 | John Dryden - 1800 - 712 pages
...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 pages
...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 and... | |
 | John Dryden - 1800 - 674 pages
...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 and... | |
 | John Bell - 1807 - 458 pages
...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...expressions of mine, which can be truly argued of obscenity, profaneness, or immorality ; and retract them. If he be my enemy, let him triumph ; if he be my fnend,... | |
 | John Dryden, Walter Scott - 1808 - 564 pages
...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...expressions of mine, which can be truly argued of obscenity, profaneness, or immorality, and retract them. If he be my enemy, let him triumph ; if he be my friend,... | |
 | John Dryden - 1808 - 500 pages
...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...expressions of mine, which can be truly argued of obscenity, profaneness, or immorality, and retract them. If he be my enemy, let him triumph ; if he be my friend,... | |
 | John Dryden, Walter Scott - 1808 - 478 pages
...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...expressions of mine, which can be truly argued of obscenity, profaneness, or immorality, and retract them. If he he my enemy, let him triumph ; if he be my friend,... | |
 | John Watkins - 1808 - 768 pages
...profanely writ, Let them to fire, their due desert, commit. • In the preface to his fables, he says : " I shall say the less of Mr. Collier, because in many...thoughts and expressions of mine, which can be truly arraigned of obscenity, profaneness, or immorality, and retract them. If he be my enemy let him triumph... | |
 | John Dryden, Walter Scott - 1808 - 476 pages
...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...expressions of mine, which can be truly argued of obscenity, profaneness, or immorality, and retract them. If he be my enemy, let him triumph ; if he be my friend,... | |
 | John Dryden - 1808 - 486 pages
...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...expressions of mine, which can be truly argued of obscenity, profaneneis, or immorality, and retract them. If he be my enemy, let him triumph ; if he be my friend,... | |
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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. 
