 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 - Page 597by Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1895 - 923 pagesFull view - About this book
 | John Dryden - 1800 - 674 pages
...the proverb, — and as poor as Job. I 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 One would have thought he could no longer jog; But ARTHUR was a level,... | |
 | John Dryden - 1800 - 674 pages
...the proverb, — and as poor as Job. 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 pea One would have thought he could no longer jog ; But ARTHUR was a level,... | |
 | John Dryden, Walter Scott - English literature - 1808 - 506 pages
...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... | |
 | John Dryden, Walter Scott - English literature - 1808 - 476 pages
...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 1 have so often drawn it for a good... | |
 | John Dryden - English literature - 1808 - 500 pages
...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... | |
 | John Watkins - Authors, English - 1808 - 568 pages
...mine, which can be truly arraigned 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... | |
 | John Dryden, Walter Scott - 1808 - 478 pages
...mine, which can be truly argued of obscenity, profaneness, or immorality, and retract them. If he he my enemy, let him triumph ; if he be my friend, as...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 1 have so often drawn it for a good... | |
 | 1809 - 878 pages
...of mine, which may truly be 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... | |
 | Alexander Chalmers - English poetry - 1810 - 612 pages
...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 rue not to draw my pen in the defence of a bad cause, when I have so often drawn it for a good... | |
 | John Nichols - Authors, English - 1812 - 746 pages
...of obscenity, prot'aneness, or immorality, and retract them. If he be my enemy, let him triumph ; jf he. be my friend, as I have given him no personal...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 1 have so often drawn it for a good... | |
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