 | James Russell Lowell - 1890 - 388 pagina’s
...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 so often drawn it for a good one." 2 And in a letter to his correspondent, Mrs.... | |
 | Robert William Lowe - 1891 - 210 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." * Those who are curious to learn fuller details... | |
 | Robert William Lowe - 1891 - 212 pagina’s
...as I have given him no Personal Occasion to otherwise, he will be glad of my Repentance. It beconfes me not to draw my Pen in the Defence of a bad Caup> when I have so often drawn it for a good one." * Those who are curious to learn fuller details... | |
 | 1891 - 878 pagina’s
...If lie 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.' But Dryden complained, and fairly, that his antagonist... | |
 | John Dryden, William Dougal Christie - 1893 - 780 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. Yet it were not difficult to prove that in many... | |
 | Sir Henry Craik - 1894 - 648 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. Yet it were not difficult to prove, that, in many... | |
 | Sir Henry Craik - 1894 - 674 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. Yet it were not difficult to prove, that, in many... | |
 | Sir Henry Craik - 1894 - 648 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. Yet it were not difficult to prove, that, in many... | |
 | 1896 - 324 pagina’s
...spectacle of this doughty master of satire standing in convicted silence before his indignant reprover. " It becomes me not to draw my pen in the defence of a bad cause when I have so often drawn it in a good one, ' ' he said, and thenceforward ceased to offend,... | |
 | 1896 - 846 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.' But Dryden complained, and fairly, that his antagonist... | |
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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... 
