least things; that Tickell could not have been busied in so long a
work there without his knowing something of the matter; and that he
had never heard a single word of it till on this occasion. This
surprise of Dr. Young, together with what Steele has said against
Tickell in relation to this affair, make it highly probable that
there was some underhand dealing in that business; and indeed
Tickell himself, who is a very fair worthy man, has since, in a
manner, as good as owned it to me. When it was introduced into a
conversation between Mr. Tickell and Mr. Pope by a third person,
Tickell did not deny it, which, considering his honour and zeal for
his departed friend, was the same as owning it."

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

To compare the two translations would be tedious; the palm is now
given universally to Pope, but I think the first lines of Tickell's
were rather to be preferred; and Pope seems to have since borrowed
something from them in the correction of his own.

When the Hanover succession was disputed, Tickell gave what
assistance his pen would supply. His "Letter to Avignon" stands
high among party poems; it expresses contempt without coarseness,
and superiority without insolence. It had the success which it
deserved, being five times printed.

He was now intimately united to Mr. Addison, who, when he went into
Ireland as secretary to the Lord Sunderland, took him thither, and
employed him in public business; and when (1717) afterwards he rose