 | John Horne Tooke - 1798 - 554 pages
...fitting, proper, &c. to raife the fiege.] " 30. In Favour of, on the Part of, on the Side of} As « — // becomes me not to draw my pen in the defence of a " bad caufe, when I have fo often drawn it FOR a good one? [ie A good one being the Caufe of drawing it.]... | |
 | John Dryden - 1800 - 674 pages
...profaneness, or immorality, and retract them. If he be my enemy, let him triumph; if he be my friend, as I have given him no personal occasion to be otherwise,...of my repentance. It becomes me not to draw my pen One would have thought he could no longer jog; But ARTHUR was a level, JOB'S a bog. There, though he... | |
 | John Dryden - 1800 - 662 pages
...profaneness, or immorality, and retract them. If lie be my enemy, let him triumph ; if he be my friend, as I have given him no personal occasion to be otherwise,...of my repentance. It becomes me not to draw my pen One would have thought he could no longer jog ; But ARTHUR was a level, JOB'S a bog. There, though... | |
 | John Dryden - 1800 - 674 pages
...profaneness, or immorality, and retract them. If he be my enemy, let him triumph ; if he be my friend, as I have given him no personal occasion to be otherwise,...glad of my repentance. It becomes me not to draw my pea One would have thought he could no longer jog ; But ARTHUR was a level, JOB'S a bog. There, though... | |
 | John Watkins - 1808 - 568 pages
...profaneness, or immorality, and retract them. If he be my enemy let him triumph ; if he be my friend, as I have given him no personal occasion to be otherwise,...cause, when I have so often drawn it for a good one." Having succeeded so well with Virgil, our poet turned his thoughts to a translation of Homer, of whom... | |
 | John Dryden, Walter Scott - 1808 - 478 pages
...profaneness, or immorality, and retract them. If he he my enemy, let him triumph ; if he be my friend, as I have given him no personal occasion to be otherwise,...to draw my pen in the defence of a bad cause, when 1 have so often drawn it for a good one." Preface to the Fables. This candid avowal, and the coincidence... | |
 | John Dryden - 1808 - 486 pages
...profaneneis, or immorality, and retract them. If he be my enemy, let him triumph ; if he be my friend, as I have given him no personal occasion to be otherwise,...to draw my pen in the defence of a bad cause, when 1 have so often drawn it for a good one." Preface to the Fables. This candid avowal, and the coincidence... | |
 | John Dryden, Walter Scott - 1808 - 476 pages
...profaneness, or immorality, and retract them. If he be my enemy, let him triumph ; if he be my friend, as I have given him no personal occasion to be otherwise,...to draw my pen in the defence of a bad cause, when 1 have so often drawn it for a good one." Preface to the Fables. This candid avowal, and the coincidence... | |
 | John Dryden, Walter Scott - 1808 - 564 pages
...he be my enemy, let him triumph ; if he be my friend, as I have given him no personal occasion to he otherwise, he will be glad of my repentance. It becomes...cause, when I have so often drawn it for a good one." To this manly and liberal admission, he has indeed tacked a complaint, that Collier had sometimes,... | |
 | David Phineas Adams, William Emerson, Samuel Cooper Thacher - 1809 - 446 pages
...profaneness or immorality, and retract them. If he be my enemy, let him triumph ; if he be my friend, as I have given him no personal occasion to be otherwise,...cause, when I have so often drawn it for a good one." Immediately after this controversy Dryden died, and on that event the following lines were printed,... | |
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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. If he be my enemy,... 
