is tli" Martyrdom of St. Sebastian, painted in 1 17.".. and was for some time in the church De Servi at Flor- I; i> now iii the National Gallery at London, and - ived in the Etruria Pittria of Lastri. Ii i- a c, without being refined or in the least idealistic. Mrs. Clement, Handbook of Painters, etc, p. 162; . Biog. Hist. ofUu Fim Arts, B.v. Pollajuolo, Pietro. SeePoLi uuolo, Ahtonio. Pollajuolo, Simone, a distinguished Italian ar- chitect, noted as the builder of many beautifi astical structures, was bom ;it Florence in 1454. He ted i" Antonio del Pollajuolo, and lived with him Bome time at Rome. Becoming a devoted follow- er ^i Savonarola, I"' was discarded by the churchmen, and in liis later years was obliged to Bpend his talents
a labors. He was one of the most pr incut
architects in the building of the Strozzi Palai . Hi died in 1529.
Pollard, William, an English Wesleyan minister, was born at Guisborough,in Yorkshire, in 1792. He was
i when but a youth, and soon after I of God to preach the Gospel. He pn pared himself for the ministry, a work which be not only enjoyed, but one in which his labors always met with success. He was a man of great p'n-ty and sound faith, a faithful dis- penser of the Word of Life, and an exemplary teacher. He possessed a Btrong memory and a cultivated mind. richly Btored with divine truth. He died at Newport- Pagnell April:;. 1839.
Pollinctorii, an appellation given by the Romans to those who washed and anointed the dead prepara- tory to burial.
Pollio, a name common to a number of Lutheran theologians, of whom we mention the following:
1. Joa( him, who was born Aug. 26, 1577, at Breslau, in Silesia, lie pursued bis studies at Leipsic, when.
aemagisterol philosophy in L597. In IS02 he was pastor at Buntzlau, in 1607 provost of the I hurch « i the Holy Ghosl and pastor of St Bernard in Bres- lau; in 1616 he was made assessor of the evangelical consistory; in 1618 he was appointed pastor of St. .Alary Magdalene, and died Jan. 29, Mil. lie wrote I ■ i onsilioni in lie
2. Lit \s. who was born at Breslau in 1536. He studied at Frankfort and Wittenberg. In the latter
tllj attended the lectures "I' Melancthon
on the i , [n 1562 hi was appointed
■ the St. Eli abi th I rj mnasium in Bn shut ;
rds, in 1565, he weiii h> Leipsic
for the Btudy of Hebrew and theology. In the same
was appointed deacon of St Elizabeth in Ids
i in 1567 he was made pastor of St.
ii i d Jul} 31, i i83. I
lio left a number of si r a behind him.
3. I.i' \s. son ■■!' Joachim, who was born Aug. 1.
H studied at Leipsic. where lie also of St Nicolai. lie died April 25, 1643. . i isabeth in ' St. Maria .1/.
' - I k I '. > Pollok. I.....I I.,. \.m.. the noted author of the ' h bard of no mean order, and a
tfuirl Oct. IS bumble | worked on his
father's farm, but evincing more than ordinary mental strength and I,
wa red in the Univi rsity
IW '" >s|-'- l! live \,ars after,
'inn.,! upon the hi,- ,,i i|„. holy niiiiis[r\ , for
which lie then began hi- hi seminary of the United Ses-imis Church. He was ready for ordination in 1827, and was in that year licensed to preach. His lir.si public di-course. which was delivered on May 3, 1827, i- -i ■ ken of as a most brilliant and interesting effort, which, while it evinced a mind of extraordina- ry power and promise, at the same time gave indica- tions that the Church would too - l be deprived of
its service Such was the fatigue occasioned by this ertion that he was immediately confined to and although in a few days he was partially
restored, he preached only three times afterwards, .hist before he had received his license. Pollok had finished the poem on which his great literary reputation rots, the Coursi "/'Jim', 'lie- object of the poet, whose sentiments are strongly Calvinistic, and whose piety is rather of a gloomy cast, is to describe the spiritual life and destiny of man : and he varies his religious specu- lations with episodical pictures and narrations to illus- trate the effects of virtue or vice. A work so ambitious from the hands ofa country student, attached to a small body of Dissenters, was not likely to find a patron among publishers. It happened to be shown to Prof. Wilson, of Edinburgh, as a curiosity; hut this ureal man hes- itated not to recognise worth even in a young and un- known student, and the work was by him so heartily commended for its L,rreat poetic power that its publica- tion was undertaken by .Mr. Blackwood, of Edinburgh, The Count Bpeedily passed through s.Mral editions. It was a novelty in the class of evangelical religious literature to which it belonged, and besides pleasing those who are partial to that class of religious litera- ture, it was a boon to many who are inclined to read religious hooks, but are repelled hy their general dry- ness and insipidity, while it was warmly admired by the literary world at large. Pollok'a partial .admirers expected for him a place on a level with Milton. Alter the novelty of such a phenomenon had. however, passed off, the book became neglected by purely literary read- ers; and at this day it may he said that it is estimated too highly by the religious and perhaps too insignifi- cantly by the literary world. It is certainly a work of great power, however meagre in fancy. There are many flashes of original genius which light up the crude and unwieldy design, and atone for the narrow- range of thought and knowledge, as well as for the stiff pomposity that pervades the diction. There are in it a P w passages which are strikingly and most, poetically imaginative, and some of which are beautifully touch- ing. It has also, however, a considerable amount of sentiment deeply tinged with religious asceticism, and VN hole pages of plain and humble prose. These defects, it should be borne in mind. Pollok would in all proba- bility have removed himself, guided by a more ripened judgment, in a careful revision, had Providence been pleased to prolong his life. liis mind was evidently imbued with Paradise Lost, and he follows Milton often to the verge of direct imitation: hut even as the work stands it is the undoubted production of a poetic genius, and it will always he read with profit and delight Before the publication of his poem Pollok hail undermined his constitution by excessive