 | Manchester Literary Club - 1878 - 310 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. The passage referred to is the following : — Oh gracious God ! how far have we Profaned thy heavenly... | |
 | Hippolyte Taine - 1878 - 518 pages
...or immorality; and retract them. — If he be my enemy, let him triumph. If he be my friend, and I have given him no personal occasion to be otherwise, he will be glad of my repentance. — 3n bem gotgenben liegt ®eiji: „He is too much given to horseplay in his raillery, and comes... | |
 | Henry Morley - 1879 - 708 pages
...retract them. If he be my enemy, let him triumph ; if he be my friend, as I have given him no j>ersonal occasion to be otherwise, he will be glad of my repentance. It becomes me not to draw m}- pen in the defence of a bad cause, when I have so often drawn it for a good one." But of Collier's... | |
 | Thomas Budd Shaw - 1879 - 448 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,— Prefact to place belongs to Thomas Otway (1651-1685), who died at the early age of thirty-four,... | |
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1880 - 684 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... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1881 - 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 glad of my repentance." Preface to Dry den's Fables. In his ode to the Memory of Mrs. KiUigrew there are the following lines... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1881 - 608 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." Preface to Dryden's Fables. In his ode to the Memory of Mrs. Killigrew there arc the following lines... | |
 | Alfred Hix Welsh - 1882 - 1108 pages
...mine which can be truly argued of obscenity, profanencss, or immorality, and retract them. If he be my enemy, let him triumph; if he be my friend, as...personal occasion to be otherwise, he will be glad of my repentance.1 Elsewhere: 'My thoughtless youth was winged with vain desires, My manhood, long misled... | |
 | Anna Buckland - 1882 - 548 pages
...expression, he says of his critic : " 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." Of Dryden's way of... | |
 | Alfred Hix Welsh - 1883 - 586 pages
...profaneness, or immorality, and retract them. If he be my enemy, let him trinmph; if he be my friend, as I have given him no personal occasion to be otherwise, he will be glad of my repentance.' Elsewhere : t 'My thoughtless youth was winged with vain desires, My manhood, long misled by wandering... | |
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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,... 
