 | Samuel Johnson - 1818 - 410 ページ
...thoughts or expressions of mine that " can be truly accused of obscenity, immorality, or pro" faneness, and retract them. If he be my enemy, let "-him triumph; if he be my friend, he will be glad of " my repentance." Yet as our best dispositions are imperfect, he left standing in... | |
 | Ezekiel Sanford - 1819 - 466 ページ
...decorations. ' The monuments of my master's actions,' answered Prior, 'are to be seen every where but can be truly argued of obscenity, profaneness, or...retract them. If he be my enemy, let him triumph; il' he be my fricnd, as I have given him no personal occasion to be otherwise, he will be glad to be... | |
 | Ezekiel Sanford - 1819 - 448 ページ
...of Dryden, p. 330. t ' I shall say the less of Mr. Collier, (says he, in the preface to the Fables,} because, in many things, he has taxed me justly; and I have pleaded guilty to aU droughts and expressions of mine, whit h as he was much more sensitive to ridicule than logic, we... | |
 | Samuel Johnson, Arthur Murphy - 1820 - 466 ページ
...thoughts or expressions of mine that can be truly " accused of obscenity, immorality, or profaneness, " and retract them. If he be my enemy, let him " triumph ; if he be my friend, he will be glad of " repentance." Yet as our best dispositions are imperfect, he left standing in the... | |
 | Samuel Johnson, Arthur Murphy - 1820 - 476 ページ
...thoughts or expressions of mine that can be truly accused of obscenity, immorality, or profaneness, and retract them. If he be my enemy, let him triumph ; if he be my friend, he will be glad of my repentance." Yet as our best dispositions are imperfect, he left standing in... | |
 | Samuel Johnson, Arthur Murphy - 1823 - 652 ページ
...thoughts or expressions of mine that can be truly accused of obscenity, immorality, or profaneness, and retract them. If he be my enemy, let him triumph ; if he be my friend, he will be glad of my repentance." Yet, as our best dispositions are imperfect, he left standing in... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1825 - 504 ページ
...thoughts or expressions of mine that can be truly accused of obscenity, immorality, or profaneness, and retract them. If he be my enemy, let him triumph; if he be my friend, he will be glad of my repentance." Yet, as our best dispositions are imperfect, he left standing in... | |
 | Richard Ryan - 1825 - 526 ページ
...in terms becoming a gentleman : — " 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 may be argued of obscenity, profaneness, or immorality, and retract them. If he be my enemy, let him... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1825 - 674 ページ
...thoughts or expressions of mine that can be truly accused of obscenity, immorality, or profaneness, and retract them. If he be my enemy, let him triumph ; if he be my friend, he will be glad of my repentance." Yet, as our best dispositions are imperfect, he left standing in... | |
 | Reuben Percy - 1826 - 386 ページ
...upon this occasion in his preface to his Fables, does much credit to his candour and good sense. " I shall say the less of Mr. Collier, because in many...thoughts and expressions of mine, which can be truly arraigned of obscenity, profaneness, or immorality, and retract them. If he be mine enemy, let him... | |
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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. 
