 | Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge (Great Britain) - 1842 - 456 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...in, I could not subsist without dependence on him." Yet Addison's contributions to the " Tatler " scarcely amount to a fourth part of Steele's. We may... | |
 | 1843 - 590 pagina’s
...effect of that assistance cannot be better described than in Steele's own words. ' I fared,' he said, like a distressed prince ' who calls in a powerful...' by my auxiliary. When I had once called him in, 1 could not ' subsist without dependence on him.' ' The paper,' he says elsewhere, ' was advanced indeed.... | |
 | Lucy Aikin - 1843 - 302 pagina’s
...some political essays. Hn»»m»,mt..~ A ,^U^Kr Lim^lf.nH hi« writing ...I.!,.). l,n Hn.l' !ll Til I neighbour to his aid ; I was undone by my auxiliary....in, I could not subsist without dependence on him." And again referring to Tickell's expression, that the reputation of the Tatler was "advanced" by Addison,... | |
 | John Holmes Agnew, Eliakim Littell - 1843 - 614 pagina’s
...Steele's own words. ' 1 fared,' he said, ' like a distressed prince who calls in a powerful neighbor to his aid. I was undone by my auxiliary. When I had...in, I could not subsist without dependence on him.' 'The paper,' he says elsewhere, 'was advanced indeed, It was raised to a greater thing than I intended... | |
 | Lucy Aikin - 1843 - 278 pagina’s
...distressed prince who calls in a powerful THE TATLER. 3 neighbour to his aid ; I was undone by niy auxiliary. When I had once called him in, I could not subsist without dependence on him." And again referring to Tickell's expression, that the reputation of the Tatler was "advanced" by Addison,... | |
 | John Holmes Agnew - 1843 - 614 pagina’s
...Steele's own words. ' 1 fired,' he said, ' like a distressed prince who calls in a powerful neighbor to his aid. I was undone by my auxiliary. When I had ooce called him in, I could not subsist without dependence on him.' 'The paper,' he says elsewhere,... | |
 | George Lillie Craik - 1845 - 484 pagina’s
...office," Steele generously adds, " he performed with such force " 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 far the greater part of the Tatler, however, is Steelc's. Of 271 papers of which it consists, above... | |
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1844 - 446 pagina’s
...effect of that assistance cannot be better described than in Steele's own words. "I fared," he said, "like a distressed prince who calls in a powerful...in, I could not subsist without dependence on him." " The paper," he says elsewhere, " was advanced indeed. It was raised to a greater thing than I intended... | |
 | 1872 - 862 pagina’s
...humour, wit, a. id learning, that I fared like a distressed prince who calls in a powerful nvipibour to his aid ; I was undone by my auxiliary. When I...called him in, I could not subsist without dependence upon him." In another place (this after A'ldi-on's death) he says : " I rejoiced in being excelled,... | |
 | United States. Congress - 1844 - 440 pagina’s
...Spectator. "I fared," he said, "like a distressed prince who calls in a foreign neighbor to his aid; 1 waa undone by my auxiliary. When I had once called him in, I could not subsist without dependence upon him." The importance of Texas to us as a means of military defence, r.nd its consequent intimate... | |
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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. 
