 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 Nichols, Samuel Bentley - 1812 - 758 pages
...justly ; and I have pleaded guilty to all thoughU and expressions of mine, which can be truly arraigned, of obscenity, profaneness, or immorality, and retract...triumph ; if he be my friend, as I have given him no i>ersonal occasion to be otherwise, he will l>e glad of my repentance. It becomes me not to draw my... | |
 | John Nichols, Samuel Bentley - 1812 - 748 pages
...profaneness, or immorality, and rcuact them. If he lie my enemy, let him triumph ; if he be my friend, as 1 have given him no personal occasion to be otherwise,...glad of my repentance. It becomes me not to draw my j>en in the defence of a bad cause, when I have so often drawn it for a good one." • If Congreve... | |
 | John Nichols, Samuel Bentley - 1812 - 764 pages
...; ii' he be my friend, as 1 have given him no personal occasion to be otherwise, he vs ill be glud of my repentance. It becomes me not to draw my pen in the defence of a bad cause, when 1 have so often drawn it for a good one." If Congrevc and Yanbrugh had taken the same method with Dryden,... | |
 | John Nichols - 1812 - 748 pages
...to all thoughts and expressions of mine, which can be truly arraigned, of obscenity, prot'anenesB, or immorality, and retract them. If he be my enemy, let him triumph j if he be my friend, as I have given him no personal occasion to be otherwise, lie will be glad of... | |
 | John Nichols - 1812 - 746 pages
...to all thoughts and expressions of mine, which can be truly arraigned, of obscenity, prot'aneness, or immorality, and retract them. If he be my enemy, let him triumph ; jf he. be my friend, as I have given him no personal occasion to be otherwise, he will be glad of... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1818 - 410 pages
...thoughts or expressions of mine that " can be truly accused of obscenity, immorality, or pro" faneness, 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 best dispositions are imperfect, he left standing in... | |
 | Ezekiel Sanford - 1819 - 448 pages
...The monuments of my master's actions,' unswered Prior, 'are to be seen every where but can be truly argued of obscenity, profaneness, or immorality, and...my enemy, let him triumph ; if he be my friend, as 1 have given him no personal occasion to De otherwise, he will be glad to be otherwise, it becomes... | |
 | Ezekiel Sanford - 1819 - 466 pages
...The monuments of my master's actions,' answered Prior, 'are to be seen every where but can be truly argued of obscenity, profaneness, or immorality, and...retract them. If he be my enemy, let him triumph; il' he be my fricnd, as I have given him no personal occasion to be otherwise, he will be glad to be... | |
 | Samuel Johnson, Arthur Murphy - 1820 - 476 pages
...thoughts or expressions of mine that can be truly accused of obscenity, immorality, or profaneness, 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 best dispositions are imperfect, he left standing in... | |
 | Samuel Johnson, Arthur Murphy - 1820 - 466 pages
...thoughts or expressions of mine that can be truly " accused of obscenity, immorality, or profaneness, " and retract them. If he be my enemy, let him " triumph ; if he be my friend, he will be glad of " repentance." Yet as our best dispositions are imperfect, he left standing in the... | |
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