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feems to involve a contradiction; the tenth is exquifitely beautiful; the thirteenth, fourteenth, and fifteenth, are partly mythological, and partly religious, and therefore not fuitable to each other: he might better have made the whole merely philofophical,

There are two ftanzas in this poem where Yalden may be fufpected, though hardly convicted, of having confulted the Hymnus ad Umbram of Wowerus, in the fixth ftanza, which answers in fome fort to these lines:

Illa fuo præeft nocturnis numine facrisPerque vias errare novis dat spectra figuris, Manefque excitos medios ululare per agros Sub noctem, et queftu notos complere penates.

And again, at the conclufion:

Illa fuo fenium fecludit corpore toto
Haud numerans jugi fugientia fecula lapfu,
Ergo ubi poftremum mundi compage folutâ
Hanc rerum molem fuprema abfumpferit hora
Ipfa leves cineres nube amplectetur opacâ,
Et prifco imperio rurfus dominabitur UMBRA.

His Hymn to Light is not equal to the other. He feems to think that there is an Eaft abfolute and positive where the Morning rifes.

In the last stanza, having mentioned the fudden eruption of new created Light, he fays,

Awhile th'Almighty wondering stood.

He ought to have remembered that Infinite Knowledge can never wonder, All wonder is the effect of novelty upon ignorance.

Of his other poems it is fufficient to say that they deserve perufal, though they are not always exactly polished, and the rhymes are fometimes very ill forted, and though his faults seem rather the omiffions of idlenefs than the negligences of enthusiasm,

TICKELL,

TICKEL L.

TICKEL L.

THOMAS TICKELL, the fon of the reverend Richard Tickell, was born in 1686 at Bridekirk in Cumberland; and in April 1701 became a member of Queen's College in Oxford; in 1708 he was made Master of Arts, and two years afterwards was chofen Fellow; for which, as he did not comply with the statutes by taking orders, he obtained a difpenfation from the Crown. He held his Fellowship till 1726, and then vacated it, by marrying, in that year, at Dublin.

Tickell was not one of thofe fcholars who wear away their lives in clofets; he entered early into the world, and was long bufy in publick affairs; in which he was initiated. under the patronage of Addifon, whose notice he is faid to have gained by his verses in praife of Rofamond.

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