 | Hippolyte Taine - 1874 - 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, he will be glad of my repentance.'4 There is some wit in what follows : ' He (Collier) is too much given to horseplay in... | |
 | Thomas Budd Shaw - 1874 - 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, he will be glad of my repentance."—Dryden,—Prtface to FaHet. place belongs to Thomas Otway (1651-1685), who died at the... | |
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1876 - 508 pages
...been justly reproved. " If," said he, " Mr. Collier be my enemy, let him triumph. If he be my friend, as I have given him no personal occasion to be otherwise, he will be glad of my repentance." It would have been wise in Congreve to follow his master's example. He was precisely in that situation... | |
 | 1888 - 614 pages
...have pleaded guilty. ... If he be my enemy, let him triumph. ... If he be my friend, as I have given no personal occasion to be otherwise, he will be glad of my repentance.' The comic drama was indeed in a disgraceful state, and among a host of dramatists including Etheredge,... | |
 | 1889 - 844 pages
...let him triumph ; if he be my friend, as I have given him no personal occasion to be otherwise, lie will be glad of my repentance. It becomes me not to...cause, when I have so often drawn it for a good one.' But Ltryden complained, and fairly, that his antagonist had often perverted his meaning, that he was... | |
 | George Atherton Aitken - 1889 - 462 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,...my repentance. It becomes me not to draw my pen in defence of a bad cause, when I have so often drawn it for a good one." In this same Preface, however,... | |
 | 1890 - 870 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.' But Dryden complained, and fairly, that his antagonist had often perverted his meaning, that he was... | |
 | James Russell Lowell - 1890 - 410 pages
...considers the undue severity of his censor) he had the manliness to confess that he had done wrong. " It becomes me not to draw my pen in the defence of...cause, when I have so often drawn it for a good one." 2 And in a letter to his correspondent, Mrs. Thomas, written only a few weeks before his death, warning... | |
 | James Russell Lowell - 1890 - 384 pages
...considers the undue severity of his censor) he had the manliness to confess that he had done wrong. " It becomes me not to draw my pen in the defence of...cause, when I have so often drawn it for a good one." 2 And in a letter to his correspondent, Mrs. Thomas, written only a few weeks before his death, warning... | |
 | James Russell Lowell - 1890 - 388 pages
...considers the undue severity of his censor) he had the manliness to confess that he had done wrong. " It becomes me not to draw my pen in the defence of...cause, when I have so often drawn it for a good one." 2 And in a letter to his correspondent, Mrs. Thomas, written only a few weeks before his death, warning... | |
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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,... 
