 | 1855 - 624 pagina’s
...English tressed prince,' he said again, speaking of him in the preface to the Tatlers last volume, ' who calls in a powerful neighbour to his aid. I was...undone by my auxiliary. When I had once called him in, 1 could not subsist without dependence on him.' That Addison had changed the design of the paper he... | |
 | Joseph Addison - 1856 - 484 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. " The same hand writ the distinguishing characters of men and women, under the names of Musical Instruments,... | |
 | Joseph Addison - 1856 - 480 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. " The same hand writ the distinguishing characters of men and women, under the names of Musical Instruments,... | |
 | Joseph Addison - 1856 - 536 pagina’s
...and wants of the age. His papers soon became the chief ornament of the work. " I fared," says Steele, "like a distressed Prince, who calls in a powerful...called him in, I could not subsist without dependence upon him." Unfortunately he had not yet hit upon any way of distinguishing big own papers from those... | |
 | Samuel Taylor Coleridge - 1858 - 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,... | |
 | Joseph Addison, George Gilfillan - 1859 - 428 pagina’s
...Addison heard of this scheme, he readily lent his aid to it, and then, as honest Richard admits, " I fared like a distressed prince who calls in a powerful...neighbour to his aid, — I was undone by my auxiliary." To the Taller Addison contributed a number of papers, which, if slighter than his better ones in the... | |
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1860 - 1078 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 neighbour...in, I could not subsist without dependence on him." " The paper," he says elsewhere, " was advanced indeed. It was raised to • p'eater thing than I intended... | |
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1860 - 1088 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 neighbour...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... | |
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1860 - 588 pagina’s
...than in Steele's own words. " I fared,'' he said, " like a distressed prince who calls in a poverful neighbour to his aid. I was undone by my auxiliary....in, I could not subsist without dependence on him." " The paper," lie says elsewhere, " was advanced indeed. It was raised to a greater thing than I intended... | |
 | George Augustus Sala, Edmund Yates - 1874 - 588 pagina’s
...to Ireland, backed him up, certainly as early as the eighteenth paper. Steele says about Addison, " I was undone by my auxiliary. When I had once called...in I could not subsist without dependence on him." Addison wrote forty-one papers out of two hundred and seventy-one. Steele originated it, and also brought... | |
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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. 
