 | John Dryden - Fables - 1713 - 614 pages
...retract them. If he be my Enemy, let him triumph * if he be my Friend, as 1 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.... | |
 | John Dryden - English poetry - 1760 - 526 pages
...retract them. If he be my enemy, let him triumph ; if he be my friend, as I have given him no peribnal occafion to be otherwife, he will be glad of my repentance....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... | |
 | John Dryden - English poetry - 1767 - 396 pages
...retraft them. If he be my enemy, let him triumph; if he be my friend, as I have given him no perfonal occafion to be otherwife, he will be glad of my repentance....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
...retraft them. If he be my enemy, let him triumph ; if he be my friend, as I have given him no perfonal occafion to be otherwife, he will be glad of my repentance....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
...retraft them. If he be my enemy, let him triumph ; if he be my friend, as I have given him no perfonal occafion to be otherwife, he will be glad of my repentance....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 - 352 pages
...them. If he be my enemy, let him triumph ; if he be my friend, as I have given him no perfonal occaf:on to be otherwife, he will be glad of my repentance....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... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - English poetry - 1779 - 364 pages
...enemy, let him triumph ; if he be my friend, as I have given him no perfonal occafion to be othcrwife, he will be glad of my repentance. It becomes me not...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... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - English poetry - 1779 - 356 pages
...retraft them. If he be my enemy, let him triumph ; if he be my friend, as I have given him no perfonal occafion to be otherwife, he will be glad of my repentance....becomes me not to draw my pen in the defence of a ted caufe, when I have lb often drawn it for a good one. Yet it were not difficult to prove, that in... | |
 | English poets - 1790 - 352 pages
...if he be my 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...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
...them. If he be my enemy, let him triumph ; if he be my friend, t> 1 have given him no 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... | |
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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... 
