 | John Timbs - 1862 - 424 pages
...[keeper of the book-debts] without clean linen." Addison had not been consulted about the Taller ; but as soon as he heard of it, he determined to give his aid. The effect of that assistance cannot be better described than in Steele's own words. " I fared,"... | |
 | Joseph Addison - 1863 - 202 pages
..." 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 to his aid ; I was undone by my auxiliary ; and when I had once called him in, I could not subsist without dependence upon him." Sir Richard... | |
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1870 - 686 pages
...announced that Isaac Bickerstaff, Esquire, Astrologer, was about to publish a paper called the Tatler. Addison had not been consulted about this scheme;...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... | |
 | Joseph Addison - 1870 - 586 pages
...about to publish a paper called the " Tatler." 9 Addison had not been consulted about this scheme j 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.... | |
 | 1871 - 910 pages
...a powerful ally, and who 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... | |
 | Joseph Addison - 1875 - 760 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 Toiler Addison contributed a number of papers, which, if slighter than his better ones in the... | |
 | Joseph Addison - 1879 - 250 pages
...announced that Isaac Bickerstaff, Esquire, Astrologer, was about to publish a paper called the " Tatler." Addison had not been consulted about this scheme ;..." 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... | |
 | John Rouse Bloxam, Magdalen College (University of Oxford) - 1879 - 466 pages
...among British writers. In the spring of 1709 Steele determined to publish a paper called ' The Tatler.' Addison had not been consulted about this scheme, but as soon as he heard of it, he offered to give his assistance. It is probable that Addison, when he sent across St. George's Channel... | |
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1880 - 684 pages
...announced that Isaac Bickerstaff, Esquire, Astrologer, was about to publish a paper called the Tatler. Addison had not been consulted about this scheme;..." 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... | |
 | Famous people - 1883 - 552 pages
...consulted about the scheme, but, however he heard of it, he determined to lend his assistance. The effect cannot be better described than in Steele's own words. ''I fared," he says, "like a distressed prince who calls in a powerful neighbour to his aid. I was undone by my auxiliary.... | |
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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. 
