 | John Dryden - English poetry - 1760 - 526 pages
...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. 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
...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. 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
...let him triumph ; if he be my 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
...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. 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
...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. 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 - 356 pages
...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. It 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 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... | |
 | Robert Anderson - English poetry - 1795 - 806 pages
...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... | |
 | Biography - 1798 - 604 pages
...them. If he be my enemy, let him triumph ; if he be my friend, as I have given him no perfonal occafion to be otherwise, he will be glad of my repentance....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 - 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.]... | |
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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. If he be my enemy,... 
