 | Elizabeth Stone - 1845 - 472 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." Shakspeare, although... | |
 | Walter Farquhar Hook - 1848 - 630 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." His next publication... | |
 | George Hogarth - 1851 - 394 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." It does not appear... | |
 | University magazine - 1851 - 796 pages
...them. If he be my enemy, let him triumph ; if he be my friend, as I have given him no personal reason 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 1 have so often drawn it for a good one." To this he adds,... | |
 | 1851 - 778 pages
...them. If he be my enemy, let him triumph ; if he be my friend, as I have given him no personal reason 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." To this he adds,... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1854 - 468 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, he will be glad of my repentance."137 Yet as our best dispositions are imperfect, 136 Preface to Fables, 1700. 117 He had... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1854 - 472 pages
...profancness, 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, he will be glad of my repentance."137 Yet as our best dispositions are imperfect, 136 Preface to Fables, 1700. 137 He hud... | |
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1897 - 950 pages
...whole, he frankly acknowledged that lie had been justly reproved. " If," said he, " Mr. Collier be my enemy, let him triumph. If he be my friend, as...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 Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1860 - 1008 pages
...justly reproved. " If," said he, " Mr. Collier be my enemy, let him triumph. If he be my friend, as I have given him no personal occasion to 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... | |
 | Hippolyte Taine - 1863 - 738 pages
...or immorality; and retrait them. — If he be my ennemy. let him triumph. If he be my friend, and l 'have given him no personal occasion to be otherwise, he will be glad of my repc-ntance. » — 11 ya de l'esprit dans ce qui suit : « He is too much given to horseplay in his... | |
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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,... 
