 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 General Biographical Dictionary - Stran 49uredili: - 1813Celotni ogled - O knjigi
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1897 - 726 strani
...whole, he frankly acknowledged that he had been justly reproved. " If," said he, " Mr. Collier be ray enemy, let him triumph. If he be my friend, as I have...be otherwise, he will be glad of my repentance." It would have been wise in Congreve to follow his master's example. He was precisely in that situation... | |
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1898 - 684 strani
...the whole, he frankly acknowledged that he had been justly reproved. " If," said he, " Mr. Collier be my enemy, let him triumph. If he be my friend,...be otherwise, he will be glad of my repentance." It would have been wise in Congreve to follow his master's example. He was precisely in that situation... | |
 | John Henry Cardwell - 1898 - 336 strani
...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 strani
...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 strani
...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 strani
...justly ; and I have pleaded guilty to all thoughts and expressions of mine, which to can be truly argued of obscenity, profaneness, or immorality, and retract...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... | |
 | Goodloe Harper Bell - 1900 - 612 strani
...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...repentance. It becomes me not to draw my pen in the defense of a bad cause, when I have so often drawn it for a good one." Dryden was a complete master... | |
 | John Dryden - 1900 - 760 strani
...guilty to all thoughts and expressions of mine, which can be truly argued of obscenity, profanencss, or immorality; and retract them. If he be my enemy,...to be otherwise, he will be glad of my repentance. Qt becomes me not to draw my pen in the defence of a bad cause, when I have so often drawn it for a... | |
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1900 - 822 strani
...on the whole, he frankly acknowledged that he had been justly reproved. " If," said he, "Mr. Collier be my enemy, let him triumph. If he be my friend, as I have given him no personal occasion to be othersvise, he will be glad of my repentance." It would have been wise in Congreve to follow his master's... | |
 | 1901 - 928 strani
...justly; and I have pleaded guilty to all thoughets and expressions of neine which can be truly argued of obscenity, profaneness, or immorality, and retract...them. if he be my enemy, let him triumph ; if he be ney friend, as I have given him no personal occasion tO be otherwise, lee will be glad of my repentance.... | |
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