 | Hippolyte Adolphe Taine - 1871 - 570 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 gkd of my repentance.' 4 There is some wit in what follows : ' He (Collier) is too much given to horseplay... | |
 | Henry Morley - 1873 - 964 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." But of Collier's... | |
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1873 - 728 pages
...reproved. " If," said he, " Mr. Collier be my enemy, let him triumph. If he be my friend, as I hare given him no personal occasion to be otherwise, he will be glad of my repentance." It would have been wise in Congreve to follow hia master's example. He was precisely in that situation... | |
 | John Dryden - 1874 - 740 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 biid cause, when I have so often drawn it for a good one. Yet it were not difficult... | |
 | Hippolyte Taine - 1874 - 568 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.'4 There is some wit in what follows : ' He (Collier) is too much given to horseplay in... | |
 | Thomas Budd Shaw - 1874 - 446 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."—Dryden,—Prtface to FaHet. place belongs to Thomas Otway (1651-1685), who died at the... | |
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1860 - 452 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... | |
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1876 - 506 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... | |
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1876 - 508 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... | |
 | Thomas Budd Shaw - 1878 - 444 pages
...profanencss or immorality, and retract them. If ho 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."— Dryden,— Preface to Fables. place belongs to Thomas Otway (1651-1685), who died at the early age... | |
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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,... 
