 | John Horne Tooke - 1857 - Počet stránok 812
...30. In favour of, on the part of, on the side of; As — It l/ccomes me not to draio my pen in t/ie defence of a bad cause, when I have so often drawn it FOR a good one" pe A good one being the Cause of drawing it.] ''31. Noting Accommodation, or Adaptation; As — Persia... | |
 | Charles Knight - 1859 - Počet stránok 536
...poet acknowledges, "In many things he has taxed me justly. ... It becomes not me to draw my pen in defence of a bad cause, when I have so often drawn it for a good one." Dryden maintains, however, that Fletcher's " Custom of the Country " is more offensive than any of... | |
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1860 - Počet stránok 1008
...he, " Mr. Collier be my enemy, let him triumph. If he be my friend, as I have given him no personal occasion to be otherwise, he will be glad of my repentance." It would have been wise in Congreve to follow his master's example. He was precisely in that situation... | |
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1860 - Počet stránok 444
...he, " Mr. Collier be my enemy, let him triumph. If he be my friend, as I have given him no personal occasion to be otherwise, he will be glad of my repentance." It would have been wise in Congreve to follow his master's example. He was precisely in that situation... | |
 | John Dryden, Richard Hooper - 1866 - Počet stránok 334
...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 otherwise, he will be glad of my repentance. It becomes me not to draw ray pen in the defence of a bad cause, when I have so often drawn it for a good one." It is pleasing... | |
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1866 - Počet stránok 758
...he, " Mr. Collier be my enemy, let him triumph. If he be my friend, as I have given him no personal occasion to be otherwise, he will be glad of my repentance." It would have been wise in Congreve to follow his master's example. He was precisely in that situation... | |
 | 1868 - Počet stránok 690
...considers the undue severity of his censor) he had the manliness to confess that he had done wrong. " It becomes me not to draw my pen in the defence of...cause, when I have so often drawn it for a good one." f And in a letter to his correspondent, Mrs. Thomas, written only a few weeks before his death, warning... | |
 | Walter Scott, J. M. W. (Joseph Mallord William) Turner - 1869 - Počet stránok 486
...retrai't them If he be my enemy, let him triumph ; if he be my Mend, as I have given him no personal occasion to be otherwise, he will be glad of my repentance....cause, when I have so often drawn it for a good one." To this manly and liberal admission, he has indeed tacked a complaint, that Collier had sometimes,... | |
 | James Russell Lowell - 1898 - Počet stránok 396
...considers the undue severity of his censor) he had the manliness to confess that he had done wrong. " It becomes me not to draw my pen in the defence of...cause, when I have so often drawn it for a good one." f And in a letter to his correspondent, Mrs. Thomas, written only a few weeks before his death, warning... | |
 | JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL. A.M. - 1870 - Počet stránok 604
...considers the undue severity of his censor) he had the manliness to confess that he had done wrong. " It becomes me not to draw my pen in the defence of...bad cause, when I have so often drawn it for a good one.1 And in a letter to his correspondent, Mrs. Thomas, written only a few weeks before his death,... | |
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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, let him triumph; if he... 
