Thomas Tickell



Thomas Tickell (December 17, 1685 – April 23, 1740) was a minor English poet and man of letters.

Quotes

 * Prevent the rising sun.
 * Oxford (1707).

Win us from vice, and laugh us into sense.
 * Fight virtue's cause, stand up in wit's defence,
 * On the Prospect of Peace (1713), line 428.

That brought the sons of Greece unnumber'd woes, O Goddess! sing. Full many a hero's ghost Was driven untimely to th' infernal coast, While in promiscuous heaps their bodies lay, A feast for dogs and every bird of prey. So did the sire of gods and men fulfil His stedfast purpose and almighty will; What time the haughty chiefs their jars begun, Atrides, king of men, and Peleus' godlike son.
 * Achilles' fatal wrath, whence discord rose,
 * The First Book of the Iliad (1715).


 * Just men, by whom impartial laws were given; And saints who taught and led the way to heaven.
 * On the Death of Mr. Addison (1721), line 41. The work was an epitath for Tickell's friend and employer, Joseph Addison.


 * Nor e'er was to the bowers of bliss conveyed A fairer spirit or more welcome shade.
 * On the Death of Mr. Addison (1721), line 45.

A candid censor, and a friend severe; There taught us how to live; and (oh! too high The price for knowledge) taught us how to die.
 * There patient show'd us the wise course to steer,
 * On the Death of Mr. Addison (1721), line 81. Compare: "He who should teach men to die, would at the same time teach them to live", Michel de Montaigne, Essay, book i. chap. ix.; "I have taught you, my dear flock, for above thirty years how to live; and I will show you in a very short time how to die", Sandys, Anglorum Speculum, p. 903; "Teach him how to live, And, oh still harder lesson! how to die", Beilby Porteus, Death, line 316; "He taught them how to live and how to die", Somerville, In Memory of the Rev. Mr. Moore.


 * A snow of blossoms and a wild of flowers.
 * Kensington Garden (1722).


 * The sweetest garland to the sweetest maid.
 * To a Lady with a Present of Flowers.

Lo! Envy waits, that lover of the dead.
 * though every friend be fled,
 * On the Death of the Earl of Cadogan.

And she the loveliest of the loveliest race.
 * He 'midst the graceful of superior grace,
 * Verses to Mrs. Lowther on her Marriage.


 * I hear a voice you cannot hear, Which says I must not stay; I see a hand you cannot see,  Which beckons me away.
 * Colin and Lucy.