 | Ireland - 1851 - 838 pages
...reform their plays ; Dryden alone pleaded guilty, in the preface to his Fables, published in 1700. " I shall say the less of Mr. Collier, because in many...thoughts and expressions of mine, which can be truly argued of obscenity, profancness, or immorality, and retract them. If he be my enemy, let him triumph... | |
 | University magazine - 1851 - 796 pages
...reform their plays ; Dryden alone pleaded guilty, in the preface to his Fables, published in 1700. " I shall say the less of Mr. Collier, because in many...have pleaded guilty to all thoughts and expressions ei mine, which can be truly argued of obscenity, profaneness, or immorality, and retract them. If he... | |
 | 1851 - 778 pages
...reform their plays ; Dryden alone pleaded guilty, in the preface to his Fables, published in 1700. " I shall say the less of Mr. Collier, because in many...have pleaded guilty to all thoughts and expressions et'mine, which can be truly argued of obscenity, profaneness, or immorality, and retract them. If he... | |
 | George Hogarth - Dramatic music - 1851 - 394 pages
...himself. " I shall say the less of Mr. Collier," said the veteran poet, in the preface to his Fables, " because in many things he has taxed me justly ; and...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... | |
 | John Dryden - English poetry - 1854 - 350 pages
...stead of it, to traduce me in a libel. I shall say the less of Mr. Collier, because in many tilings he has taxed me justly; and I have pleaded guilty...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... | |
 | John Dryden - 1854 - 318 pages
...he had the 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 * In this notice of Collier, Dryden deals leniently with his assailant. But Dryden had the worst side... | |
 | John Dryden - 1859 - 480 pages
...henefactor ; hut instead of it, to traduce me in a lihel I shall say the less of Mr. Collier, hecause in many things he has taxed me justly ; and I have...to all thoughts and expressions of mine, which can he truly argued of ohscenity, profaneness, or immorality : and retract them. If he he my enemy, let... | |
 | Hippolyte Taine - English literature - 1863 - 738 pages
...seule « difficulté est de choisir ou de rejeter parmi elles *. » 1 . I shall say the less of M' Collier, because in many things he has taxed me justly; and I have pleaded guilty to ail thoughts or expressions of mine, which can ba truly argued of obscenity, profaneness, or immorality;... | |
 | John Dryden - 1866 - 326 pages
...subsequent preface to his Fables observes, " 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 canbe truly argued of obscenity, profaneness, or immorality, and retract them. If he be my enemy let... | |
 | Hippolyte Taine - English literature - 1866 - 446 pages
...justly; and I have pleaded guilty to ail thoughts or expressions of mine, which can be truly argued of obscenity, profaneness, or immorality; and retract them. — If he be my ennemy, let him triumph. If he be my friend, and I have given him no personal occasion to be otherwise,... | |
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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. 
