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| | §19. Thomas Tickell. VI. Lesser Verse Writers. Vol. 9. From Steele and Addison to Pope and Swift. The Cambridge ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22) |
 | | Thomas Tickell was born in 1688, at his fathers vicarage, Bridekirk, in Cumberland, and, in April, 1701, entered Queens college, Oxford, of which he became a fellow in November, 1700a poetaster preferred over better men, according to the relentless tory, Thomas Hearne. |
 | | Tickell, who was not one of these scholars who wear away their lives in closets, found a stepping-stone into the outer world through the patronage of Addison. |
 | | Tickell addressed himself to this most difficult and delicate task with so much loyalty and assiduity that, by 3 October, 1721, the collective edition of Addisons works was ready for the public, in four sumptuous quarto volumes. |
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