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Thomas Tickell
12 quotes
“Prevent the rising sun.”
Thomas Tickell (1685–1740) first seen 1707 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Oxford (1707).
“Fight virtue's cause, stand up in wit's defence, Win us from vice, and laugh us into sense.”
Thomas Tickell (1685–1740) first seen 1713 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: On the Prospect of Peace (1713), line 428.
“Achilles' fatal wrath, whence discord rose, 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.”
Thomas Tickell (1685–1740) first seen 1715 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: 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.”
Thomas Tickell (1685–1740) first seen 1721 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: 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.”
Thomas Tickell (1685–1740) first seen 1721 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: On the Death of Mr. Addison (1721), line 45.
“There patient show'd us the wise course to steer, 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.”
Thomas Tickell (1685–1740) first seen 1721 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: 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 ab…
“A snow of blossoms and a wild of flowers.”
Thomas Tickell (1685–1740) first seen 1722 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Kensington Garden (1722).
“The sweetest garland to the sweetest maid.”
Thomas Tickell (1685–1740) said by 1740 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“though every friend be fled, Lo! Envy waits, that lover of the dead.”
Thomas Tickell (1685–1740) said by 1740 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“He 'midst the graceful of superior grace, And she the loveliest of the loveliest race.”
Thomas Tickell (1685–1740) said by 1740 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“I hear a voice you cannot hear, Which says I must not stay; I see a hand you cannot see, Which beckons me away.”
Thomas Tickell (1685–1740) said by 1740 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“There taught us how to live; and (oh! too high The price for knowledge) taught us how to die.”
Thomas Tickell (1685–1740) first seen 1721 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: To the Earl of Warwick, on the Death of Mr. Addison (1721), line 81.