 | John Dryden - 1901 - 384 pągines
...: ' The character of " Zimri " 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. ... I avoided the mention of great crimes, and applied myself to the representing... | |
 | George Villiers Duke of Buckingham - 1902 - 144 pągines
...if the Reader wou'd be kind enough t* think it belongs to me. The Character of Zimri in my Absalom, is, in my Opinion, worth the whole Poem : 'Tis not...And he for whom it was intended, was too witty to resent it as an injury. If I had rail'd, I might have sufier'd for it justly: But I manag'd my own... | |
 | James Russell Lowell - 1904 - 352 pągines
...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. ... I avoided the mention of great crimes, and applied myself to the representing... | |
 | Walter Cochrane Bronson - 1908 - 562 pągines
...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... | |
 | John Dryden - 1909 - 1112 pągines
...belongs to me. The character of Zimri in my Absalom is, in my opinion, worth the whole poem: 't is not bloody, but 'tis ridiculous enough; and he for whom it was intended was too witty to resent it as an injury. If I had rail'd, I might have suffer'd for it justly; but I manag'd my own... | |
 | Joseph Berg Esenwein, Mary Eleanor Roberts - 1913 - 336 pągines
...Buckingham. "The character ... is not bloody," says Dryden himself in his " Discourse on Satire," "but it is ridiculous enough, and he for whom it was intended was too witty to resent it as an injury." One of the passages which holds the Duke up to ridicule is this lampoon, which... | |
 | Franklyn Bliss Snyder, Robert Grant Martin - 1916 - 530 pągines
...In his Discourse Concerning Satire Dryden afterwards wrote: " The character of Zimri in my Absalom is, in my opinion, worth the whole poem: 'tis not...enough; and he for whom it was intended was too witty to resent it as an injury." 585. Shimti. Slingsby Bethel, whom the Whigs had elected one of the two Sheriffs... | |
 | Franklyn Bliss Snyder, Robert Grant Martin - 1916 - 566 pągines
...In his Discourse Concerning Satire Dryden afterwards wrote: " The character of Zimri in my Absalom is, in my opinion, worth the whole poem: 'tis not bloody, but 'tis ridiculous enough; and ht for whom it was intended was too witty to resent it as an injury." 585. Shimei. Slingsby Bothel,... | |
 | David Nichol Smith - 1918 - 398 pągines
...Edition. 1681. (11. 543-68.) Dryden is his own best critic : ' The Character of Zimri in my Ahsalom, is, in my Opinion, worth the whole Poem : "Tis not...And he for whom it was intended, was too witty to resent it as an injury. If I had rail'd, I might have suffer'd for it justly : But I manag'd my own... | |
 | Mark Van Doren - 1920 - 382 pągines
...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. 
