 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, let him triumph ; if he...  The Percy Anecdotes: Original and Select - Page 86by Reuben Percy - 1826Full view - About this book
 | John Dryden - English poetry - 1760 - 526 pages
...which can be truly argued of obfcenity, profanenefs, or immorality ; and retract 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. It becomes me not to draw my pen... | |
 | Biography - 1761 - 614 pages
...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. It becomes me not " to draw my pen, in the defence of a bad caufe, when I " have fo often drawn it for a good one." If mr. CongreveDrydsn's... | |
 | New and general biographical dictionary - 1761 - 600 pages
...can be truly arraigned of " obfcenity, profanenefs, or immorality, and retract them. " 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. It becomes me not " to draw... | |
 | John Dryden - English poetry - 1767 - 392 pages
...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, as I have given him no perfonal occafion to be otherwife, he will be glad of my repentance. It becomes me not to draw my pen... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - English poetry - 1779 - 360 pages
...which can be truly argued of obfcenity, profancnefs, or immorality ; and retraft them. 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. It becomes me not to draw my pen... | |
 | English poets - 1790 - 352 pages
...mine, which can be truly argued of obfcenity, profanenefs, or immorality; and retract them. If he be my enemy, let him triumph; if he be my friend, as I have given him ao perfonal occafion to be otherwife, he will be glad of roy repentance. It becomes me not to draw... | |
 | Robert Anderson - English poetry - 1795 - 806 pages
...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 prove, that in many... | |
 | Biography - 1798 - 604 pages
...which «an be truly arraigned, of obfcenity, profanenefs, or immorality, and retrait them. If he be my 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 to draw my pen... | |
 | John Dryden - 1800 - 674 pages
...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, as I have...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... | |
 | John Dryden - English prose literature - 1800 - 712 pages
...poor as Job. fr . • t • tm obscenity, profaneness, or immorality, and retract them. If he be my enemy, let him triumph ; if he be my friend, as I...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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