 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
 | Leslie Stephen - Poets, English - 1902 - 724 pages
...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, are not so formidable ; and what I hear of your morals inclines me to... | |
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1904 - 136 pages
...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 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... | |
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1903 - 136 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 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... | |
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1903 - 294 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... | |
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1903 - 136 pages
...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 so formidable; and what I hear of your morals, inclines me to... | |
 | George Gilbert Ramsay - Latin language - 1903 - 456 pages
...imposture ; I think it an imposture still. In 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 so formidable ; and what I hear of your morals inclines me to... | |
 | James Boswell - 1904 - 1590 pages
...think a cheat, by the menaces of a ruffian. ' What would you have me retract ? I thought your book bit continued till my fourteenth year ; and still I find a great reluctance to go to church. publick, which I here dare you to refute. Your rage I defy. Your abilities, since your Homer, are not... | |
 | John Semple Smart - Bards and bardism in literature - 1905 - 256 pages
...cheat, from any fear of 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 - Authors, English - 1907 - 626 pages
...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,-}- are not so formidable : and what I hear of your morals inclines me... | |
 | Henry Grey Graham - Authors, Scottish - 1908 - 441 pages
...from detecting what I think a cheat from any fear of the menaces of a Euffian. 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 confute. Your rage I defy, your abilities, since your Homer, are not so formidable, and... | |
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