 | Ezekiel Sanford - 1819 - 448 pages
...where but 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 1 have given him no personal occasion to De otherwise, he will be glad to be otherwise, it becomes not me to draw my pen in defence of a bad... | |
 | Ezekiel Sanford - 1819 - 466 pages
...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 otherwise. It becomes not me to draw my pen in defence of a bad cause, when I have so often drawn... | |
 | Richard Ryan - 1825 - 526 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,...glad of my repentance. It becomes me, not to draw my pen in the defence of a bad cause, when I have so often drawn it for a good one," Soon after this controversy... | |
 | Reuben Percy - 1826 - 386 pages
...profaneness, or immorality, and retract them. If he be mine enemy, let him triumph; if he be my friend, as I have given him no personal occasion to be otherwise,...glad of 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." If Congreve and Vanburgh... | |
 | Walter Scott - 1826 - 532 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,...glad of my repentance. It becomes me not to draw my pen in the defence of a bad cause, when I have so often drawn it for a good one.» To this manly and... | |
 | Walter Scott - 1826 - 526 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,...glad of my repentance. It becomes me not to draw my pen in the defence of a bad cause, when I have so often drawn it for a good one.» To this manly and... | |
 | sir Walter Scott (bart [prose, collected]) - 1827 - 564 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,...glad of my repentance. It becomes me not to draw my pen in the defence of a bad cause, when I have so often drawn it for a good one." To this manly and... | |
 | sir Walter Scott (bart [prose, collected]) - 1827 - 488 pages
...immorality, and retract them. If he be my enemy, let him triumph ; if he be my friend, as I have given him no occasion to be otherwise, he will be glad of my repentance. It becomes me not to draw my pen in the defence of a bad cause, when I have so often drawn it for a good one. Yet it were not difficult... | |
 | Walter Scott - 1829 - 344 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,...glad of my repentance. It becomes me not to draw my pen in the defence of a bad cause, when I have so often drawn it for a good one." To this manly and... | |
 | John Dryden - 1832 - 342 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,...glad of my repentance. It becomes me not to draw my pen in the defence of a bad cause, when I have so often drawn it for a good one. Yet it were not difficult... | |
| |
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,... 
