 | Leslie Stephen - 1887 - 512 pages
...himself, he nevertheless says, ' If he [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.' And in his epilogue to Fletcher 8 ' Pilgrim,' while marking a defect in Collier's pamphlet, he acknowledges... | |
 | Walter Scott - 1887 - 674 pages
...he be my enemy, let him triumph ; if he be my friend, as I have given him no personal occasion to bo 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 gcod one." To this manly and... | |
 | John Dryden - 1893 - 236 pages
...was an acknowledgment of its justice : " 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." On the 30th of April, 1700, it was announced in a London newspaper that "John Dryden, the famous poet,... | |
 | Sir Henry Craik - 1894 - 648 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... | |
 | Sir Henry Craik - 1894 - 674 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... | |
 | Sir Henry Craik - 1894 - 648 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... | |
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1895 - 934 pages
...justly reproved. " If," said he, " Mr Collier be my enemy, let him triumph. If he be my friend, as I , her degrading insults, and her more would have been wise in Congreve to follow his master's example. He was precisely in that situation... | |
 | John Churton Collins - 1895 - 390 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. With these words, a fitting prelude to the solemn scene which was now close at hand, the old man took... | |
 | 1896 - 846 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 Dryden complained,... | |
 | Charles Edwyn Vaughan - 1896 - 366 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... | |
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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,... 
