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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. "
Critical and historical essays, contributed to The Edinburgh review - Página 340
por Thomas Babington Macaulay (baron [essays]) - 1854
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The Edinburgh Review: Or Critical Journal, Volumen78

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....
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The British Essayists: The Tatler

Alexander Chalmers - 1803 - 496 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 ; I was undone by my auxiliary ; when I had once called him in, I could not subsist without dependance...
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The British Plutarch [by T. Mortimer].

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...
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Letters

Sir Richard Steele - 1809 - 384 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. I was undone by my auxiliary. When I had once called him in, I could not subsist without dependence on...
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A discourse on ancient and modern learning. The drummer; or, The haunted ...

Joseph Addison, Richard Hurd - 1811 - 500 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 ; I was undone by my auxiliary : when I had once called him in, I could not subsist without dependance...
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The Works of the Right Honourable Joseph Addison, Volumen6

Joseph Addison - 1811 - 488 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 ; I was undone by my auxiliary : when I had once called him in, I could not subsist without dependance...
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Essays, Biographical, Critical and Historical, Illustrative of the ..., Volumen3

Nathan Drake - 1814 - 494 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 ; I was undone by my auxiliary ; when I had once called him in, I could not subsist without dependauce...
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Blackwood's Magazine, Volumen99

1866 - 830 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 ; when I had once called him in, I could not subsist without dependence...
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The Tatler; corrected from the originals, with a preface ..., Volumen1

Alexander Chalmers - 1817 - 390 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; I was undone by my auxiliary; when I had once called him in, I could not subsist without dependence on...
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The British Essayists: Knox's essays

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...
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