| 1843 - 586 pages
...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.... | |
| Alexander Chalmers - 1803 - 496 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 ; I was undone by my auxiliary ; when I had once called him in, I could not subsist without dependance... | |
| 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... | |
| Sir Richard Steele - 1809 - 384 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. I was undone by my auxiliary. When I had once called him in, I could not subsist without dependence on... | |
| Joseph Addison, Richard Hurd - 1811 - 500 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 ; I was undone by my auxiliary : when I had once called him in, I could not subsist without dependance... | |
| Joseph Addison - 1811 - 488 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 ; I was undone by my auxiliary : when I had once called him in, I could not subsist without dependance... | |
| Nathan Drake - 1814 - 494 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 ; I was undone by my auxiliary ; when I had once called him in, I could not subsist without dependauce... | |
| 1866 - 830 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 ; when I had once called him in, I could not subsist without dependence... | |
| Alexander Chalmers - 1817 - 390 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; I was undone by my auxiliary; when I had once called him in, I could not subsist without dependence on... | |
| 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... | |
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