 | Walter Scott - 1834 - 412 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 things he has taxed me justly; and 1 have pleaded guilty to all thoughts and expressions of mine, which can be truly accused of obscenity,... | |
 | Walter Scott - 1834 - 516 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 me justly ; and 1 have pleaded guilty to all thoughts and expressions of mine, which can be truly argued of obscenity,... | |
 | Sir 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... | |
 | John Dryden - 1837 - 482 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 has taxed me justly ; and I havo pleaded guiliy to all thoughts and expressions of mine, which can be truly argued of obscenity,... | |
 | Walter Scott - 1837 - 936 pages
...p. 116, &c ] " I shall my the len of Mr Collier, became in' man; things he his taxed me jutly ; md I have pleaded guilty to all thoughts and expressions of mine, which can be truly accused of obscenity, profaneoess, or immorality, and retract .them. If ho be my enemy, let him triumph... | |
 | George Hogarth - 1838 - 494 pages
...self. " 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;... | |
 | Jeremy Collier - 1840 - 656 pages
...on the subject, in the preface to his Fables. " I shall say the less of Mr. Collier (writes Dryden), because in many things he has taxed me justly, and...expressions of mine, which can be truly arraigned for obscenity, profaneness, and immorality, and retract them. If he be my enemy, let him triumph ;... | |
 | 1842 - 740 pages
...less severe than just ; and the following forms a magnanimous reply in his preface to the Fables : " I shall say the less of Mr. Collier, because in many things he has attacked me justly; and I have pleaded guilty to all thoughts and expressions of mine which can be... | |
 | Elizabeth Stone - 1845 - 484 pages
...censure of Dryden which it contains, this gentleman made the following manly and candid admission : " 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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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. 
