to his perfonal character, he is faid to have been a man of gay converfation, at least a temperate lover of wine and company, and in his domeftick relations without cenfure. THE two Poems which follow would have been inferted in the Collection, if the compilers could have obtained copics of them. To complete the poetical works of Tickell, they are here copied from the "Select Collection of "Mifcellany Poems, 1780." OXFORD, A POEM *, INSCRIBED TO LORD LONSDALE, 1707. "Unum opus eft intacte Palladis urbem "Carmine perpetuo celebrare'— Hor. 1 Od. vii. WHILST you, my Lord, adorn that stately feat, Richard, fecond lord viscount Lonfdale. He died of the finall-pox, Dec. 1, 1713. N. Whilst you inhabit Lowther's awful pile, Me Fortune and kind Heaven's indulgent care To pay due homage to the mighty Nine, Here I, the meanest of the tuneful throng, Sir John Lowther, one of the early promoters of the Revolution, was conftituted vice-chamberlain to King William and Queen Mary on their advancement to the throne; created baron Lowther and viscount Lonfdale May 28, 1696; and appointed lord privy feal in 1699. He died July 10, N. 1700. Which thus my thanks to much-lov'd Oxford rays, In no ungrateful, though unar ful lays. Where fhall I firft the beauteous fcene disclose, And all the gay variety expofe? For wherefoe'er I turn my wondering eyes, O! might your eyes behold each sparkling And freely o'er the beauteous prospect roam, That Nature's aid might feem an ufelefs grace; view Old Athens loft and conquer'd in the new, More Equal to models in his curious thought, See, where the facred dome Sheldon's haughty Rivals the ftately pomp of ancient Rome, Whofe form, fo great and noble, feems defign'd Sir John Vanbrugh. N. The Theatre. T. B Delight |