 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 becomes me not to draw my pen in the defence of a bad cause, when I have so often drawn it for a good one.  The Port Folio - Page 480edited by - 1816Full view - About this book
 | JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL. A.M. - 1870 - 604 pages
...considers the undue severity of his censor) he had the manliness to confess that he had done wrong. " It becomes me not to draw my pen in the defence of...cause, when I have so often drawn it for a good one. 1 And in a letter to his correspondent, Mrs. Thomas, written only a few weeks before his death, warning... | |
 | James Russell Lowell - New England - 1898 - 396 pages
...considers the undue severity of his censor) he had the manliness to confess that he had done wrong. " It becomes me not to draw my pen in the defence of a bad cause, when I have ao often drawn it for a good one." f And in a letter to his correspondent, Mrs. Thomas, written only... | |
 | Edward Gibbon - Chivalry - 1870 - 380 pages
...be truly accused of obscenity, 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 occasion to be otherwise, he will be glad of my repentance. It becomes me not to draw my pen in the... | |
 | Hippolyte Taine - English literature - 1871 - 564 pages
...be truly argued of obscenity, profaneness, or immorality, and retract them. If he be my enemy, let him triumph ; if he be my friend, as I have given...to be otherwise, he will be glad of my repentance. 1 * There is some wit in what follows : ' He (Collier) is too much given to horseplay in his raillery,... | |
 | Hippolyte Taine - English literature - 1871 - 586 pages
...be truly argued of obscenity, profaneness, or immorality, and retract them. If he be my enemy, let him triumph ; if he be my friend, as I have given...to be otherwise, he will be glad of my repentance.' * t There is some wit in what follows : ' He (Collier) is too much given to horseplay in his raillery,... | |
 | Hippolyte Adolphe Taine - 1871 - 570 pages
...be truly argued of obscenity, profaneness, or immorality, and retract them. If he he my enemy, let him triumph ; if he be my friend, as I have given...to be otherwise, he will be glad of my repentance.' * There is some wit in what follows : I' He (Collier) is too much given to horseplay in his raillery,... | |
 | Henry Morley - English literature - 1873 - 964 pages
...be truly argued of obscenity, profaneness, or immorality, and retract them. ' If he be my enemy, let him triumph; if he be my friend, as I have given him...cause, when I have so often drawn it for a good one." But of Collier's style Dryden added, " I will not say,' The zeal of God's house has eaten him up;'... | |
 | John Dryden - 1874 - 740 pages
...be truly argued of obscenity, profaneness, or immorality; and retract them. If he be my enemy, let him triumph; if he be my friend, as I have given him...cause, when I have so often drawn it for a good one. Yet it were not difficult to prove, that in many places he has perverted my meaning by his glosses;... | |
 | James Russell Lowell - New England - 1874 - 400 pages
...considers the undue severity of his censor) he had the manliness to confess that he had done wrong. " It becomes me not to draw my pen in the defence of...cause, when I have so often drawn it for a good one." f And in a letter to his correspondent, Mrs. Thomas, written only a few weeks before his death, warning... | |
 | Thomas Budd Shaw - American literature - 1874 - 446 pages
...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, as I have given him...personal occasion to be otherwise, he will be glad of my repentance."—Dryden,—Preface to Fables. place belongs to Thomas Otway (1651-1685), who died at... | |
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