 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.  Shaw's New History of English Literature - Sivu 183tekijä(t) Thomas Budd Shaw - 1879 - 404 sivuaKoko teos - Tietoja tästä kirjasta
 | Samuel Johnson - 1801 - 476 sivua
...expreffions of mine that can be truly accufed of " obfcenity, immorality, or profanenefs, ano^retradt *•* them. If he be my enemy, let him triumph ; " if he be my friend, he will be glad of my re" pentance." Yet as our beft difpofitions are imperfect, he left ftanding in... | |
 | Great Britain - 1804 - 658 sivua
...expreffions of mine, which can be truly argued of obfcenity, profanenefs, or immorality, and retraft them. If he be my enemy, let him triumph ; if he be my friend, о» I have given him no perfonal occafion to be otherwife, he will be glad of my repentance. It becomes... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1805 - 954 sivua
...with, as a crime : with of. I have pleaded guilty to all thout^its and cxpressi<"'!!S of mine, whiclt can be- truly argued of obscenity, profaneness, or immorality, and retract them. Dryden's FaUet. Th» 4ccidents arc not the same \vhich v:onld have irjucJ him cy'a servile copying,... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1806 - 482 sivua
...thoughts or expreffions of mine that can be truly " acculed of obfcenity, immorality, or profanenefs, " 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 beft difpofitions are imperfecT:, he left ftanding... | |
 | John Bell - 1807 - 458 sivua
...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 has...them. If he be my enemy, let him triumph ; if he be my fnend, as I have given him no personal occasion to be otherwise, he will be glad of my repentance.... | |
 | John Dryden, Walter Scott - 1808 - 564 sivua
...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 things he has...friend, as I have given him no personal occasion to he otherwise, he will be glad of my repentance. It becomes me not to draw my pen in the defence of... | |
 | John Dryden, Walter Scott - 1808 - 478 sivua
...too mu< h conscience-struck to attempt a defence of what was really indefensible. " I shall say the less of Mr Collier, because in many things he has...profaneness, or immorality, and retract them. If he he my enemy, let him triumph ; if he be my friend, as I have given him no personal occasion to be otherwise,... | |
 | John Watkins - 1808 - 568 sivua
...Letthem to fire, their due desert, commit. In the preface to his fables, he says : " I shall say the less of Mr. Collier, because in many things he has...thoughts and expressions of mine, which can be truly arraigned of obscenity, profaneness, or immorality, and retract them. If he be my enemy let him triumph... | |
 | John Dryden - 1808 - 486 sivua
...by profession," said the wag ; " and you know two of a trade can never agree,"— Gibber1! Apology. many things he has taxed me justly ; and I have pleaded...expressions of mine, which can be truly argued of obscenity, profaneneis, or immorality, and retract them. If he be my enemy, let him triumph ; if he be my friend,... | |
 | David Phineas Adams, William Emerson, Samuel Cooper Thacher - 1809 - 446 sivua
...gentleman and a Christian, he replied : " 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 may truly be argued of obscenity, profaneness or immorality, and retract them. If he be my enemy, let... | |
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