 | Samuel Johnson - 1854 - 472 strani
...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,...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 - 346 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... | |
 | John Dryden - 1855 - 380 strani
...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,...of my 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... | |
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1856 - 128 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, as I have given him no personal occasion to te otherwise, he will be glad of my repentance." It would have been wise in Congreve to follow his... | |
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1860 - 450 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... | |
 | 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.... | |
 | Robert Chambers - 1902 - 860 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...of my 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.' But Dryden complained,... | |
 | Robert Chambers - 1902 - 864 strani
...justly ; and I have pleaded guilty to all thoughts and expressions of mine which can be truly argued of ning himself to a term so short. The presages of discovering...sounding line readied the bottom, and the soil which in the defence of a bad cause, when I have so often drawn it for a good one.' But Dryden complained,... | |
 | William Congreve - 1903 - 540 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 Dryden - 1904 - 762 strani
...guilty to all thoughts and expressions of mine, which can be truly argued of obscenity, profatiencss, or immorality ; and retract them. If he be my enemy,...personal occasion to be otherwise, he will be glad of my re|>entance. It becomes me not to draw my pen in the defence of a bad cause, when I have so often drawn... | |
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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,... 
