 | Sir Richard Steele - 1786 - 516 páginas
...office he performed with fuch force of genius, humour, wit, and learning, that E fared like a diftrefied Prince, who calls in a powerful neighbour to his aid ; I was undone by my * TATL. N° 138. t TATL. N« 9. •JTATI,. NO it.; N° 75. § TATL<N° 193. || The veil of fecrecy... | |
 | 1843 - 586 páginas
...announced that Isaac Bickerstaff, Esquire, Astrologer, was about to publish a paper called the ' Taller.' 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.... | |
 | Thomas Mortimer - 1808 - 496 páginas
...discovery led him to farther assistances, insomuch, that as Steele well expressed, he fared by this means like a distressed prince who calls in a powerful neighbour to his aid 5 that is, he was undone by his auxiliary. Such was the superiority of Mr. Addiscn's genius, and so... | |
 | James Ferguson - 1819 - 340 páginas
...assistance which Addison gave him, " 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." Addison, indeed, added gravity and dignity to the work, which has conferred on it a permanent value.... | |
 | Vicesimus Knox - 1821 - 322 páginas
...assistance which Addison gave him, "with such force of genius, humour, wit, and learnmg, that I fared like a distressed prince who calls in a powerful neighbour to his aid : I was undone by my auxiliary." Addison, indeed, added gravity and dignity to the work, which has conferred on it a permanent value.... | |
 | Vicesimus Knox - 1824 - 598 páginas
...assistance which Addison gave him, " 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." Addison, indeed, added gravity and dignity to the work, which has conferred on it a permanent value.... | |
 | Tobias Merton - 1824 - 488 páginas
..." 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." In the Spectator, Addison appeared to still greater advantage : here, being released from the desultory... | |
 | Tobias Merton (pseud) - 1824 - 480 páginas
..." This good office he performed with such force of genius, humour, wit, ana learning, that I fared like a distressed prince, who calls in a powerful...neighbour to his aid — I was undone by my auxiliary." • In the Spectator, Addison appeared to still greater advantage: here, being released from the desultory... | |
 | 1829 - 804 páginas
...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 ; 1 was undone by my auxiliary ; when I had Once called him in, I could not subsist without dependence... | |
 | Robert Chambers - 1830 - 844 páginas
...from Ireland, and after the SOlli number, became a regular contributor. ' I fared,' says Steele, ' ing pangs of conscious truth to hide, To quench the...ingenuous shame, Or heap the shrine of Luxury and onco called him in, I could not subsist without dependence on him.' Some of the most charming of Addison's... | |
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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. 
