| Colley Cibber - Actors - 1742 - 72 pages
...never to forgive Mey becaufe I had it in my Power to forgive Tou : For, as Dry den fays, Forgivenefsy to the Injur'd does belong ; But they ne'er pardon who have done the Wrong. This, Sir, is the only natural Excufe, I can form, for your being my Enemy. As to your blunt Aflertion... | |
| Eliza Fowler Haywood - English fiction - 1755 - 306 pages
...conceal can ever love the perfon by whom whom he is detected. — The words of the author I mention'd are thefe : * Forgivenefs to the injur'd does belong...impatience to fee how Deidamia would fupport the full convi&ion of her hufband's falfhood, fo much took up my mind, that it was a confiderable time before... | |
| Eliza Fowler Haywood - 1755 - 338 pages
...crime, rather for the perfon injured than the guilty one ; fo true is this feiitimeat of the poet, • forgivenefs to the injur'd does belong, But they ne'er pardon who have done tht wrong, H 5 Bur BJTT however the greatnefs of her fpirit might have foppo ted her againft the reproaches... | |
| Regina Maria Roche - Irish fiction - 1801 - 312 pages
...and was consequently determined to effect my destruction. So true is this remark.... " Forgiveness to the injur'd does belong ; " But they ne'er pardon who have done the wrong." «« Ere I had regained any degree of composure, the butler, who had been an inhabitant of the house... | |
| 1826 - 338 pages
...her : though I fear she rather pursues the rules observed in the following lines :— " Forgiveness to the injur'd does belong ; *' But they ne'er pardon who have done the wrong." That I have suffered much, is too evidential ; and though I neither proposed nor expected more than... | |
| John Dryden - English poetry - 1852 - 378 pages
...pardon'd foe ! A blush remains in a forgiven face; It wears the silent tokens of disgrace : Forgiveness to the injur'd does belong; But they ne'er pardon who have done the wrong. My hopeful fortune's lost! and, what's above All I can name or think, my ruin'd love ! Feign'd honesty... | |
| James Hamblin Smith - English language - 1876 - 184 pages
...smile, the flowers begin to' spring, The skies to brighten, and the birds to sing. (19) Forgiveness to the injur'd does belong, But they ne'er pardon who have done the wrong. (20) It has been observed, with ingenuity, and not without truth, that the command of iron soon gives... | |
| Philip Hugh Dalbiac - Quotations, English - 1897 - 526 pages
...Queene, Bk. I., Can. II., St. I. " The offender never pardons." HERBERT, jfacula Prudeatum. " Forgiveness to the injur'd does belong, But they ne'er pardon who have done the wrong." DRYDEN. The Conquest of Granada, Pt. II. (Zulema), Act I., Sc. II. " The officer who forgets that he... | |
| John Dryden, George Villiers Duke of Buckingham - English drama - 1910 - 570 pages
...Acliitophcl. Thus: A blush remains in a forgiven face: It wears the silent tokens of disgrace. Forgiveness to the injur'd does belong; But they ne'er pardon who have done the wrong.5 1. Part 1: IV. II. 471-480 (p. 57). 2. Defense of an Essay of Dramatic Poesy (Ss. il. ÏÎ03)... | |
| John Strong Perry Tatlock, Robert Grant Martin - English drama - 1916 - 860 pages
...been quoted: A blush remains in a forgiven face: It wears the silent tokens of disgrace. Forgiveness to the injur'd does belong: But they ne'er pardon who have done the wrong. Such passages, and even rhodomontade and commonplace, gain impressiveness by Drydcn's matchless style.... | |
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