 | Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1853 - 596 pages
...announced that Isaac Bickerstaff, Esquire, Astrologer, was about to publish a paper called the Tatler. Addison had not been consulted about this scheme :...be better described than in Steele's own words. " I VOL. m. DD fared," he said, " like a distressed prince who calls in a powerful neighbour to his aid.... | |
 | Joseph Addison - 1853 - 600 pages
...announced that Isaac Bickerstaff, Esquire, Astrologer, was about to publish a paper called the " Tatler." 9 Addison had not been consulted about this scheme ;...but as soon as he heard of it he determined to give it his assistance. The effect of that assistance cannot be better described than in Steelc's own words.... | |
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay (baron [essays]) - 1854 - 452 pages
...announced that Isaac BickerstafT, Esquire, Astrologer, was about to publish a paper called the Tatlcr. Addison had not been consulted about this scheme :...prince who calls in a powerful neighbour to his aid. I wae undone by my auxiliary. When I had once called him in, I could not subsist without dependence on... | |
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1854 - 464 pages
...had not been consulted about this scheme ; but as soon as he heard of it, he determined to give it his assistance. The effect of that assistance cannot...distressed prince who calls in a powerful neighbour to hia aid. I was undone by my auxiliary. When I had once called him in, I could not subsist without dependence... | |
 | Joseph Addison - 1854 - 584 pages
...announced that Isaac Bickerstaff, Esquire, Astrologer, was about to publish a paper called the " Tatler." 9 Addison had not been consulted about this scheme ;...but as soon as he heard of it he determined to give it his assistance. The effect of that assistance cannot be better described than in Steele's own words.... | |
 | Joseph Addison - 1853 - 600 pages
...announced that Isaac Bickerstaff, Esquire, Astrologer, was about to publish a paper called the " Tatler." 9 Addison had not been consulted about this scheme ;...but as soon as he heard of it he determined to give it his assistance. The effect of that assistance cannot be better described than in Steele's own words.... | |
 | Samuel Taylor Coleridge - 1858 - 274 pages
...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 pages
...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... | |
 | Robert Demaus - 1860 - 202 pages
...contributed largely, and wrote with such excellence, that Steele (to use his own happy words) " fared like a distressed prince who calls in a powerful neighbour to his aid. He was undone by his auxiliary. When he had once asked him in, he could not subsist without dependence... | |
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1861 - 468 pages
...was about to publish a paper ealled the " Taller." Addison had not been eonsulted about this seheme ; but as soon as he heard of it, he determined to give it his assistanee. The effeet of that assistanee eannot be better deseribed than in Steele's own words.... | |
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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 could not subsist without dependence on him. 
