The Lives of the Poets of Great Britain and Ireland (1753) Volume V. by Theophilus Cibber
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Thoughts occasioned by the sight of an original
picture of King Charles the 1st, taken at the time of his Trial. A Fragment of a Poem, on Hunting. A Description of the Phoenix, from Claudian. To a Lady; with the Description of the Phoenix. Part of the Fourth Book of Lucan translated. The First Book of Homer's Iliad. Kensington-Gardens. Several Epistles and Odes. This translation was published much about the same time with Mr. Pope's. But it will not bear a comparison; and Mr. Tickell cannot receive a greater injury, than to have his verses placed in contradistinction to Pope's. Mr. Melmoth, in his Letters, published under the name of Fitz Osborne, has produced some parallel passages, little to the advantage of Mr. Tickell, who if he fell greatly short of the elegance and beauty of Pope, has yet much exceeded Mr. Congreve, in what he has attempted of Homer. In the life of Addison, some farther particulars concerning this translation are related; and Sir Richard Steele, in his dedication of the Drummer to Mr. Congreve, gives it as his opinion, that Addison was |
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