 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,...  The Monthly Anthology, and Boston Review - Page 313edited by - 1809Full view - About this book
 | John Dryden - 1800 - 674 pages
...quite forgot; His man of Uz, stript of his Hebrew robe, Is just the proverb, — and as poor as Job. obscenity, profaneness, or immorality, and retract...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 Dryden - 1800 - 662 pages
...the proverb, — and as poor as Job. obscenity, profaneness, or immorality, and retract them. If lie be my enemy, let him triumph ; if he be my friend,...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... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1800 - 658 pages
...guilty to all thoughts and expreflions of mine, which can be truly argued of obfcenity, profancnefs, it blcmng ere 1 write; With reverence look on his maie perfonal occalion to be otherwife, he will be glad of my repentance. It becomes not me to draw my pen... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1801 - 476 pages
...expreffions of mine that can be truly accufed of " obfcenity, immorality, or profanenefs, ano^retradt *•* them. If he be my enemy, let him triumph ; " if he be my friend, he will be glad of my re" pentance." Yet as our beft difpofitions are imperfect, he left ftanding in... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1801 - 308 pages
...exprdTions of " mine that can be truly accufed of ohfeenity, im" morality, or profanenefs, and refraft them. If " he be my enemy, let him triumph ; if he be my " friend, he will be glad of my repentance." Yet as our beft difpofitions are imperfecT:, he left ftanding in... | |
 | Great Britain - 1804 - 658 pages
...expreffions of mine, which can be truly argued of obfcenity, profanenefs, or immorality, and retraft them. If he be my enemy, let him triumph ; if he be my friend, о» I have given him no perfonal occafion to be otherwife, he will be glad of my repentance. It becomes... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1806 - 482 pages
...thoughts or expreffions of mine that can be truly " acculed of obfcenity, immorality, or profanenefs, " and retract: them. If he be my enemy, let him " triumph ; if he be my friend, he will be glad of ** my repentance." Yet as our beft difpofitions are imperfecT:, he left ftanding... | |
 | John Bell - 1807 - 458 pages
...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 ;...them. If he be my enemy, let him triumph ; if he be my fnend, as I have given him no personal occasion to be otherwise, he will be glad of my repentance.... | |
 | John Dryden, Walter Scott - 1808 - 476 pages
...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...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
...guilty to all thoughts and expressions of mine, which can be truly argued of obscenity, profaneneis, or immorality, and retract them. If he be my enemy,...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... | |
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