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Tickell
[ tik-uhl ]
noun
- Thomas, 1686–1740, English poet and translator.
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Pope laughed at his Pastorals, which had been overpraised by Tickell.
He and Tickell, who had married the sister of his wife, used to play them off on one another like a couple of schoolboys.
Tickell describes its song as “a wild, mellow whistle pleasingly modulated.”
The body was at once placed on the horse and conveyed home, where the surgeon, named Tickell, proceeded to examine it.
The formal narrative prefixed to his works by Tickell is, by that writers own admission, little more than a bibliography.
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