 | Walter Scott - 1829 - 344 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 - 1834 - 516 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 ; ljut I managed my own... | |
 | Thomas Campbell - 1841 - 844 pàgines
...character of Zimri in mjr Absalom is in my opinion worth the whole poem : it is not bloody, but it is resent it as an injury. If I had railed, I might have suflvrrd for It justly : but I managed my own... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1854 - 468 pàgines
...character of Zimri in my ' Absalom ' is in my opinion worth the whole poem : it IB not bloody, but it ia 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 - 1854 - 324 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... | |
 | Henry Reed - 1857 - 424 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... | |
 | John Dryden - 1867 - 556 pàgines
...character of Ziinri in my " Absalom." is, in my opinion, worth the whole poem : it is not bloody, but it is rsh,] , - resent it as an injury. If I had railed, I might have suffered for it justly; but I managed my own... | |
 | John Milton - 1869 - 588 pàgines
...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 bloody,...And he for whom it was intended, was too witty to resent it as an injury. If I had raÜ'd, I might have suffer'd for it justly : But I manag'd my own... | |
 | 1868 - 690 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 I avoided the mention of great crimes, and applied myself to the representing... | |
 | George Villiers Duke of Buckingham - 1869 - 156 pàgines
...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 bloody,...And he for whom it was intended, was too witty to resent it as an injury. If I had rail'd, I might have suffcr'd for it justly : But I manag'd 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. 
