 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.  The Quarterly Review - Página 5251855Visualização completa - Sobre este livro
 | James Hain Friswell - 1869 - 498 páginas
...said Steele, always modest and ready to praise others rather than himself, " 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 I could not do without dependence on him." Addison's style is indeed simple, beautiful, clear, and... | |
 | Kate Sanborn - 1869 - 306 páginas
...never jealous. " I ' fared," he says, " like a distressed prince, who calls in a powerful neighbor to his aid ; I was undone by my auxiliary ; when I had once called him in, I qpuld not subsist without dependence on him." And again : " I rejoiced in being excelled; and made... | |
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1870 - 686 páginas
...words. " I fared," he said, " 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 on him." " The paper," he says elsewhere, " was advanced indeed.... | |
 | 1871 - 930 páginas
...bears away the whole glory of the campaign. His words are : — " I fared like a distressed prince who calls in a powerful neighbour to his aid : I was undone by my auxiliary ; and when I had once called him in, I could not subsist without dependence on him." The worst of this... | |
 | William Makepeace Thackeray - 1872 - 660 páginas
...generously complimenting Addison for his assistance in the Tatler, — " I fared 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." Poor, needy Prince of Bloomsbury ! think of him in... | |
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1873 - 718 páginas
...cannot be better described than in Steele's own words. " I fared," he said, " 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." " The paper," he says elsewhere, " was advanced indeed.... | |
 | Austin Dobson - 1874 - 332 páginas
...frank generosity which is characteristic of him : — ' I fared,' he says, ' 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.' * The Taller reached 271 papers (the last of which... | |
 | 1874 - 752 páginas
...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 him in I could not subsist without dependence on him." Addison wrote forty-one papers out of two hundred and... | |
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1874 - 1100 páginas
...cannot be better described than in Steele's own words. " I fared," he said, " like a distressed prince who calls in a powerful neighbour to his aid. I was undone bv my auxiliary. When I had once called him in, I could not subsist without dependence on him." " The... | |
 | Joseph Addison - 1875 - 584 páginas
...Tatler ' 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 ; when I had once called him in, I could not subsist without dependence on him.' The Tatler came to an end in the first week of 1711,... | |
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