| Joseph Addison - 1875 - 584 páginas
...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 ; when I...called him in, I could not subsist without dependence on him.' The Tatler came to an end in the first week of 1711, and Addison had finally returned from... | |
| Joseph Addison - 1876 - 536 páginas
...of the work. " I fared," says Steele, "like a distressed Prince, who calls in a powerful neighbour to his aid ; I was undone by my auxiliary ; when I...I could not subsist without dependence upon him." Unfortunately he had not yet hit upon any way of distinguishing his own papers from those of other... | |
| Edward Arber - 1883 - 674 páginas
...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 ! When I...called him in, I could not subsist without dependence on him. The same Hand wrote the distinguishing Characters of Men and Women under the names of Musical... | |
| Joseph Addison - 1879 - 250 páginas
...cannot be better described than in Steele's own words. " I fared," he said, " like a distressed prince who calls in a powerful neighbor to his aid. I was...called him in, I could not subsist without dependence on him." " The paper," he says elsewhere, " was advanced indeed. It was raised to a greater thing than... | |
| Robert Chambers - 1879 - 428 páginas
...contributor. ' I fared,' says Steele, ' like a distressed prince who calls in a powerful neighbour to his aid : I was undone by my auxiliary ; when I...called him in, I could not subsist without dependence on him.' Some of the most charming of Addison's essays appear in the 'Tatler,' but Steele stamped its... | |
| Truman Jay Backus - 1897 - 508 páginas
...of the matter. Of this Steele made loyal recognition. "I fared," he said, "like a distressed prince, who calls in a powerful neighbor to his aid. I was undone by iny auxiliary. ... I could not subsist without dependence on him." Addison's papers are signed by one... | |
| Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1898 - 254 páginas
...cannot be better described than in Steele's own words. "I fared," he said, "like a distressed prince who calls in a powerful neighbor to his aid. I was...called him in, I could not subsist without dependence on him." "The paper," he says elsewhere, "was advanced indeed. It was raised to a greater thing than... | |
| SAMUEL THRBER - 1898 - 236 páginas
...performed with such force of genius, humor, wit, and learning, that I fared like a distressed prince, who calls in a powerful neighbor to his aid; I was...called him in, I could not subsist without dependence on him." Thus does Steele speak in closing the Tatler. How the two writers apportioned their work cannot... | |
| Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1898 - 164 páginas
...cannot be better described than in Steele's own words. "I fared," he said, "like a distressed prince who calls in a powerful neighbor to his aid. I was...called him in, I could not subsist without dependence on him." "The paper," he says elsewhere, "was advanced indeed. It was raised to a greater thing than... | |
| John Clark Ridpath - 1898 - 620 páginas
...began early to furnish papers for The Taller ; and, said Steele, " I fared like a distressed prince who calls in a powerful neighbor to his aid. I was...had once called him in, I could not subsist without him. The paper was advanced indeed. It was raised to a greater thing than I intended it." It was decided,... | |
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