 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
 | John Dryden - 1867 - 556 sivua
...baseness not to acknowledge his benefactor ; but instead of it, to traduce me ha libel I shall say the 867 prof.meness, or immorality ; and retract them. If ho be my enemy, let him triumph ; if he be my friend,... | |
 | Walter Scott, J. M. W. (Joseph Mallord William) Turner - 1869 - 486 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...argued of obscenity, profaneness, or immorality, and retrai't them If he be my enemy, let him triumph ; if he be my Mend, as I have given him no personal... | |
 | Hippolyte Taine - 1871 - 586 sivua
...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 taxed me justly ; and 1 have pleaded guilty to all thoughts and expressions of mine which can be truly argued of obscenity,... | |
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1873 - 728 sivua
...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 hare given him no personal occasion to be otherwise, he will be glad of my repentance." It would have... | |
 | National cyclopaedia - 1884 - 626 sivua
...his fame by yielding to the demands of the court for loose comedies, at once kissed the rod: — " If he be my enemy let him triumph, if he be my friend he will be glad of my repentance. It becomes me not to draw my pen in defence of a bad cause, when... | |
 | 1884 - 610 sivua
...reasons for Johnson to be hostile to Milton ? 8. (a) Discuss Dryden's treatment of Paradise Lost. (J) " If he be my enemy let him triumph ; if he be my friend he will be glad of my repentance." In saying this, to what did Dryden refer ? (c) What private information... | |
 | William John Courthope - 1884 - 202 sivua
...the stage ?" When Collier attacked him he bent his head in submission. " In many things;" says he, " he has taxed me justly, and I have pleaded guilty to all thought and expressions of mine which can be truly argued of obscenity, profaneness, or immorality,... | |
 | William Henry Davenport Adams - 1885 - 442 sivua
...Preface " to his " Fables," he says, with more frankness, and in a worthier spirit : " I shall say the less of Mr. Collier, because in many things he has...expressions of mine, which can be truly argued of obscurity, profaneness, or immorality, and retract them. If he be my enemy, let him triumph ; if he... | |
 | Hippolyte Taine - 1885 - 1108 sivua
...many things he has taxed ma Justly ; and 1 have pleaded guilty to all thoughts and expressions of miue which can be truly argued of obscenity, profaneness,...him triumph ; if he be my friend, as I have given hint no personal occasion to be otherwise, he will be glad of my repentance. ' * There is some wit... | |
 | Alfred Hix Welsh - 1882 - 1134 sivua
...repentance. Of one who had coarsely reproved him, in the preface to the Fables he says: •1 »hall say the less of Mr. Collier, because in many things he has taxed me justly: and 1 have pleaded guilty to nil thoughts and expressions of mine which can be truly argued of obscenity,... | |
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