 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...  Epea pteroenta: or, The diversions of Purley ... - Page 375by John Horne Tooke - 1798 - 534 pagesFull view - About this book
 | John Dryden - Fables - 1713 - 614 pages
...have given him noPerfonal Occafion to be otherwife, he will be glad of my Repentance. It becomes roe not to draw my Pen in the Defence of a bad Caufe, when I have fo often drawn it for a good one. Yet it were not difficult to prove, that in many Places he has perverted jny Meaning by his Glofles... | |
 | John Dryden - English poetry - 1760 - 526 pages
...friend, as I have given him no peribnal occafion to be otherwife, he will be glad of my repentance. It becomes me not to draw my pen in the defence of a bad cauie, when I have fo often drawn it for a good one. Yet it were not difficult to prove, that in many... | |
 | New and general biographical dictionary - 1761 - 600 pages
...friend, " as I have given him no perfonal occafion to be otherwife, " he will be glad of my repentance. It becomes me not " to draw my pen in the defence...caufe, when I " have fo often drawn it for a good one." If mr. CongreveDryden'j and fir John Vanbru^h had taken the fame method with mr. preface to Dryden,... | |
 | Biography - 1761 - 614 pages
...friend, " as 1 have given him no perlbnal occafion to be otherwife, " he will be glad of my repentance. It becomes me not " to draw my pen, in the defence...caufe, when I " have fo often drawn it for a good one." If mr. CongreveDrydsn's ?nd fir John Vanbrugh had taken the fame method with mr. preface to L/iyden,... | |
 | John Dryden - English poetry - 1767 - 396 pages
...friend, as I have given him no perfonal occafion to be otherwife, he will be glad of my repentance. It becomes me not to draw my pen in the defence of...caufe, when I have fo 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 glofles... | |
 | John Dryden - English poetry - 1767 - 392 pages
...friend, as I have given him no perfonal occafion to be otherwife, he will be glad of my repentance. It becomes me not to draw my pen in the defence of...caufe, when I have fo 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 glofles... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - English poetry - 1779 - 360 pages
...friend, as I have given him no perfonal occafion to be otherwife, he will be glad of my repentance. It becomes me not to draw my pen in the defence of...caufe, when I have fo 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 gloiTes... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - English poetry - 1779 - 364 pages
...friend, as I have given him no perfonal occafion to be othcrwife, he will be glad of my repentance. It becomes me not to draw my pen in the defence of a bad caufe, when I have (b often drawn it for a good one. Yet it were not difficult to prove, that • in many places he has... | |
 | English poets - 1790 - 352 pages
...friend, as I have given him ao perfonal occafion to be otherwife, he will be glad of roy repentance. It becomes me not to draw my pen in the defence of...caufe, when I have fo 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 gloffes;... | |
 | Robert Anderson - English poetry - 1795 - 806 pages
...personal occaCon to be otherwife, he will be glad of my repentance. It becomes me not to draw my pen in defence of a bad caufe, when I have fo 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 gloffes... | |
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