| Sir Henry Craik - 1894 - 648 strani
...of verse, to punish and make examples of the bad' (From Dedication Mo Juvenal.) DRYDEN AND COLLIER 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 Churton Collins - 1895 - 400 strani
...expected, and, considering the provocation received, what meekness itself might have expected, I shall Bay the less of Mr. Collier, because in many things he...taxed me justly; and I have pleaded guilty to all O thoughts and expressions of mine which can be truly argued of obscenity, profaneness, or immorality,... | |
| John Dryden - 1900 - 348 strani
...had the baseness not to acknow15 ledge his benefactor, but instead of it, to traduce me in a libel. I shall say the less of Mr. Collier, because in many...guilty 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,... | |
| Goodloe Harper Bell - 1900 - 612 strani
...Collier wrote against the immorality of Dryden's plays, Dryden wrote in reply, "I shall say the less, 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 - 1900 - 140 strani
...given by my loose writings ; and make what reparation I am able by this public acknowledgment. . . . I have pleaded guilty to all thoughts and expressions of mine which can be truly argued of obscenity, profaneness, or immorality ; and retract them. SUGGESTIONS Palamon and Arcite... | |
| John Dryden - 1900 - 140 strani
...given by my loose writings; and make what reparation I am able by this public acknowledgment. . . . I have pleaded guilty to all thoughts and expressions of mine which can be truly argued of obscenity, profaneness, or immorality; and retract them. SUGGESTIONS Palamon and Arcite may... | |
| Hippolyte Taine - 1900 - 518 strani
...things he has faxed me justly; and *> Scott's " Life of Dryden," i. 449. a " Essay on Satire," xiii. 80. I have pleaded guilty to all thoughts and expressions of mine which can be truly argued obscenity, profaneness, or immorality, and retract them. If he be my enemy, let him triumph... | |
| Hippolyte Taine - 1900 - 496 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 things he has faxed me justly; and 18 Letter 23, " to his sons at Rome," » Scott's " Life of Dryden," i. 449. xviii.... | |
| Henry Morley - 1912 - 1214 strani
...the impertinences of Sir Richard Blackmore ; but of Jeremy Collier he wrote, " I shall say the less, ry," he said, " as if the original fault had been my fault, because myself argued of obscenity, profaneness, or immorality, and retract them. If he be my enemy, let him triumph... | |
| 1901 - 928 strani
...noble honesty that he had been justly e-eproved. I ¿ shall say the less of Mr Collier,' he says, ‘ because in many things he has taxed me justly; and I have pleaded guilty to all thoughets and expressions of neine which can be truly argued of obscenity, profaneness, or immorality,... | |
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