 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 Harvard Classics - Page 1821909Affichage du livre entier - À propos de ce livre
 | 1851 - 778 pages
...guilty to all thoughts and expressions et'mine, which can be truly argued of obscenity, profaneness, or immorality, and retract them. If he be my enemy, let...if he be my friend, as I have given him no personal reason to be otherwise, he will be glad of my repentance. It becomes me not to draw my pen in the defence... | |
 | University magazine - 1851 - 796 pages
...guilty to all thoughts and expressions ei mine, which can be truly argued of obscenity, profaneness, or immorality, and retract them. If he be my enemy, let...if he be my friend, as I have given him no personal reason to be otherwise, he will be glad of my repentance. It becomes me not to draw my pen in the defence... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1854 - 472 pages
...guilty to all thoughts or expressions of mine which can be truly argued of obscenity, profancness, or immorality, and retract them. If he be my enemy, let...personal occasion to be otherwise, he will be glad of my repentance."137 Yet as our best dispositions are imperfect, 136 Preface to Fables, 1700. 137 He hud... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1854 - 468 pages
...guilty to all thougbte or expressions of mine which can be truly argued of obscenity, profaneness, or immorality, and retract them. If he be my enemy, let...personal occasion to be otherwise, he will be glad of my repentance."137 Yet as our best dispositions are imperfect, 136 Preface to Fables, 1700. 117 He had... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1854 - 346 pages
...thoughts or expressions of mine that can be truly accused of obscenity, immorality, or profaneness, and retract them. If he be my enemy, let him triumph ; if he be my friend, he will be glad of my repentance." Yet, as our best dispositions are imperfect, he left standing in... | |
 | John Dryden - 1855 - 380 pages
...mine, which can be truly argued of obscenity, profaneness, or immorality ; and retract them. If lie be my enemy, let him triumph ; if he be my friend,...repentance. It becomes me not to draw my pen in the defence of a bad cause, when I have so often drawn it for a good one. Yet it were not difficult to... | |
 | John Henry Cardwell - 1898 - 336 pages
...Gerrard Street, as "the Poet," to say of his antagonist : " If Mr. Collier be my enemy, let him trinmph. If he be my friend, as I have given him no personal...to be otherwise, he will be glad of my repentance." In the same strain Dryden expresses himself in verse (he had been accused of bringing ridicule upon... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1899 - 216 pages
...thoughts or expressions of mine that can be truly accused of obscenity, immorality, or profaneness, and retract them. If he be my enemy, let him triumph ; if he be my friend, he will be glad of my repentance." Yet as our best dispositions are imperfect, he left standing in... | |
 | Joseph Addison - 1901 - 252 pages
...the stage. Dryden confessed his sins in manly fashion : " In many things he has taxed me justly. ... If he be my enemy, let him triumph ; if he be my friend, .... he will be glad of my repentance." The fashionable circles no longer found an example of ill living... | |
 | John Dryden - 1900 - 348 pages
...to all thoughts and expressions of mine, which to can be truly argued of obscenity, profaneness, or immorality, and retract them. If he be my enemy, let...repentance. It becomes me not to draw my pen in the 2.i defence of a bad cause, when I have so often drawn it for a good one. Yet it were not difficult... | |
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