 | Edward Isidore Sears - 1865 - 858 pages
...Of this assistance Steele says : " I fared 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." This was partly true, for Addison's superior genius soon hid the... | |
 | 1865 - 838 pages
...Of this assistance Steele says : " I fared 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." This was partly true, for Addison's superior genius soon hid the... | |
 | Scotland - 1866 - 826 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." The 'Tatler' was in full prosperity when Steele, without consultmg... | |
 | Thomas Babington baron Macaulay - 1866 - 730 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... | |
 | 1866 - 848 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." The ' Tatler ' was in full prosperity when Steele,. without consulting... | |
 | Richard Robert Madden - English newspapers - 1867 - 442 pages
...contributed some numbers, which good-natured Steele acknowledged with his habitual unselfishness — ' I was undone by my auxiliary. When I had once called him in, I could not subsist without dependence on him.' Swift, Congreve, and others of less note, aided Steele, but in... | |
 | William Makepeace Thackeray - England - 1869 - 410 pages
...writes, generously complimenting Addison for his assistance in the Tatkr, — " 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 - 1869 - 410 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 - 1869 - 414 pages
...generously complimenting Addison for his assistance in the Taller, — " 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 - England - 1869 - 414 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,... | |
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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. 
