 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, let him triumph ; if he be my friend, as I have given him no personal occasion to be...  Lives of English poets - Page 380by Samuel Johnson - 1801Full view - About this book
 | John Dryden - 1713 - 614 pages
...Expreffions of mine, which can be truly nrgtfd of Obfcenity, Profanenefs, or Immorality \ and retract them. If he be my Enemy, let him triumph * if he be my Friend, as 1 have given him noPerfonal Occafion to be otherwife, he will be glad of my Repentance. It becomes... | |
 | John Dryden - 1760 - 526 pages
...expreflions of mine, which can be truly argued of obfcenity, profanenefs, or immorality ; and retract them. If he be my enemy, let him triumph ; if he be my friend, as I have given him no peribnal occafion to be otherwife, he will be glad of my repentance. It becomes... | |
 | 1761 - 614 pages
...expreflions of mine, which can be truly arraigned of " obfcenity, profanenefs, or immorality, and retract them. " If he be my enemy, let him triumph ; if he be my friend, " as 1 have given him no perlbnal occafion to be otherwife, " he will be glad of my repentance. It... | |
 | New and general biographical dictionary - 1761 - 600 pages
...expreffions of mine, which can be truly arraigned of " obfcenity, profanenefs, or immorality, and retract them. " If he be my enemy, let him triumph ; if he be my friend, " as I have given him no perfonal occafion to be otherwife, " he will be glad of my repentance. It... | |
 | John Dryden - 1767 - 392 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, as I have given him no perfonal occafion to be otherwife, he will be glad of my repentance. It becomes... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1783 - 456 pages
...exprejpons of mine that can be truly accufed of obftenity, 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 Banding in the fame book a refleclion... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1783 - 484 pages
...mine that can be truly accufed of ohfcenity, immorality, or frofanenefs, and retraSt them. If he he 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 in the fame book a- reflection 0n... | |
 | Samuel Johnson, John Hawkins - 1787 - 498 pages
...retracJ them. If he he my enemy, let him triumph ; if he he my friend, he will he glad of my repentance. Yet, as our beft difpofitions are imperfect, he left...great afperity, and indeed of more afperity than wit. Blackrnore he reprefents as made his enemy by the poem of Abfalom and Ackitophcl, which he thinks a... | |
 | Samuel Johnson, John Hawkins - 1787 - 494 pages
...exprejjiom of mine that can be truly accufed of obfcenity, immorality , or profanenefs, and retraft 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 imperfecl, he left ftanding in the fame book a reflection... | |
 | English poets - 1790 - 344 pages
...expreffions of mine " that can be truly accufed of obfcenity, im" morality, or profanenefs, and retraft them. " If he be my enemy, let him triumph; if he " be my friend, he will be glad of my repen" tance." Yet as our beft difpofitions are imperfcft, he left ftanding in the fame book a reflecYion... | |
| |
