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Opera. I own appearances are against the latter, for it was written in the same house with me and Dr. Swift. He used to communicate the parts of it as he wrote them to us; but neither of us did any more than alter an expression here and there.-The

same.

Lord Bolingbroke is something superior to any thing I have seen in human nature. You know I don't deal much in hyperboles. I quite think him what I say.— The same.

Addison had Budgel, and I think Philips, in the house with him. Gay they would call one of my eleves. They were angry with me for keeping so much with Dr. Swift, and some of the late ministry. Parnell was with me too, and had come over from the others when Lord Oxford was at the head of affairs. On Parnell's having been introduced into Bolingbroke's company, and his speaking afterwards of the great pleasure he had in his conversation, Mr. Addison came out with his old expression, "If he had but as good a heart as he has a head!"

and applied to him, "that canker'd Bolingbroke!" from Shakspeare.-The same.

There had been a coldness between Mr. Addison and me for some time; and we had not been in company together for a good while any where, but at Button's Coffeehouse; where I used to see him almost every day. On his meeting me there one day in particular, he took me aside, and said, he should be glad to dine with me at such a tavern, if I would stay till these people were gone (Budgell and Philips). We went accordingly; and after dinner Mr. Addison said, " he had wanted for some time to talk with me; that he found Tickell had formerly, whilst at Oxford, translated the first book of the Iliad; that he now designed to print it, and had desired him to look it over: that he must therefore beg that I would not desire him to look over my first book, because, if he did, it would have the air of double dealing." I assured him that "I did not at all take it ill of Mr. Tickell that he was going to publish his translation: that he certainly

had as much right to translate any author as myself, and that publishing both was entering on a fair stage." I then added, that "I would not desire him to look over my first book of the Iliad, because he had. looked over Mr. Tickell's; but would wish to have the benefit of his observations on my second, which I had then finished, and which Mr. Tickell had not touched upon." Accordingly I sent him the second book the next morning, and Mr. Addison a few days after returned it with very high commendations. Soon after it was generally known that Mr. Tickell was publishing the first book of the Iliad, I met Dr. Young in the street, and upon our falling into that subject, the Doctor expressed a great deal of surprise at Tickell's having had such a translation so long by him. He said that it was inconceivable to him, and that there must be some mistake in the matter: that Tickell and he were so intimately acquainted at Oxford that each used to communicate to the other whatever verses they wrote even to the least things; that Tickell

could not have been busied in so long a work there without his knowing something

of the matter, and that he never heard a single word of it till on this occasion. This surprise of Dr. Young, together with what Steele has said against Tickell in relation to this affair, make it highly probable that there was some underhand dealing in that business; and indeed Tickell himself, who is a very fair worthy man, has since in a manner as good as owned it to me.-Mr. Pope. [When it was introduced into a conversation between Mr. Tickell and Mr. Pope by a third person, Tickell did not deny it; which, considering his honour and zeal for his departed friend, was the same as owning it.]

Philips seemed to have been encouraged to abuse me in coffee-houses and conversations; and Gildon wrote a thing about Wycherly, in which he had abused both me and my relations very grossly. Lord Warwick himself told me one day, that "it was in vain for me to endeavour to be well with Mr. Addison; that his jealous

temper would never admit of a settled friendship between us." And, to convince me of what he had said, assured me that

Addison had encouraged Gildon to publish those scandals, and had given him ten guineas after they were published." The next day, while I was heated with what I had heard, I wrote a letter to Mr. Addison, to let him know that I was not unacquainted with this behaviour of his; that if I was to speak severely of him in return for it, it should not be in such a dirty way; and that I should rather tell him himself freely of his faults, and allow his good qualities; and that it should be something in the following manner: I then adjoined the first sketch of what has since been called my Satire on Addison. Mr. Addison used me very civilly ever after, and never did me any injustice that I know of, from that time to his death, which was about three years after. The same. [Dr. Trapp, who was

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by at the time of this conversation, said that he wondered how so many people came to imagine that Mr. Pope did not

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