| Reuben Percy - 1826 - 386 pages
...upon this occasion in his preface to his Fables, does much credit to his candour and good sense. " I shall say the less of Mr. Collier, because in many...profaneness, or immorality, and retract them. If he be mine enemy, let him triumph; if he be my friend, as I have given him no personal occasion to be otherwise,... | |
| Walter Scott - 1826 - 526 pages
...magnanimity to acknowledge its justice. la the preface to the Fables, he makes the amende honorable. « I shall say the less of Mr Collier, because in many...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... | |
| Walter Scott - 1826 - 532 pages
...magnanimity to acknowledge its justice. In the preface to the Fables, he makes the amende honorable. « I shall say the less of Mr Collier, because in many things he has taxed mejnstly, and I have pleaded guilty to all thoughts and expressions of mine, which can be truly argued... | |
| Walter Scott - 1827 - 566 pages
...magnanimity to acknowledge its justice. In the preface to the Fables, he makes the amende honorable. " 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... | |
| sir Walter Scott (bart [prose, collected]) - 1827 - 564 pages
...magnanimity to acknowledge its justice. In the preface to the Fables, he makes the amende honorable. " 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... | |
| sir Walter Scott (bart [prose, collected]) - 1827 - 488 pages
...reflections upon the rudeness of his antagonist's attacks : " I shall say the less of Mr Collier, because iu many things he has taxed me justly ; and I have pleaded...thoughts and expressions of mine, which can be truly accused of obscenity, profaneness, or immorality, and retract them. If he be my enemy, let him triumph... | |
| Walter Scott - 1829 - 344 pages
...magnanimity to acknowledge ifs justice. In the preface to the Fables, he makes the amende honorable. " 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 Dryden - 1832 - 342 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... | |
| Walter Scott - 1834 - 418 pages
...liberal submission, though not without some reflections upon the rudeness of his antagonist's attacks : " I shall say the less of Mr Collier, because in many...thoughts and expressions of mine, which can be truly accused of obscenity, profaneness, or immorality, and retract them. If he be my enemy, let him triumph;... | |
| Walter Scott - 1834 - 424 pages
...liberal submission, though not without some reflections upon the rudeness of his antagonist's attacks : " I shall say the less of Mr Collier, because in many...thoughts and expressions of mine, which can be truly accused of obscenity, profaneness, or immorality, and retract them. If he be my enemy, let him triumph... | |
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