"a great deal of furprize at Tickell's

having had fuch a tranflation fo long

by him. He faid, that it was incon"ceivable to him, and that there must "be fome mistake in the matter; that "each used to communicate to the "other whatever verfes they wrote, even "to the least things; that Tickell could "not have been bufied in fo long a work "there without his knowing fomething "of the matter; and that he had never "heard a fingle word of it till on this "occafion. This furprize of Dr. Young, "together with what Steele has faid "against Tickell in relation to this af“fair, make it highly probable that "there was fome underhand dealing in “that business; and indeed Tickell him

"felf,

felf, who is a very fair worthy man, has fince, in a manner, as good as "owned it to me. Mr. POPE. When

"it was introduced into a converfation "between Mr. Tickell and Mr. Pope by "a third perfon, Tickell did not deny "it; which, confidering his honour and "zeal for his departed friend, was the "fame as owning it.]"

Upon these fufpicions, with which Dr. Warburton hints that other circumftances concurred, Pope always in his Art of Sinking quotes this book as the work of Addison.

To compare the the two tranflations would be tedious; the palm is now given univerfally to Pope; but I think the first lines of Tickell's were rather to

be

be preferred, and Pope feems to have fince borrowed fomething from them in the correction of his own.

When the Hanover fucceffion was difputed, Tickell gave what affiftance his pen would fupply. His Letter to Avignon ftands high among party-poems; it expreffes contempt without coarfenefs, and fuperiority without infolence. It had the fuccefs which it deferved, being five times printed.

He was now intimately united to Mr. Addifon, who, when he went into Ireland as fecretary to the lord Sunderland, took him thither, and employed him in publick bufinefs; and when (1717) afterwards he rofe to be fecretary of flate, made him under-fecretary.

I

Their

Their friendship feems to have continued without abatement; for when Addifon died, he left him the charge of

publishing his works, with a folemn reto the patronage of

commendation

Craggs.

To thefe works he prefixed an elegy on the author, which could owe none of its beauties to the affiftance which might be fufpected to have ftrengthened or embellished his earlier compofitions; but neither he nor Addifon ever produced nobler lines than are contained in the third and fourth paragraphs, nor is a more fublime or more elegant funeral poem to be found in the whole compass of English literature.

He

He was afterwards (about 1725) made fecretary to the Lords Juftices of Ireland, a place of great honour; in which he continued till 1740, when he died on the twenty-third of April at Bath.

Of the poems yet unmentioned the longeft is Kenfington Gardens, of which the verfification is smooth and elegant, but the fiction unfkilfully compounded of Grecian Deities and Gothick Fairies. Neither fpecies of thofe exploded Beings could have done much, and when they are brought together, they only make each other contemptible. To Tickell, however, cannot be refufed a high place among the minor poets; nor fhould it be forgotten that he was one of the contributors to the Spectator. With respect

to