 | Sir Richard Steele - 1786 - 516 pages
...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 pages
...laughter. Steele determined to employ the name which this controversy had made popular ; and, in April 1709, it was announced that Isaac Bickerstaff, Esquire,...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 pages
...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 pages
...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 pages
...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.... | |
 | Tobias Merton (pseud) - 1824 - 480 pages
..." 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... | |
 | Tobias Merton - 1824 - 488 pages
..." 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... | |
 | Vicesimus Knox - 1824 - 598 pages
...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.... | |
 | 1829 - 804 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 ; 1 was undone by my auxiliary ; when I had Once called him in, I could not subsist without dependence... | |
 | Robert Chambers - 1830 - 844 pages
...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. 
