 | John Dryden - 1800 - 712 sayfa
...Poets, to excuse their guilt, alledge for themselves, that the degeneracy of the age makes their ' I shall say the less of Mr. Collier,' because in many things he has taxed me justly ; and lewd way of writing necessary : they pretend the auditor? will not be pleased, unless they are thus... | |
 | John Dryden - 1800 - 674 sayfa
...religion and virtue. Whoever makes this his choice, vrhen the other was in his power, may he go off" I have pleaded guilty to all thoughts and expressions of mine, which can be truly argued of the stage unpitied, complaining of neglect and poverty, the just punishments of his irreligion... | |
 | John Dryden - 1800 - 674 sayfa
...religion and virtue. Whoever makes this his choice, vrtien the other was in his power, may he go off I have pleaded guilty to all thoughts and expressions of mine, which can be truly argued of the stage unpitied, complaining of neglect and poverty, the just punishments of his ir religion... | |
 | John Bell - 1807 - 458 sayfa
...had the baseness, not to acknowledge his benefactor ; but instead of it, to traduce me in a libel. I shall say the less of Mr. Collier, because in many...thoughts and expressions of mine, which can be truly argued of obscenity, profaneness, or immorality ; and retract them. If he be my enemy, let him triumph... | |
 | John Dryden, Walter Scott - 1808 - 564 sayfa
...magnanimity to acknowledge its justice. In the preface to the Fables, he makes the amende honorable. " I shall say the less of Mr Collier, because in many...thoughts and expressions of mine, which can be truly argued of obscenity, profaneness, or immorality, and retract them. If he be my enemy, let him triumph... | |
 | John Dryden - 1808 - 500 sayfa
...he had the baseness not to acknowledge his benefactor, but, instead of it, to traduce me in a libel. I shall say the less of Mr Collier, because in many...thoughts and expressions of mine, which can be truly argued of obscenity, profaneness, or immorality, and retract them. If he be my enemy, let him triumph... | |
 | John Dryden, Walter Scott - 1808 - 478 sayfa
...might be, he was too mu< h conscience-struck to attempt a defence of what was really indefensible. " I shall say the less of Mr Collier, because in many...thoughts and expressions of mine, which can be truly argued of obscenity, profaneness, or immorality, and retract them. If he he my enemy, let him triumph... | |
 | John Dryden, Walter Scott - 1808 - 476 sayfa
...by profession," said the wag ; " and you know t\io of a trade can never agree. "—Gibber's Apology, many things he has taxed me justly ; and I have pleaded...thoughts and expressions of mine, which can be truly argued of obscenity, profaneness, or immorality, and retract them. If he be my enemy, let him triumph... | |
 | John Dryden - 1808 - 486 sayfa
...by profession," said the wag ; " and you know two of a trade can never agree,"— Gibber1! Apology. many things he has taxed me justly ; and I have pleaded...thoughts and expressions of mine, which can be truly argued of obscenity, profaneneis, or immorality, and retract them. If he be my enemy, let him triumph... | |
 | David Phineas Adams, William Emerson, Samuel Cooper Thacher - 1809 - 446 sayfa
...gentleman and a Christian, he replied : " I shall say the less of Mr. Collier, because in many things he taxed me justly, and I have pleaded guilty to all thoughts and expressions of mine, which may truly be argued of obscenity, profaneness or immorality, and retract them. If he be my enemy, let... | |
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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. 
