 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
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1866 - 758 pages
...the whole, he frankly acknowledged that he had been justly reproved. " If," said he, " Mr. Collier be my enemy, let him triumph. If he be my friend,...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... | |
 | Thomas Babington baron Macaulay - 1866 - 734 pages
...the whole, he frankly acknowledged that he had been justly reproved. " If," said he, " Mr. Collier be my enemy, let him triumph. If he be my friend,...personal occasion to be otherwise, he will be glad of nay repentance." It would have been wise in Congreve to follow his master's example. He was precisely... | |
 | Hippolyte Taine - 1866 - 446 pages
...taxed me justly; and I have pleaded guilty to ail thoughts or expressions of mine, which can be truly argued of obscenity, profaneness, or immorality; and retract them. — If he be my ennemy, let him triumph. If he be my friend, and I have given him no personal occasion to be otherwise,... | |
 | Hippolyte Taine - 1866 - 442 pages
...profaneness, or immorality ; and retract them. — If he be my ennemy, let himtriumph. If ne be my friend, and I have given him no personal occasion to be otherwise, he will be gladof my repentance. » — Il ya de l'esprit dans ce qui suit : a He is too much given to horseplay... | |
 | Leslie Stephen - 1887 - 512 pages
...treatment he had received, and making some excuses for himself, he nevertheless says, ' If he [Collier] be my enemy, let him triumph. If he be my friend,...to be otherwise, he will be glad of my repentance.' And in his epilogue to Fletcher 8 ' Pilgrim,' while marking a defect in Collier's pamphlet, he acknowledges... | |
 | James Russell Lowell - 1887 - 408 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...bad cause, when I have so often drawn it for a good one."t And in a letter to his correspondent, Mrs. Thomas, written only a few weeks before his death,... | |
 | William Congreve - 1888 - 540 pages
...the whole, he frankly acknowledged that he had been justly reproved. " If," said he, " Mr. Collier be my enemy, let him triumph. If he be my friend,...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
...many things,' he says, ' he — Mr. Collier — has taxed me justly. ... I 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... | |
 | 1889 - 846 pages
...taxed me justly ; and I have pleaded guilty to all thoughts and expressions or mine Which can be truly argued of obscenity, profaneness, or immorality, and...have given him no personal occasion to be otherwise, lie will be glad of my repentance. It becomes me not to draw my pen in the defence of a bad cause,... | |
 | James Mercer Garnett - 1890 - 730 pages
...the whole, he frankly acknowledged that he had been justly reproved. " If," said he, " Mr. Collier be my enemy, let him triumph. If he be my friend,...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... | |
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