 | John Dryden - 1901 - 384 pàgines
...his translation of Juvenal (Works, ed. Scott, xiii. 95). He concludes : ' The character of " Zimri " is, in my opinion, worth the whole poem. It is not...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 pàgines
...Character of Zimri in my Absalom, is, in my Opinion, worth the whole Poem : 'Tis 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 sufier'd for it justly: But I manag'd my own... | |
 | James Russell Lowell - 1904 - 352 pàgines
...the reader would be kind enough to think it belongs to me. The character of Zimri in my * Absalom ' is, in my opinion, worth the whole poem. It is not...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 pàgines
...author, who wrote thus of it in his Discourse on Satire (1692): "The character of Zimri, in my 'Absalom,' is, in my opinion, worth the whole poem; it is not...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 pàgines
...character of Zimri in my Absalom is, in my opinion, worth the whole poem: 't is not bloody, but 't is 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... | |
 | John Dryden - 1909 - 1112 pàgines
...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 pàgines
...of 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... | |
 | University of Nebraska (Lincoln campus) - 1914 - 498 pàgines
...and Progress of the Satire (1693), ibid., XIII, p. 1 ff. 26 " The character of Zimri in my Absolom is, in my opinion, worth the whole poem : it is not bloody, but it is ridiculous enough : ... If I had railed, I might have suffered for it justly: ... I avoided the mention of great crimes,... | |
 | Myron Harmon Swenk - 1914 - 468 pàgines
...Origin and Progress of the Satire (1693), ibid., XIII, p. Iff. 20 " The character of Zimri in my Absolom is, in my opinion, worth the whole poem: it is not bloody, but it is ridiculous enough: ... If I had railed, I might have suffered for it justly: ... I avoided the mention of great crimes,... | |
 | Milton D. Baumgartner - 1914 - 100 pàgines
...and Progress of the Satire (1693), ibid., XIII, p. I ff. 26 " The character of Zimri in my Absolom is, in my opinion, worth the whole poem : it is not bloody, but it is ridiculous enough : ... If I had railed, I might have suffered for it justly: ... I avoided the mention •of great crimes,... | |
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The 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. 
