 | 1813 - 536 pagina’s
...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....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." If Congreve andVanbrugh had taken the same method... | |
 | John Watkins - 1821 - 1570 pagina’s
...Congreve, Vanbrugh, Drake, and Dr. Filmer ; but Dryden very candidly acknowledged his error, saying, " 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 warfare was carried on briskly ten years,... | |
 | John Watkins - 1822 - 452 pagina’s
...instead of bullying the critic and justifying himself, he made a frank confession of his error, and said: "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." Happy will it be, if the future biographer of... | |
 | John Watkins - 1822 - 452 pagina’s
...instead of bullying the critic and justifying himself, he made a frank confession of his error, and said: "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." 408 PISA. Happy will it be, if the future biographer... | |
 | Walter Scott - 1826 - 526 pagina’s
...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....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.» To this manly and liberal admission, he has... | |
 | Walter Scott - 1826 - 532 pagina’s
...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....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.» To this manly and liberal admission, he has... | |
 | 1826 - 370 pagina’s
...If he be mine enemy, let him triumph; if be 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 defence of a bad cause, when I have so oflen drawn it for a good one." If Congreve and Vanburgh had... | |
 | sir Walter Scott (bart [prose, collected]) - 1827 - 488 pagina’s
...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....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. Yet it were not difficult to prove, that, in many... | |
 | sir Walter Scott (bart [prose, collected]) - 1827 - 564 pagina’s
...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....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." To this manly and liberal admission, he has indeed... | |
 | Walter Scott - 1829 - 344 pagina’s
...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....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." To this manly and liberal admission, he has indeed... | |
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... 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. If he be my enemy, let him triumph; if he be my... 
