 | 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... | |
 | 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... | |
 | 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... | |
 | 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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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 be... 
