 | John Dryden - 1800 - 712 страници
...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 страници
...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 страници
...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 страници
...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 страници
...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 страници
...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 страници
...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 страници
...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 страници
...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 страници
...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. 
