 I shall say the less of Mr. Collier, because in many things he has taxed me justly; and I have pleaded guilty to all thoughts and expressions of mine, which can be truly argued of obscenity, profaneness, or immorality, and retract them. If he be my enemy,...  The Works of John Dryden: Dramatic works - Page 498de John Dryden, Walter Scott - 1884Affichage du livre entier - À propos de ce livre
 | John Dryden - 1800 - 674 pages
...kindness to requite ; f One made the Doctor, and one dubb'd the Knight." J J See p. 596. n. 2. •. in the defence of a bad cause, when I have so often drawn it for a good one. Yet it were not difficult to prove, that in many places he has perverted my meaning by his glosses... | |
 | John Dryden - 1800 - 674 pages
...kindness to requite ; One made the Doctor, and one dubb'd the Knight 3 See p. 596. na - } light."-' in the defence of a bad cause, when I have so often drawn it for a good one. Yet it were not difficult to prove, that in many places he has perverted my meaning by his glosses... | |
 | John Bell - 1807 - 458 pages
...profaneness, or immorality ; and retract them. If he be my enemy, let him triumph ; if he be my fnend, as I have given him no personal occasion to be otherwise,...cause, when I have so often drawn it for a good one. Yet it were not difficult to prove, that in many places he has perverted my meaning by his glosses... | |
 | John Dryden, Walter Scott - 1808 - 506 pages
...he had the baseness not to acknowledge his benefactor, but, instead of it, to traduce me in a libel. I shall say the less of Mr Collier, because in many...cause, when I have so often drawn it for a good one. Yet it were not difficult to prove, that, in many places, he has perverted my meaning by his glosses,... | |
 | John Watkins - 1808 - 768 pages
...justly, and I have pleaded guilty to all thoughts and expressions of mine, which can be truly arraigned of obscenity, profaneness, or immorality, and retract...cause, when I have so often drawn it for a good one."' Having succeeded so well with Vrirgil, our poet turned his thoughts to a translation of Homer, of whom... | |
 | John Dryden, Walter Scott - 1808 - 476 pages
...will be glad of my repentance. It becomes me not to draw my pen in the defence of a bad cause, when 1 have so often drawn it for a good one." Preface to...published by Collier to the Vindications of Congreve and Vanburgh, who. less patient or prudent than our poet, had stepped forward to assert the correctness... | |
 | John Dryden - 1808 - 486 pages
...will be glad of my repentance. It becomes me not to draw my pen in the defence of a bad cause, when 1 have so often drawn it for a good one." Preface to...published by Collier to the Vindications of Congreve and Vanburgh, who. less patient or prudent than our poet, had stepped forward to assert the correctness... | |
 | John Dryden, Walter Scott - 1808 - 478 pages
...will be glad of my repentance. It becomes me not to draw my pen in the defence of a bad cause, when 1 have so often drawn it for a good one." Preface to...Answer published by Collier to the Vindications of Con^reve and Vanburgh, who. Jess patient or prudent than our poet, had stepped forward to assert the... | |
 | John Dryden, Walter Scott - 1808 - 564 pages
...he be my enemy, let him triumph ; if he be my friend, as I have given him no personal occasion to he otherwise, he will be glad of my repentance. It becomes...cause, when I have so often drawn it for a good one." To this manly and liberal admission, he has indeed tacked a complaint, that Collier had sometimes,... | |
 | David Phineas Adams, William Emerson, Samuel Cooper Thacher - 1809 - 446 pages
...taxed me justly, and I have pleaded guilty to all thoughts and expressions of mine, which may truly be argued of obscenity, profaneness or immorality, and...cause, when I have so often drawn it for a good one." Immediately after this controversy Dryden died, and on that event the following lines were printed,... | |
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