 | George Hogarth - 1838 - 494 Seiten
...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,...cause, when I have so often drawn it for a good one." It does not appear that such an amende honorable as this was made by any other of the dramatic writers... | |
 | Thomas Curtis (of Grove house sch, Islington) - 1839 - 864 Seiten
...for which ye strive are found in Scripture ; but those not against which we strive. Hooker. Prffact. It becomes me not to draw my pen in the defence of...cause, when I have so often drawn it for a good one. Drydm. Jove was for Venus ; but he feared his wife. Id, Noting accommodation or adaptation. Fortune,... | |
 | Jeremy Collier - 1840 - 656 Seiten
...profaneness, and 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,...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. Yet, it were not difficult to... | |
 | John Horne Tooke - 1840 - 808 Seiten
...raise the siege.] "30. In favour of, on the part of,, on the side of; As — It becomes me not to diaw my pen in the defence of a bad cause, when I have so often drawn it FOR a good one." [ie A good one being the Cause of drawing it.] "31. Noting Accommodation, or Adaptation ; As — Persia... | |
 | 1841 - 602 Seiten
...justly reproved. ' If,' said he, ' Mr Collier be my ' enemy, let him triumph. If he be my friend, as 1 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... | |
 | Samuel Greatheed, Daniel Parken, Theophilus Williams, Josiah Conder, Thomas Price, Jonathan Edwards Ryland, Edwin Paxton Hood - 1842 - 760 Seiten
...profaneness, or immorality — and I 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,...cause, when I have so often drawn it for a good one." p. 74. It must be further remembered, that his reverend and wellmeaning antagonist could be a little... | |
 | 1842 - 740 Seiten
...profaneness, or immorality — and I 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,...cause, when I have so often drawn it for a good one." p. 74. It must be further remembered, that his reverend and wellmeaning antagonist could be a little... | |
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1843 - 438 Seiten
...been 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... | |
 | Elizabeth Stone - 1845 - 472 Seiten
...immorality, and retract them. If he be my enemy, let him triumph ; if he be my friend, as I have given him no occasion to be otherwise, he will be glad of my repentance....cause, when I have so often drawn it for a good one." Shakspeare, although " born with a star on his forehead," which shall shine through all ages, was obscured... | |
 | Walter Scott - 1847 - 426 Seiten
...him triumph ; if he be my friend, as I have given him no occasion to be otherwise, he will be glad ot my repentance. It becomes me not to draw my pen in the defence of a bad cause, when I have BO often drawn it for a good one. Yet It were not difficult to prove, that, in many places, he has... | |
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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,... 
