 | Goodloe Harper Bell - American literature - 1900 - 612 pages
...Collier wrote against the immorality of Dryden's plays, Dryden wrote in reply, "I shall say the less, 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 - 1900 - 140 pages
...given by my loose writings ; and make what reparation I am able by this public acknowledgment. . . . I have pleaded guilty to all thoughts and expressions of mine which can be truly argued of obscenity, profaneness, or immorality ; and retract them. SUGGESTIONS Palamon and Arcite... | |
 | John Dryden - 1900 - 140 pages
...given by my loose writings; and make what reparation I am able by this public acknowledgment. . . . I have pleaded guilty to all thoughts and expressions of mine which can be truly argued of obscenity, profaneness, or immorality; and retract them. SUGGESTIONS Palamon and Arcite may... | |
 | Hippolyte Taine - English literature - 1900 - 518 pages
...things he has faxed me justly; and *> Scott's " Life of Dryden," i. 449. a " Essay on Satire," xiii. 80. I have pleaded guilty to all thoughts and expressions of mine which can be truly argued obscenity, profaneness, or immorality, and retract them. If he be my enemy, let him triumph... | |
 | Hippolyte Taine - English literature - 1900 - 496 pages
...corrupter of 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 faxed me justly; and 18 Letter 23, " to his sons at Rome," » Scott's " Life of Dryden," i. 449. xviii.... | |
 | Henry Morley - 1912 - 1214 pages
...the impertinences of Sir Richard Blackmore ; but of Jeremy Collier he wrote, " I shall say the less, ry," he said, " as if the original fault had been my fault, because myself argued of obscenity, profaneness, or immorality, and retract them. If he be my enemy, let him triumph... | |
 | 1901 - 928 pages
...noble honesty that he had been justly e-eproved. I ¿ shall say the less of Mr Collier,' he says, ‘ because in many things he has taxed me justly; and I have pleaded guilty to all thoughets and expressions of neine which can be truly argued of obscenity, profaneness, or immorality,... | |
 | Robert Chambers - American literature - 1902 - 864 pages
...Fables (1700) acknowledged he had been justly reproved. ' I shall say the less of Mr Collier,' he says, '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... | |
 | Robert Chambers - Authors, English - 1902 - 860 pages
...Fables (1700) acknowledged he had been justly reproved. ' I shall say the less of Mr Collier,' he says, '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 - 1904 - 762 pages
...had the baseness not to acknowledge his benefactor, but, instead of it, to traduce me in a liliel. I shall say the less of Mr. Collier, because in many things he has taxed mo justly ; and I have pleaded guilty to all thoughts and expressions of mine, which can be truly argued... | |
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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. 
