This rebuff affected him as Addison's praise of Tickell affected Pope, and the following lines, were published in the March of the same year: Lords too are bards!

* THOMAS TICKELL FROM ON THE DEATH OF MR.

That senate consisted of Steele, Ambrose, Phillips; the wretched Eustace Budgell, who afterwards drowned himself; sometimes Swift and Pope; and ultimately Tickell, who became his most confidential friend and the depositor of his literary remains.

He entrusted his works to the care of Tickell, and dedicated them to Craggs, his successor in the secretaryship, in a touching and beautiful letter, written a few days before his death.

Tickell wrote a fine poem to his memory; and a splendid edition of his works was published by subscription in 1721.

It is from Mr. Tickell we learn this circumstance in relation to Boileau, and we shall present it to the reader in his own words; 'his country owes it to Mr. Addison, that the famous Monsieur Boileau first conceived an opinion of the English genius for poetry, by perusing the present he made him of the Musæ Anglicanæ.

It was translated by the Abbot Antonio Mario Salvini, Greek Professor at Florence into Italian verse, which translation is printed with the original in Mr. Tickell's 4to.

While he was in Ireland, his friend Sir Richard Steel published the Tatler, which appeared for the first time, on the 12th of April 1709: Mr. Addison (says Tickell) discovered the author by an observation on Virgil he had communicated to him.

Tickell, who had no kindness for Sir Richard Steel, meanly supposes that he marked his paper out of precaution against Sir Richard; which was an ill-natur'd insinuation; for in the conclusion of the Spectators, he acknowledges to Mr. Addison, all he had a right to; and in his letter to Congreve, he declares that Addison's papers were marked by him, out of tenderness to his friend, and a warm zeal for his fame.

Steel was a generous grateful friend; it therefore ill became Mr. Tickell in the defence of Mr. Addison's honour, which needed no such stratagem, to depreciate one of his dearest friends; and at the expence of truth, and his reputation, raise the character of his Hero.

Sir Richard had opposed Mr. Addison, in the choice of Mr. Tickell as his secretary; which it seems he could never forget nor forgive.

After his decease, Mr. Tickell, by the authority and direction of the author, collected and published his works, in four volumes 4to.

[Footnote 1: Tickell's Preface to Addison's works.]

[Footnote 2: Tickell.

[Footnote 4: Tickell's Preface.

"Tickell.

Tickell, On the Prospect of Peace.

It is satisfactory to know that the undergraduate who laid itWilliam Basil Tickell Jonesattained deserved eminence in after-life, and died Bishop of St. David's.

STANHOPE, Mr., mentioned in Tickell's Epistle, iii. 388, n. 3. STANISLAUS, King, ii. 405, n. 1. STANLEY, Dean, Memorials of Westminster AbbeyEphraim Chambers's epitaph, i. 219, n. 1; Goldsmith's epitaph and Johnson's Latin, iii. 82, n. 3; Johnson's and Macpherson's graves, ii. 298, n. 2. STANTON, Mr., manager of a company of actors, ii. 464, 465.

TICKELL, JERRARD.

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In his Poem to his Excellency the Lord Privy Seal on the Prospect of Peace, Tickell invites Strafford to 'One hour, oh!

[Footnote 4: From Thomas Tickell.