 What would you have me retract? I thought your book an imposture; I think it an imposture still. For this opinion I have given my reasons to the public, which I here dare you to refute. Your rage I defy. Your abilities, since your Homer, are not so formidable,...  Lives of Scottish Poets - Page 142by Joseph Robertson - 1822 - 378 pagesFull view - About this book
 | James Boswell - 1874 - 602 pages
...think a cheat, by the menaces of a ruffian. " What would you have me retract ? I thought your book an imposture ; I think it an imposture still. For this opinion I have given my reasons to the publick, which I here dare you to refute. Your rage I defy. Your abilities, since your Homer, are not... | |
 | Sir Leslie Stephen - 1878 - 226 pages
...I think a cheat by the menaces of a ruffian. " What would you have me retract 1 I thought your book an imposture : I think it an imposture still. For this opinion I have given my reasons to tho public, which I here dare you to refute. Your rage I defy. Your abilities, since your Homer, are... | |
 | Leslie Stephen - Authors, English - 1879 - 224 pages
...I think a cheat by the menaces of a ruffian. " What would you have me retract 1 I thought your book an imposture : I think it an imposture still. For...I here dare you to refute. Your rage I defy. Your abilities, since your Homer, are not so formidable ; and what I hear of your morals inclines me to... | |
 | Authors, English - 1880 - 556 pages
...think a cheat by the menaces of a ruffian. '• What would yon have me retract f I thought your book an imposture ; I think it an imposture still. For...given my reasons to the public, which I here dare yon to refute. Your rage I defy. Your abilities, since your Homer, are not so formidable, and what... | |
 | George Gilfillan - 1881 - 368 pages
...think a cheat by the menaces of a ruffian. ' What would you have me to retract t I thought your book an imposture. I think it an imposture still For this...opinion I have given my reasons to the public, which I dare you to refute. Your rage I defy. Your abilities, since your Homer, are not so formidable, and... | |
 | Samuel Austin Allibone - American literature - 1882 - 1192 pages
...menaces of ft ruffian. What would you have me retract? I thought >'our book an imposture: 1 thiiik it an imposture still. For this opinion I have given...I here dare you to refute. Your rage I defy. Your abilities, since Yum Homer, are not BO formidable; and what 1 hear of your morals incline* me to pay... | |
 | Thomas Sergeant Perry - Literary Criticism - 1883 - 500 pages
...what I think a cheat by the menaces of a ruffian. What would you have me retract? I thought your book an imposture ; I think it an imposture still. For...I here dare you to refute. Your rage I defy. Your abilities, since your ' Homer,' f are not so formidable ; and * So that even before Lessing he drove... | |
 | James Boswell - Authors, English - 1884 - 634 pages
...think a cheat, by the menaces of a ruffian. " What would you have me retract ? I thought your book an imposture ; I think it an imposture still. For...I here dare you to refute. Your rage I defy. Your abilities, since your Homer,1 are not so formidable ; and what I hear of your morals inclines me to... | |
 | James Hay - Johnson, Samuel, 1709-1784 - 1884 - 376 pages
...think a cheat, by the menaces of a ruffian. " What would you have me retract ? I thought your book an imposture ; I think it an imposture still. For...I here dare you to refute. Your rage I defy. Your abilities, since your Homer, are not so formidable ; and what I hear of your morals inclines me to... | |
 | James Boswell - 1884 - 634 pages
...think a cheat, by the menaces of a ruffian. " What would you have me retract ? I thought your book an imposture ; I think it an imposture still. For...I here dare you to refute. Your rage I defy. Your abilities, since your Homer, 2 are not so formidable; and what I hear of your morals inclines me to... | |
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