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, let him triumph ; if he be my friend, as I have given him no personal occasion to be... Lives of English poets - Pagina 380door Samuel Johnson - 1801Volledige weergave - Over dit boek
| Anna Buckland - 1882 - 548 pagina’s
...willingness to plead guilty, and retract every evil thought or expression, he says of his critic : " If he 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 becomes... | |
| Thomas Sergeant Perry - 1883 - 498 pagina’s
...thoughts and expressions of mine which can be truly argued of obscenity, profaneness, or immorality. If he be my enemy, let him triumph ; if he be my friend, as I have given him no per* John Dennis said : " Now there is no Nation in Europe, as has been observed... | |
| Thomas Sergeant Perry - 1883 - 500 pagina’s
...thoughts and expressions of mine which can be truly argued of obscenity, profaneness, or immorality. If he be my enemy, let him triumph ; if he be my friend, as I have given him no per* John Dennis said : " Now there is no Nation in Europe, as has been observed... | |
| 1884 - 610 pagina’s
...reasons for Johnson to be hostile to Milton ? 8. (a) Discuss Dryden's treatment of Paradise Lost. (J) " If he be my enemy let him triumph ; if he be my friend he will be glad of my repentance." In saying this, to what did Dryden refer ? (c) What private information had Johnson about... | |
| National cyclopaedia - 1884 - 626 pagina’s
...his fame by yielding to the demands of the court for loose comedies, at once kissed the rod: — " If he be my enemy let him triumph, if he be my friend he will be glad of my repentance. It becomes me not to draw my pen in defence of a bad cause, when I have so often drawn... | |
| Robert William Lowe - 1891 - 210 pagina’s
...Expressions of mine, which can be truly argu'd 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 Personal Occasion to be otherwise, he will be glad of my Repentance. It becomes... | |
| Robert William Lowe - 1891 - 212 pagina’s
...mine, which can be tr argu'd of Obscenity, Profaneness, or Immorality; and retr; , *1 ilty uly act them. If he be my Enemy, let him triumph ; if he be Friend, as I have given him no Personal Occasion to otherwise, he will be glad of my Repentance. It... | |
| Anna Swanwick - 1892 - 412 pagina’s
...expression of mine which can be truly argued of obscenity, profaneness, and 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, he will be glad of my repentance." This penitential... | |
| John Dryden, William Dougal Christie - 1893 - 780 pagina’s
...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, as I have given him no personal occasion to be otherwise, he will be glad of my repentance. It becomes... | |
| John Dryden - 1893 - 194 pagina’s
...View of the Profaneness and Immorality of the English Stage was an acknowledgment of its justice : " If he be my enemy let him triumph. If he be my friend, and I have given him no personal occasion to be otherwise, he will be glad of my repentance." On the... | |
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