talents for oratory as well as for poetry. Nor was this judgment
wrong. Young, after he took orders, became a very popular preacher,
and was much followed for the grace and animation of his delivery.
By his oratorical talents he was once in his life, according to the
Biographia, deserted. As he was preaching in his turn at St.
James's, he plainly perceived it was out of his power to command the
attention of his audience. This so affected the feelings of the
preacher, that he sat back in the pulpit, and burst into tears. But
we must pursue his poetical life.

In 1719 he lamented the death of Addison, in a letter addressed to
their common friend Tickell. For the secret history of the
following lines, if they contain any, it is now vain to seek:

"IN JOY ONCE JOINED, in sorrow, now, for years--
Partner in grief, and brother of my tears,
Tickell, accept this verse, thy mournful due."

From your account of Tickell it appears that he and Young used to
"communicate to each other whatever verses they wrote, even to the
least things."

In 1719 appeared a "Paraphrase on Part of the Book of Job." Parker,
to whom it is dedicated, had not long, by means of the seals, been
qualified for a patron. Of this work the author's opinion may be
known from his letter to Curll: "You seem, in the Collection you
propose, to have omitted what I think may claim the first place in
it; I mean 'a Translation from part of Job,' printed by Mr. Tonson."
The Dedication, which was only suffered to appear in Mr. Tonson's
edition, while it speaks with satisfaction of his present