was Secretary of State, and in the same station was he under Mr. Craggs and Mr. Addison during the time that they were Secretaries of State, in which office he justly got the reputation both of ability and integrity; so that I am persuaded that your Lordships will have reason to be satisfied with his conduct in whatever you shall think fit to employ him. I am, my Lords, with great respect,
most faithfull humble Servant, CARTERET.
Tickell had a small villa near the village of Glasneven, in the neighbourhood of Dublin, and was buried in Glasneven churchyard. A tablet to his memory in Glasneven church has this inscription :
The Memory of
THOMAS TICKELL, Esq.,
who was born in 1686,
At Bridekirk in Cumberland;
He married, in 1726, Clotilda Eustace,
Died in April, 1740, at Bath,
And was buried in this Churchyard.
He was for some time Under Secretary in England,
And afterwards, for many years,
Secretary to the Lords Justices of Ireland ;
But his highest Honor was that of having been
The Friend of Addison.
The said Clotilda Eustace
Was the Daughter and one of the Coleiresses
Sir Maurice Eustace, Kt.
of Harristown, in the County of Kildare.
She died in July, 1792,
In the 924 Year of her Age,
And was also buried in this Churchyard.
By his will he left his wife his executrix and the guardian of his children. "She was," writes her great-grandson, "a very clever
and most excellent woman.”
He left two sons, John and Thomas, and two daughters. Thomas died unmarried. Richard Tickell, the poet, was the grandson of Addison's friend, and the uncle of Edward Tickell, Esq., Q.C.
Mr. Tickell has "a very good portrait" of his great-grandfather
by Vanderbank. The portrait at Queen's College, Oxford, was presented by the father of Mr. Edward Tickell, Q.C. The poet's library was sold in 1792, at the death of his widow.
Vol. ii. p. 289, note 20, add
"To my knowledge, she [the Countess of Suffolk] sincerely tried to serve some; but without effect: she could not even procure a place of 2001. a year for John Gay, a very poor and honest man, and no bad poet, only because he was a poet, which the King considered as a mechanic "LORD CHESTERFIELD (character of Lady Suffolk, first published in Lord Mahon's Chesterfield,' ii. 441).
"The death of poor Hammond was the only event that disturbed the tranquillity of my mind: he died in the beginning of a career which, if he had lived, I think he would have finished with reputation and distinction. But such is the folly, knavery, and futility of the world, and such was his truth, fidelity, and attachment to me, that in my opinion I have lost more by his death than he has."-CHESTERFIELD to Lyttelton, Bath, June 19, 1742 (Phillimore's Lyttelton,' i. 215).
Vol. ii. p. 370, note 45.
"R." (the former annotator) was Isaac Reed.
Savage sat to John Ellis, a painter of several theatrical portraits. Mrs. Vannost, or Van Ost, the wife of the sculptor, had the picture. Ben Victor, who tells us this (Letters, 8vo., 1776, i. 264), calls her Savage's sister.
"Mr. Pope's Eloisa to Abelard' is such a chef-d'œuvre, that nothing of the kind can be relished after it. Yet it is not the story itself, nor the sympathy it excites in us, as Dr. Johnson would have us think, that constitutes the principal merit in that incomparable poem. It is the happy use he has made of the monastic gloom of the Paraclete, and of what I will call Papistical machinery, which gives it its capital charm; so that I am almost inclined to wonder (if I could wonder at any of that writer's criticisms) that he did not take notice of this beauty, as his own superstitious turn certainly must have given him more than a sufficient relish for it.”—MASON: Life of Whitehead, 8vo., 1788, p. 35.
Mr. Cunningham will feel obliged to any one who will correct an error either in the text or notes of this edition of Johnson, so that he may secure in the end a perfect text of this British Classic.
Vol. i., Preface, p. xxiv. line 6, for hexameters read heroics.
p. 110, 1. last, for necessarily read necessary.
for inventions read invention.
14, for consequences read conferences.
p. 215, 1. 6, for tarriers read terriers.
Vol. ii. p. 37, note 11,
p. 125, note 20, for youth read lad.
Vol. iii. p. 127, note 269, for had read has.
NOTE. The Roman numerals i., ii., iii., refer to the Volumes, the Arabic numerals to the pages.
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ADDISON, JOSEPH; on burlesque poetry,
i. 185 note. His retort upon Edmund
Smith, ii. 51, 52. His complaint of
the neglect of Smith's tragedy, 53.
His opinion of Rowe, 114, 115. His
birth, parentage, and tutors, 119.
Takes the lead in a "barring-out
119, 120, and notes. His early friend-
ship with Steele, 120. His treatment
of Steele in a matter of debt, 121, and
note, and vol. iii. 424. His success
at college, ii. 121. His fondness for
his Latin compositions, 122. His in-
terviews with Malbranche and Boi-
leau, ib. note 7. Admiration of Boi-
leau for his Latin poems, 122, 123,
and note. Begins to write English
poetry, 123. Dryden's eulogium on
his Georgics', ib. Influence of his
introduction to Montague (Halifax)
on his prospects. 124. Obtains a pen-
sion and proceeds on his travels, 125.
His Dialogue on Medals'; contro-
versy as to where Cato' was written,
b. and notes 20 21. His Epistle' to
Halifax, 126, and note 23 Conse-
quences of the non-remittance of his
pension, ib. Publishes his Travels,'
126, 127, and notes 25-27. His pro-
jected tutorship to the son of the
proud Duke", 127, and note 28.
Writes his 'Campaign'; his attic
study, ib. and note 29. His rewards,
128. Fate of his opera of 'Rosa-
mond'; its dedication, ib. and notes
32 33. Its merit, 160, 161. His Irish
secretaryship; contrast between him
and his chief, 128, 129. Swift's com-
ments upon the conjunction of the
two, 129, and notes 35 36. Mr. Macau-
lay on Addison's Irish parliamentary
career, ib. note 37. His reasons for
taking fees from his friends, 130, and
note 3. His participation in The
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Tatler', b. and notes 38 39 Com-
mencement of The Spectator'; its
objects, 131. Addison's view of the
effects of his periodicals, 133, and
note". His share in 'Theophrastus',
ib. and note 5. His jealous care of Sir
Roger de Coverley, 134, 135. Inter-
ference of the stamp with the sale of
"The Spectator', 135, and note. Com-
pletion of Cato' for the stage, 135,
136. The author's coquettings rela-
tive thereto, 136, 137. Its perform-
ance and success, 137, 138. Why
published without a dedication, 138.
Dennis's assaults upon it, and Pope's
equivocal defence, 138, 139, and
notes 53 57.
Its various translations
and performances abroad, 139, and
note 63
Addison's share in The
Guardian'; his equal love of fame and
profit, 140, 141, and notes 64-66 His
silence on the authorship of 'The
Drummer', 141, and notes 67 68. Short
life of his 'Whig Examiner'; its
merits, 142, and notes 69-72. Revival
of The Spectator'; his papers in it,
142, 143. His difficulty in a State
crisis, 143. His 'Freeholder'; Steele's
remark upon it, 144. His infelicitous
marriage; character of his wife, 144,
145, and note 76. Becomes Secretary
of State; cause of his resignation, 145,
and notes 77 76 His further literary
projects; Tonson's sneer at his piety,
146. His quarrel with Steele, 147.
Their pamphleteering skirmishes, 148.
His approaching end and unexplained
interview with Gay, 149. His death-
bed monition to Lord Warwick, 150,
and note 83. His death, burial place,
and portraits, ib. and note 85.
personal character; his alleged bash-
fulness, 151. His literary egotism and
jealousy, 152. His fluency of com-
position and anxiety for correctness
of style, 153. His daily life; devo-
tion to Bacchus, &c., 153, 154, and
notes. Mandeville's notion of
him, 134, and note 100. His quickness
of discernment and moral excellence,
133. His services to religion, 156.
His reputation as a critic, 156. His
carly poems, 157, and note 105. Meta-
phor in his Letter from Italy', 158.
His Campaign'; epithet bestowed on
it by J. Warton, ib. and note 107; cor-
rectness of its similes, 159, 160.
His Cato' rather a poetic dialogue
than a drama, 161. Specimen of
Dennis's criticisms on the tragedy,
162-174, and note 115. Character of
Addison's translations, 174. His ver-
sification, 175. Value of his criti-
cisms, 175-177.
His merits as an
essayist, 177, 178. Copy of his me-
morial to George I., 179, 180. Pope's
charge against him relative to Tick-
ell's translation of Homer, 321-323,
and iii. 43, 44, and notes 93 94.
advice to Pope and supposed motive,
iii. 19, 20, and note . Alleged effect
of Pope's Windsor Forest' upon
him, 22. His appreciation of Pope's
artifices, and of the object of the
comparison between Philips and Pope,
22, 23, and notes 49 31 53 Opening
of the breach between him and Pope,
40, 41. Reported angry interview of
the two, 42, 43.
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Akenside, Mark; honourable conduct of
on ceasing to study for the dissenting
pulpit, iii. 375. His zeal for liberty,
375, 376, and note 2. Price de-
manded by him for his 'Pleasures of
Imagination', 376. Result of his me-
dical studies at Leyden, 377. His
controversies on the proposition that
'Ridicule is the test of Truth', 377,
378, and notes 67. Attacks Pulte-
ney, and agrees to write in Dods-
ley's Museum', 378, and note.
calities in which he practised as a
physician, 378, 379. Munificence of
his friend Dyson, 379, and note
His 'Discourse on the Dysentery' a
"specimen of Latinity", 379, 380.
Cause of his death; Henderson's ludi-
crous description of him, 380, and
note. Character of his Pleasures
of Imagination', 380-382. Best me-
moir of him, ib., note. Three letters
(now first published) from him to
David Fordyce, 383-388.
Andrews, Bishop; apposite rebuke of
brother Bishop by, i. 220.
Arbuthnot, Dr. ; eulogium on, iii. 79.
Atterbury, Francis ; praises Pope's verses
on Addison, iii. 45. His friendship
towards Pope and last interview with
him, 49, and note 10. Work edited
by him, 83, and note 186.
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Blackmore, Sir Richard; long residence
in college of, ii. 249. His travels;
takes a degree at Padua, . Re-
proached for having once taught at a
school, 249, 250. How he wrote his
'Prince Arthur', 250, 251. Dennis's
attack on the poem, 251, and note ®.
Subsequent friendship of poet and
critic, 252. Taken into favour by
William III., ib., and note. What the
wits attributed his knighthood to, 253,
and note. His 'Paraphrase of Job';
Dryden's ridicule of it, ib., and note "1.
Storm raised by his Satire against
Wit', 254, and notes 12-15. Oblivion
into which his Eliza' soon fell, 255,
and note 7. His Advice to Poets',
and to a Weaver, ., and notes 18-30
Superiority of his 'Creation' over his
other works, 256. His periodical 'The
Lay Monastery, 257, and notes 57.
Its chief member described, 257-259.
Lifelessness of his prose writings, 259.
His observations on Wit, 259, 260.
His fierce attack upon A Tale of a
Tub', 260, 261. Favourable sample
of his prose, 261, 262. His Redenip-
tion', abortive translation of the
Psalms, and epic of Alfred', 262,
263, and notes 36 37. Loses his pa-
tients, and takes to writing medical
treatises, 263, 264. Samples of their
style, 264, 265. His death and curious
contingent bequest, 265, and note *.
His indifference to the assaults of
satirists, 266. Enumeration of some
of his assailants, ib., note. Superficial
nature of his attainments, 267. His
style; character of his Creation,'
267. Song of Mopas from his 'Prince
Arthur', 268-270.
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Blount, Martha; Pope's lasting attach-
ment to, iii. 89. Her parentage;
errors of Pope's biographers regarding
her, ib., note. Her quarrel with the
Allens and its supposed consequences,
93, 94, and notes 219 221
Boileau's interview with Addison, ii.
122, note. His reason for persisting
in a "pretty lie", 232.
Bolingbroke, Lord; originator of Pope's
Essay on Man', iii. 65. Extent
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