| 1872 - 862 páginas
...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 páginas
...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... | |
| 1846 - 386 páginas
...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...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... | |
| Lucy Aikin - 1846 - 290 páginas
...thus afforded him : " 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...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,... | |
| 1853 - 842 páginas
...generously complimenting Addison for his assistance in the ' Tatler,' — ' I fared like a distresssed prince, who calls in a powerful neighbour to his aid....in, I could not subsist without dependence on him." Poor, needy Prince of Bloomsbury ! think of him in his palace, with his allies from Chancerylane ominously... | |
| 1876 - 706 páginas
...in a powerful neighbour to hi« aid. I wae undone by my auxiliary. When I had once called him in, 1 could not subsist without dependence on him.' ' The paper.' he says elsewhere, ' waj advanced indeed. It was raised to a greater thing than I intended it.' " The first quotation... | |
| Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1850 - 332 páginas
...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...was raised to a greater thing than I intended it." It is probable that Addison, when he sent across St. George's Channel his first contributions to the... | |
| 1876 - 602 páginas
...effect of that assistance cannot be better described than in Steele's own words. ' I fared,' he paid, ' like a distressed prince who calls in a powerful neighbour to his aid. I wa» undone by my auxiliary. When I had once called him in, 1 could not subsist without dependence... | |
| William Makepeace Thackeray - 1853 - 332 páginas
...prodigal writes, generously complimenting Addison for his assistance in the " Tatler," — " I fared like a distressed prince, who calls in a powerful...in, I could not subsist without dependence on him." Poor, needy Prince of Bloomsbury ! think of him in his palace, with his allies from Chancerylane ominously... | |
| William Makepeace Thackeray - 1853 - 360 páginas
...prodigal writes, generously complimenting Addison for his assistance in the " Tatler," — " I fared like a distressed prince, who calls in a powerful...in, I could not subsist without dependence on him." Poor, needy Prince of Bloomsbury ! think of him in his palace, with his allies from Chancery-lane ominously... | |
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