 | 1809 - 878 pages
...yet to the chastisement of the rude Jeremy, in the spirit of a gentleman and a Christian, he replied: "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 may truly... | |
 | Alexander Chalmers - English poetry - 1810 - 612 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...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 Nichols, Samuel Bentley - Authors, English - 1812 - 764 pages
...in the Pit-face to his Fables will shew that this is not observed without sufficient foundation : " I shall say the less of Mr. Collier, because in many...mine, which can be truly arraigned, of obscenity, proianeness, or immorality, and retract them. If he he my enemy, let him triumph ; ii' he be my friend,... | |
 | John Nichols, Samuel Bentley - Authors, English - 1812 - 758 pages
...the Preface to his Fables will shew that this is not observed without sufficient foundation : • " I shall say the less of Mr. Collier, because in many...taxed me justly ; and I have pleaded guilty to all thoughU and expressions of mine, which can be truly arraigned, of obscenity, profaneness, or immorality,... | |
 | John Nichols - Authors, English - 1812 - 746 pages
...observed without sufficient foundation : " I shall say the less of Mr. Collier, because in many things ho has taxed me justly ; and I have pleaded guilty to...mine, which can be truly arraigned, of obscenity, prot'aneness, or immorality, and retract them. If he be my enemy, let him triumph ; jf he. be my friend,... | |
 | John Nichols - Authors, English - 1812 - 748 pages
...observed without sufficient foundation : " I shall say 'he less of Mr. Collier, because in many things ho has taxed me justly ; and I have pleaded guilty to...mine, which can be truly arraigned, of obscenity, prot'anenesB, or immorality, and retract them. If he be my enemy, let him triumph j if he be my friend,... | |
 | Ezekiel Sanford - English poetry - 1819 - 466 pages
...monuments of my master's actions,' answered Prior, 'are to be seen every where but can be truly argued of obscenity, profaneness, or immorality, and retract them. If he be my enemy, let him triumph; il' he be my fricnd, as I have given him no personal occasion to be otherwise, he will be glad to be... | |
 | Ezekiel Sanford - English poetry - 1819 - 448 pages
...of Dryden, p. 330. t ' I shall say the less of Mr. Collier, (says he, in the preface to the Fables,} because, in many things, he has taxed me justly; and I have pleaded guilty to aU droughts and expressions of mine, whit h as he was much more sensitive to ridicule than logic, we... | |
 | John Dryden, Walter Scott - 1821 - 482 pages
...profession," said the wag ; " and you know two of a trade can never agree." — ember's Apology. , many things he has taxed me justly ; and I have pleaded...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... | |
 | Richard Ryan - 1825 - 526 pages
...in terms becoming a gentleman : — " 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 may be argued of obscenity, profaneness, or immorality, and retract them. If he be my enemy, let him... | |
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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. 
