Tickell

[ tik-uhl ]

/ ˈtɪk əl /

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Thomas, 1686–1740, English poet and translator.

QUIZZES

In effect, this quiz will prove whether or not you have the skills to know the difference between “affect” and “effect.”

Question 1 of 7

The rainy weather could not ________ my elated spirits on my graduation day.

Pope laughed at his Pastorals, which had been overpraised by Tickell.
Haunted London|Walter Thornbury
He and Tickell, who had married the sister of his wife, used to play them off on one another like a couple of schoolboys.
The Wits and Beaux of Society|Grace & Philip Wharton
Tickell describes its song as “a wild, mellow whistle pleasingly modulated.”
Jungle Folk|Douglas Dewar
The body was at once placed on the horse and conveyed home, where the surgeon, named Tickell, proceeded to examine it.
Cornish Characters|S. Baring-Gould

The formal narrative prefixed to his works by Tickell is, by that writers own admission, little more than a bibliography.
Addison|William John Courthope