 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,...  Essays and Lays of Ancient Rome - Stran 597avtor: Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1895 - 923 straniCelotni ogled - O knjigi
 | Samuel Johnson - 1854 - 472 strani
...of mine which can be truly argued of obscenity, profancness, or immorality, and retract them. If he be my enemy, let him triumph ; if he be my friend,...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 strani
...of mine which can be truly argued of obscenity, profaneness, or immorality, and retract them. If he be my enemy, let him triumph ; if he be my friend,...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... | |
 | Thomas Babington baron Macaulay - 1866 - 734 strani
...archangel at the rebuke of Zephon, — " And felt how awful goodness is, and saw Virtue in her shape how lovely ; saw and pined His loss." At a later period...personal occasion to be otherwise, he will be glad of nay repentance." It would have been wise in Congreve to follow his master's example. He was precisely... | |
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1870 - 686 strani
...archangel at the rebuke of Zephon, — 41 And felt how awful goodness is, and saw Virtue in her shape how lovely ; saw and pined His loss." At a later period...which it is madness to attempt a vindication ; for Iils guilt was so clear, that no address or eloquence could obtain an acquittal. On the other hand,... | |
 | John Dryden - 1897 - 764 strani
...mine, which can be truly argued of obscenity, profaneness, or immorality ; and retract them. If he be my enemy, let him triumph ; if he be my friend,...be otherwise, he will be glad 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... | |
 | Hippolyte Taine - 1871 - 586 strani
...of mine which can be truly argued of obscenity, profaneness, or immorality, and retract them. If he be my enemy, let him triumph ; if he be my friend,...to be otherwise, he will be glad of my repentance.' * t There is some wit in what follows : ' He (Collier) is too much given to horseplay in his raillery,... | |
 | Hippolyte Adolphe Taine - 1871 - 570 strani
...of mine which can be truly argued of obscenity, profaneness, or immorality, and retract them. If he be my enemy, let him triumph ; if he be my friend,...him no personal occasion to be otherwise, he will be gkd of my repentance.' 4 There is some wit in what follows : ' He (Collier) is too much given to horseplay... | |
 | Henry Morley - 1873 - 964 strani
...of mine which can be truly argued of obscenity, profaneness, or immorality, and retract them. If he be my enemy, let him triumph ; if he be my friend,...be otherwise, he will be glad 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... | |
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1873 - 728 strani
...reproved. " If," said he, " Mr. Collier be my enemy, let him triumph. If he be my friend, as I hare given him no personal occasion to be otherwise, he...repentance." It would have been wise in Congreve to follow hia master's example. He was precisely in that situation in which it is madness to attempt a vindication... | |
 | John Dryden - 1874 - 740 strani
...mine, which can be truly argued of obscenity, profaneness, or immorality ; and retract them. If he be my enemy, let him triumph ; if he be my friend,...be otherwise, he will be glad of my repentance. It becomes me not to draw my pen in the defence of a biid cause, when I have so often drawn it for a good... | |
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