| William John Courthope - 1884 - 202 pages
...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 to his aid ; I was undone by my own auxiliary ; when I had once called him in I could not subsist without dependence on him." With... | |
| 1885 - 502 pages
...effect of Addison's papers was very great. ' I fared,' said Steele in the preface to the final volume, ' like a distressed prince who calls in a powerful neighbour to his aid. I was undone by my auxiliary ; when 1 had once called him in, I could not subsist without dependence on him.' Forty-one i papers are attributed... | |
| Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1892 - 200 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... | |
| Joseph Addison - 1892 - 358 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... | |
| Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1892 - 142 pages
...announced that Isaac Bickerstaff, Esquire, Astrologer, was about to publish a paper called the Tatler. Addison had not been consulted about this scheme:...heard of it, he determined to give his assistance. 15 The effect of that assistance cannot be better described than in Steele's own words. " I fared,"... | |
| Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1893 - 244 pages
...announced that Isaac Bickerstaff, Esquire, Astrologer, was about to publish a paper called the Tatler. 15 Addison had not been consulted about this scheme ;..." like a distressed prince who calls in a powerful 20 neighbor to his aid. I was undone by my auxiliary. When I had once called him in, I could not subsist... | |
| Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1893 - 222 pages
...announced that Isaac Bickerstaff, Esquire, Astrologer, was about to publish a paper called the Tatler. 15 Addison had not been consulted about this scheme ;..." like a distressed prince who calls in a powerful 20 neighbor to his aid. I was undone by my auxiliary. When I had once called him in, I could not subsist... | |
| Joseph Addison - 1894 - 358 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... | |
| Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1894 - 128 pages
...announced that Isaac Bickerstaff, Esq., 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... | |
| Franklin Verzelius Newton Painter - 1894 - 688 pages
...few weeks after its first issue he began a series of contributions. The result may be best expressed in Steele's own words. " I fared," he said, " 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... | |
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