 | John Dryden - Fables - 1713 - 614 pages
...Guilty to all Thoughts and Expreffions of mine, which can be truly nrgtfd of Obfcenity, Profanenefs, or Immorality \ and retract them. If he be my Enemy, let him triumph * if he be my Friend, as 1 have given him noPerfonal Occafion to be otherwife, he will be glad of my Repentance. It becomes... | |
 | John Dryden - English poetry - 1760 - 526 pages
...guilty to all thoughts and exprefiions of mine, which can be truly argued of obfcenity, profanenefs, or immorality ; and retract them. If he be my enemy,...triumph •, if he be my friend, as I have given him no perfonal occafion to be otherwife, he will be glad of my repentance. It becomes me not to draw my pen... | |
 | New and general biographical dictionary - 1761 - 600 pages
...to all thoughts " and expreffions of mine, which can be truly arraigned of " obfcenity, profanenefs, or immorality, and retract them. " If he be my enemy,...triumph ; if he be my friend, " as I have given him no perfonal occafion to be otherwife, " he will be glad of my repentance. It becomes me not " to draw... | |
 | Biography - 1761 - 614 pages
...to all thoughts " and expreflions of mine, which can be truly arraigned of " obfcenity, profanenefs, or immorality, and retract them. " If he be my enemy, let him triumph ; if he be my friend, " as 1 have given him no perlbnal occafion to be otherwife, " he will be glad of my repentance. It becomes... | |
 | John Dryden - English poetry - 1767 - 392 pages
...expreffions of mine, which can be truly argued of obfcenity, profanenefs, or immorality ; and retraft them. If he be my enemy, let him triumph ; if he be my friend, as I have given him no perfonal occafion to be otherwife, he will be glad of my repentance. It becomes me not to draw my pen... | |
 | John Dryden - English poetry - 1767 - 396 pages
...expreffions of mine, which can be truly argued of obfcenity, profanenefs, or immorality ; and retraft them. If he be my enemy, let him triumph ; if he be my friend, as I have given him no perfonal occafibn to be otherwife, he will be glad of my repentance. It becomes me not to draw my pen... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - English poetry - 1779 - 360 pages
...enemy, let him triumph ; if he be my friend, as I have given him no perfonal occafion to be otherwife, he will be glad of my repentance. It becomes me not to draw my pen in the defence of a bad caufe, when I have fo often drawn it for a good one. Yet it were not difficult to prove, that in many... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - English poetry - 1779 - 356 pages
...expreffions of mine, which can be truly argued of obfcenity, profanenefs, or immorality ; and retraft them. If he be my enemy, let him triumph ; if he be my friend, as I have given him no perfonal occafion to be otherwife, he will be glad of my repentance. It becomes me not to draw my pen... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - English poetry - 1779 - 716 pages
...expreflions of mine, which can be truly argued of obfcenity, profanenefs, or immorality ; and retraft them. If he be my enemy, let him triumph ; if he be my friend, as I have given him co perfonal occa(ion to be otherwife, he will be glad of my repentance. It becomes me not to draw my... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1781 - 484 pages
...exprejjions of mine that can be truly accufed of obfcenity, immorality, or profanenefs, and ret raff them. If he be my enemy, let him triumph; if he be my friend ', he will be glad of my repentance. Yet, as our beft difpofitions are imperfect, he left ftanding... | |
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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,... 
