 | Thomas Babington Macaulay - 1883 - 1254 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." ^v. It would have been wise in Congreve to follow bis master's example. He was precisely in that situation... | |
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay (baron [essays]) - 1883 - 876 pages
...been justly reproved. " If," said he, " Mr Collier be my enemy, let him triumph. If he be my fi ientl, as 1 have given him no personal occasion to be otherwise, he will be glaj. of my repentance. " It would have been wise in Congreve to follow his mailer's example. He was... | |
 | Hippolyte Taine - 1883 - 516 pages
...and retract them. — If be be my enemy, let him trinmph. If he be my friend, and I have given hím no personal occasion to be otherwise, he will be glad of my repentance. — «He is too much given to borseplay in his raillery, and comes to battle, like a Dictator from... | |
 | William John Courthope - 1884 - 202 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." ' I The first blow against fashionable immorality having been boldly struck, was followed up systematically.... | |
 | Thomas Budd Shaw, Truman Jay Backus - 1884 - 508 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 plad of my repentance."—Dryden, Prffuct to Fables. The Tragic Dramatists. Among the exclusively tragic... | |
 | William Henry Davenport Adams - 1885 - 442 pages
...profaneness, 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,...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."* A comedy called... | |
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1885 - 916 pages
...justly reproved. "If," said he, "Mr. Collier be my enemy, let him triumph. If he be my friend, as I $ T $ S $ would have been wise in Conp^eve to follow his matter's example. Ue was precisely iu that situation... | |
 | Henry James Nicoll - 1886 - 478 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." Many of Dryden's... | |
 | 1887 - 548 pages
...justly charged. " If Mr. Collier," he said, " 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 defence of a bad cause, when I have so often drawn it for a good one." But even in those days... | |
 | WILLIAM CONGREVE - 1887 - 556 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... | |
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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,... 
