| George Hogarth - 1851 - 394 strani
...himself. " I shall say the less of Mr. Collier," said the veteran poet, in the preface to his Fables, " because in many things he has taxed me justly ; and...thoughts and expressions of mine, which can be truly argued of obscenity, profaneness, or immorality, and retract them. If he be my enemy, let him triumph... | |
| John Dryden - 1854 - 350 strani
...stead of it, to traduce me in a libel. I shall say the less of Mr. Collier, because in many tilings he has taxed me justly; and I have pleaded guilty...thoughts and expressions of mine, which can be truly argued of obscenity, profaneness, or immorality; and retract them. If he be my enemy, let him triumph... | |
| John Dryden - 1854 - 318 strani
...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 things he * In this notice of Collier, Dryden deals leniently with his assailant. But Dryden had the worst side... | |
| John Dryden - 1859 - 480 strani
...henefactor ; hut instead of it, to traduce me in a lihel I shall say the less of Mr. Collier, hecause in many things he has taxed me justly ; and I have...to all thoughts and expressions of mine, which can he truly argued of ohscenity, profaneness, or immorality : and retract them. If he he my enemy, let... | |
| Hippolyte Taine - 1863 - 738 strani
...seule « difficulté est de choisir ou de rejeter parmi elles *. » 1 . I shall say the less of M' Collier, because in many things he has taxed me justly; and I have pleaded guilty to ail thoughts or expressions of mine, which can ba truly argued of obscenity, profaneness, or immorality;... | |
| John Dryden - 1866 - 326 strani
...subsequent preface to his Fables observes, " I shall say the less of Mr. Collier, because in many things he taxed me justly ; and I have pleaded guilty to all thoughts and expressions of mine, which canbe truly argued of obscenity, profaneness, or immorality, and retract them. If he be my enemy let... | |
| John Dryden - 1867 - 556 strani
...though ho had the baseness not to acknowledge his benefactor ; but instead of it, to traduce me ha libel b b b argued of obscenity, prof.meness, or immorality ; and retract them. If ho be my enemy, let him triumph... | |
| Walter Scott, J. M. W. (Joseph Mallord William) Turner - 1869 - 486 strani
...magnanimity to acknowledge its justice. In the preface to the Fables, he makes the amende honorable. " I shall say the less of Mr Collier, because in many...thoughts and expressions of mine, which can be truly argued of obscenity, profaneness, or immorality, and retrai't them If he be my enemy, let him triumph... | |
| Hippolyte Adolphe Taine - 1871 - 570 strani
...corrupter of morals, he endured this coarse reproof, and nobly confessed the faults of his youth : ' I shall say the less of Mr. Collier, because in many...thoughts and expressions of mine which can be truly argued of obscenity, profaneness, or immorality, and retract them. If he be my enemy, let him triumph... | |
| John Dryden - 1897 - 764 strani
...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...thoughts and expressions of mine, which can be truly argued of obscenity, profaneness, or immorality ; and retract them. If he be my enemy, let him triumph... | |
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