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Addison declared that the rival versions were both good, but that Tickell's was the best that ever was made; and with Addison, the wits, his adherents and followers, were certain to concur. Pope does not appear to have been much dismayed, "for," says he, "I have the town that is, the mob on my side."
Next comes Tickell's valuable memoir of his friend Addison, prefixed, as preface, to his edition of Addison's works, published in 1721, with Steele's singularly interesting strictures on the memoir, being the dedication of the second edition of the Drummer to Congreve.
There is, however, a fine burst of poetical eloquence in the lines beginning "Superior hopes the poet's bosom fire;" and this passage, accordingly, as being the best in the poem, was, by the gossiping critics of the day, attributed to Tickell, from the same laudable motives that had induced them to attribute Tickell's bad farce to Sheridan.
Sheridan and his sister, Tickell, who, on the change of administration, was to have been immediately brought into Parliament, Joseph Richardson, who was to have had Tickell's place of Commissioner of the Stamp-office, Mr. Reid, and some others. Not one of the company but had cherished expectations from the approaching change not one of them, however, had lost so much as Mr. Sheridan.
Tickell's version of the first book appeared soon after this conversation. In the preface all rivalry was earnestly disclaimed. Tickell declared that he should not go on with the Iliad. That enterprise he should leave to powers which he admitted to be superior to his own.
But he remarks "that it is common for the smaller party to make up in diligence what they want in numbers. He appeals to the people as his proper judges, and if they are not inclined to condemn him, he is in little care about the highflyers at Button's." Pope did not long think Addison an impartial judge, for he considered him as the writer of Tickell's version.
He so fell upon Ambrose Philips, who forthwith hung a rod up in Button's, and let Pope know that he would use it on him should he ever catch him under that roof. The poet took a more than ample revenge in many a stinging line of satire afterwards. Pope was cut adrift from Button's through the controversy as to which was the better version of the Iliad, his or Tickell's.
Addison, however he hated the men then in power, suffered his friendship to prevail over his public spirit, and gave in the Spectator such praises of Tickell's poem that when, after having long wished to peruse it, I laid hold of it at last, I thought it unequal to the honours which it had received, and found it a piece to be approved rather than admired.
Vivian, and Mr. Waterton. From the latter, Mr. Hope had 'an interesting account of Tickell's reception into the Church of Rome at Bruges. He was himself present, and very much struck by T.'s devout and humble behaviour. 'Of the Roman clergy, Mr. They would fear their information would be used against them.
Addison's were, in correspondence with me, ought to have been published without my review of the catalogue of them. Three pages afterward, it appears that, in compliance with the request of Addison delivered to him by Tickell, he did mark with his own hand those Tatlers which were inserted in Addison's works a statement of Tickell's, but a statement to which Steele takes no exception.
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