 | James Ferguson - 1819 - 340 pagina’s
...the assistance which Addison gave him, " with such force of genius, humour, wit, and " learning, that I fared like a distressed prince who " calls in a...neighbour to his aid : I was " undone by my auxiliary." Addison, indeed, added gravity and dignity to the work, which has conferred on it a permanent value.... | |
 | Vicesimus Knox - 1821 - 322 pagina’s
...of the assistance which Addison gave him, "with such force of genius, humour, wit, and learnmg, that I fared like a distressed prince who calls in a powerful...neighbour to his aid : I was undone by my auxiliary." Addison, indeed, added gravity and dignity to the work, which has conferred on it a permanent value.... | |
 | Tobias Merton (pseud) - 1824 - 480 pagina’s
...he says, " This good office he performed with such force of genius, humour, wit, ana learning, that I fared like a distressed prince, who calls in a powerful...neighbour to his aid — I was undone by my auxiliary." • In the Spectator, Addison appeared to still greater advantage: here, being released from the desultory... | |
 | Vicesimus Knox - 1824 - 606 pagina’s
...the assistance which Addison gave him, " with such force of genius, humour, wit, and learning, that I fared like a distressed prince, who calls in a powerful...neighbour to his aid : I was undone by my auxiliary." Addison, indeed, added gravity and dignity to the work, which has conferred on it a permanent value.... | |
 | 1829 - 804 pagina’s
...this nature. This good office he performed with such force of genius, humour, wit, and learning, that I fared like a distressed prince, who calls in a powerful neighbour to his aid ; 1 was undone by my auxiliary ; when I had Once called him in, I could not subsist without dependence... | |
 | Robert Chambers - 1830 - 844 pagina’s
...from Ireland, and after the SOlli number, became a regular contributor. ' I fared,' says Steele, ' ing pangs of conscious truth to hide, To quench the...ingenuous shame, Or heap the shrine of Luxury and onco called him in, I could not subsist without dependence on him.' Some of the most charming of Addison's... | |
 | 1831 - 704 pagina’s
...this nature. This good office he performed with such force of genius, humour, wit, and learning, that privileeo to renark, that Ihese Tho same hand writ the distinguishing characters of men and women under tho names of 'Musical Instruments,'... | |
 | Samuel Taylor Coleridge - 1836 - 274 pagina’s
...the other essayists of that day ; he denied that Steele was, as he himself said in a pleasantry, " like a distressed prince who calls in a powerful neighbour to his aid, and who, once in possession, became sovereign." Addison was necessary to give variety to the papers,... | |
 | 1838 - 728 pagina’s
...office towards him, he says ; "He performed it with such force of genius, humor, wit, and learning, that I fared like a distressed prince, who calls in a powerful...in, I could not subsist without dependence on him." He says, moreover, it would have been barbarous in Addison to deny this frequent assistance to one... | |
 | George Lillie Craik - 1841 - 540 pagina’s
...office," Steele generously adds, " he performed with such force of genius, humour, wit, and learning, that I fared like a distressed prince who calls in a powerful...in I could not subsist without dependence on him." By fur the greater part of the Tatler, however, is Steele's. Of 27 1 papers of which it consists, above... | |
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like a distressed prince who calls in a powerful neighbour to his aid. I was undone by my auxiliary. When I had once called him in, I could not subsist without dependence on him. 
