 | John Holmes Agnew - American periodicals - 1843 - 614 pages
...Steele's own words. ' 1 fired,' he said, ' like a distressed prince who calls in a powerful neighbor to his aid. I was undone by my auxiliary. When I had ooce called him in, I could not subsist without dependence on him.' 'The paper,' he says elsewhere,... | |
 | George Lillie Craik - English language - 1845 - 484 pages
..." he performed with such force " genius, humour, wit, and learning, that I fared like a distressed prince who calls in a powerful neighbour to his aid...auxiliary ; when I had once called him in, I could not subsist without dependence on him." By far the greater part of the Tatler, however, is Steelc's. Of... | |
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - Great Britain - 1844 - 446 pages
...assistance 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....auxiliary. When I had once called him in, I could not subsist without dependence on him." " The paper," he says elsewhere, " was advanced indeed. It was... | |
 | American periodicals - 1872 - 862 pages
...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 had once called him in, I could not subsist without dependence upon him." In another place (this after A'ldi-on's death) he says : " I... | |
 | United States. Congress - Law - 1844 - 440 pages
...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,... | |
 | 1846 - 386 pages
...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...auxiliary ; when I had once called him in, I could not subsist without dependence on him." Yet Addison's contributions to the ' Tatler ' scarcely amount to... | |
 | Lucy Aikin - 1846 - 290 pages
...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 had once called him in, I could not subsist without dependence on him." And again referring to Tickell's expression, that the reputation... | |
 | Literature - 1853 - 842 pages
...generously complimenting Addison for his assistance in the ' Tatler,' — ' I fared like a distresssed prince, who calls in a powerful neighbour to his aid....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 his palace,... | |
 | Literature - 1853 - 436 pages
...generously complimenting Addison for his assistance in the " Tatler,"—"I fared like a distressed prince, who calls in a powerful neighbour to his aid....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 his palace,... | |
 | William Makepeace Thackeray - English literature - 1853 - 332 pages
...generously complimenting Addison for his assistance in the "Tatler,"— "I fared like a distressed prince, who calls in a powerful neighbour to his aid....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 his palace, with... | |
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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. 
