 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, let him triumph; if he be my friend, as I have given him no personal occasion to be...  The Works of the English Poets: Dryden - Sivu 43tekijä(t) Samuel Johnson - 1779Koko teos - Tietoja tästä kirjasta
 | John Dryden - 1713 - 614 sivua
...them. If he be my Enemy, let him triumph * if he be my Friend, as 1 have given him noPerfonal Occafion to be otherwife, he will be glad of my Repentance. It becomes roe not to draw my Pen in the Defence of a bad Caufe, when I have fo often drawn it for a good one.... | |
 | John Dryden - 1760 - 526 sivua
...them. If he be my enemy, let him triumph ; if he be my friend, as I have given him no peribnal occafion to be otherwife, he will be glad of my repentance....becomes me not to draw my pen in the defence of a bad cauie, when I have fo often drawn it for a good one. Yet it were not difficult to prove, that in many... | |
 | 1761 - 614 sivua
...If he be my enemy, let him triumph ; if he be my friend, " as 1 have given him no perlbnal occafion to be otherwife, " he will be glad of my repentance....caufe, when I " have fo often drawn it for a good one." If mr. CongreveDrydsn's ?nd fir John Vanbrugh had taken the fame method with mr. preface to L/iyden,... | |
 | New and general biographical dictionary - 1761 - 600 sivua
...If he be my enemy, let him triumph ; if he be my friend, " as I have given him no perfonal occafion to be otherwife, " he will be glad of my repentance....caufe, when I " have fo often drawn it for a good one." If mr. CongreveDryden'j and fir John Vanbru^h had taken the fame method with mr. preface to Dryden,... | |
 | Robert Anderson - 1795 - 806 sivua
...them. If he be my enemy, let him triumph ; if he be my friend, t> 1 have given him no personal occaCon to be otherwife, he will be glad of my repentance. It becomes me not to draw my pen in defence of a bad caufe, when I have fo often drawn it for a good one. Yet it were not difficult to... | |
 | Robert Anderson - 1795 - 842 sivua
...enemy, let him triumph ; if he be my friend, fc llu« |tven him no perfonal occafien tobe other- , wife, he will be glad of my repentance. It becomes me not to draw my pen in defence of a bad caufe». when I have fo often drawn it for a good one. Yet it were not difficult to... | |
 | 1798 - 604 sivua
...enemy, let him triumph ; if he be my friend, as I have given him no perfonal occafion to be otherwise, he will be glad of my repentance. It becomes me not...caufe, when I have fo often drawn it for a good one." If Congreve and Vanbrugh had taken the fame method with Dryden, and made an ingenuous confeffion of... | |
 | John Horne Tooke - 1798 - 566 sivua
...fitting, proper, &c. to raife the liege.] « 30. In Favour of, on the Part of, on the Side <?/; As .** —It becomes me not to draw my pen in the defence...caufe, when I have fo often drawn it FOR a good one? [ie A good one being the Caufe of drawing it.] ** 31. Noting Accommodation, or Adaptation : As— «... | |
 | John Horne Tooke - 1798 - 554 sivua
...fitting, proper, &c. to raife the fiege.] " 30. In Favour of, on the Part of, on the Side of} As « — // becomes me not to draw my pen in the defence of a...caufe, when I have fo often drawn it FOR a good one? [ie A good one being the Caufe of drawing it.] ir " 31. Noting Accommodation, or Adaptation : As —... | |
 | John Dryden, Edmond Malone - 1800 - 670 sivua
...enemy, let him triumph ; if he be my friend, as I have given him no personal occasion to be otherwise, he will be glad of my repentance. It becomes me not to draw my pen One would have thought he could no longer jog; But ARTHUR was a level, JOB'S a bog. There, though he... | |
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