 | John Dryden - 1866 - 326 pages
...subsequent preface to his Fables observes, " 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 canbe truly argued of obscenity, profaneness, or immorality, and retract them. If he be my enemy let... | |
 | John Dryden - 1867 - 556 pages
...though ho had the baseness not to acknowledge his benefactor ; but instead of it, to traduce me ha libel b b b prof.meness, or immorality ; and retract them. If ho be my enemy, let him triumph ; if he be my friend,... | |
 | Walter Scott, J. M. W. (Joseph Mallord William) Turner - 1869 - 486 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 retrai't them If he be my enemy, let him triumph ; if he be my Mend,... | |
 | John Dryden - 1897 - 764 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,... | |
 | Hippolyte Taine - 1871 - 564 pages
...corrupter of morals, he endured this coarse reproof, and nobly confessed the faults of his youth : ' 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,... | |
 | Hippolyte Adolphe Taine - 1871 - 570 pages
...corrupter of morals, he endured this coarse reproof, and nobly confessed the faults of his youth : ' 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,... | |
 | Hippolyte Taine - 1871 - 586 pages
...corrupter of morals, he endured this coarse reproof, and nobly confessed the faults of his youth: ' I shall say the less of Mr. Collier, because in many things he has taxed me justly ; and 1 have pleaded guilty to all thoughts and expressions of mine which can be truly argued of obscenity,... | |
 | Henry Morley - 1873 - 964 pages
...the impertinences of Sir Richard Blackmore ; but of Jeremy Collier he wrote, " I shall say the less, because in many things he has taxed me justly ; 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 ; if he be my friend,... | |
 | John Dryden - 1874 - 740 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,... | |
 | Thomas Budd Shaw - 1874 - 446 pages
...theirs. Among the exclusively tragic dramatists of this epoch the first * CD Tonge. t " I shall say less of Mr. Collier, because in many things he has...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,... | |
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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. 
