 | 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 of a bad caufe, when I " have fo often drawn it for a good one." If mr. CongreveDryden'j and fir John Vanbru^h... | |
 | 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 of a bad caufe, when I " have fo often drawn it for a good one." If mr. CongreveDrydsn's ?nd fir John Vanbrugh... | |
 | 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 a bad caufe, when I have fo often drawn it for a good one. Yet it were not difficult to prove, that in many... | |
 | 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 a bad caufe, when I have fo often drawn it for a good one. Yet it were not difficult to prove, that in many... | |
 | 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 a bad caufe, when I have fo often drawn it for a good one. Yet it were not difficult to prove, that in many... | |
 | John Horne Tooke - English language - 1798 - 566 pages
...fitting, proper, &c. to raife the liege.] « 30. In Favour of, on the Part of, on the Side <?/; As .** —It becomes me not to draw my pen in the defence of a •* Bad caufe, when I have fo often drawn it FOR a good one? [ie A good one being the Caufe of drawing it.]... | |
 | Biography - 1798 - 604 pages
...friend, as I have given him no perfonal occafion to be otherwise, 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 fo often drawn it for a good one." If Congreve and Vanbrugh had taken the fame method... | |
 | John Horne Tooke - English language - 1798 - 554 pages
...fitting, proper, &c. to raife the fiege.] " 30. In Favour of, on the Part of, on the Side of} As « — // becomes me not to draw my pen in the defence of a " bad caufe, when I have fo often drawn it FOR a good one? [ie A good one being the Caufe of drawing it.]... | |
 | John Dryden - 1800 - 674 pages
...kindness to requite ; One made the Doctor, and one dubb'd the Knight 3 See p. 596. na - } light."-' 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 places he has perverted my meaning by his glosses... | |
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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... 
