 | John Dryden, Walter Scott - 1808 - 442 pàgines
...character cJf Zimri in my " Absalom," is, in my opinion, worth the whole poem : it is not bloody, but it is ridiculous enough ; and he, for whom it was intended, was too witty to resent it as an injury, f If I had railed, I might have suffered for it justly ; but I managed my own... | |
 | John Dryden - 1811 - 626 pàgines
...character of Zimri in my " Abfalom," is, in my opinion, worth the whole poem : it is not bloody, but it is ridiculous enough ; and he, for whom it was intended, was too witty torefent it as an injury. If I had railed, I might have fuffered for it juftly ; but I managed my own... | |
 | John Dryden - 1811 - 628 pàgines
...character of Zimri in my " Abfalom," is, in my opinion, worth the whole poem : it is not bloody, but it is ridiculous enough ; and he, for whom it was intended, was too witty torefent it as an injury. If I had railed, I might have fuffered for it juftly ; but I managed my own... | |
 | John Dryden, Walter Scott - 1821 - 440 pàgines
...character of Zimri in my " Absalom," is, in my opinion, worth the whole poem : it is not bloody, but it is ridiculous enough ; and he for whom it was intended was too witty to resent it as an injury.t If I had railed, I might have suffered for it justly ; but I managed my own... | |
 | British poets - 1822 - 296 pàgines
...character of Zimri, in my Absalom, is, in my opinion, worth the whole poem : it is not bloody, but it is ridiculous enough : and he for whom it was intended was too witty to resent it as an injury. If I had railed, I might have suffered for it justly; but I managed mine own... | |
 | 1826 - 450 pàgines
...reader would be kind enough «nough to think it belongs to me. The character of Zimri in my Abfalom, is, in my opinion, worth the whole poem : tis not...was too witty to refent it as an injury. If I had railed, I might have faffered for it juftly ; but I managed mine own Works more happily, perhaps more... | |
 | Walter Scott - 1826 - 532 pàgines
...higher or tragic plot is not only grosslv inartificial and improbable, but its incidents are diculous enough ; and he, for whom it was intended, was too witty to resent it as an injury. If I had railed, Imi{jht have suffered for it justly ; but I managed my own... | |
 | Walter Scott - 1826 - 526 pàgines
...higher or tragic plot is not only grossly inartificial and improbable, but its incidents are diculous enough ; and he, for whom it was intended, was too witty to resent it as an injury. If I had railed, I might have suffered for it justly ; but I managed my own... | |
 | sir Walter Scott (bart [prose, collected]) - 1827 - 564 pàgines
...character of Zimri in my ' Absalom,' is, in my opinion, worth the whole poem : it is not bloody, but it is ridiculous enough ; and he, for whom it was intended, was too witty to resent it as an injury. If I had railed, I might have suffered for it justly ; but I managed my own... | |
 | Walter Scott - 1827 - 566 pàgines
...character of Zimri in my ' Absalom,' is, in my opinion, worth the whole poem : it is not bloody, but it is ridiculous enough ; and he, for whom it was intended, was too witty to resent it as an injury. If I had railed, I might have suffered for it justly ; but I managed my own... | |
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Absalom is, in my opinion, worth the whole poem: it is not bloody, but it is ridiculous enough; and he, for whom it was intended, was too witty to resent it as an injury. 
