| 1917 - 1446 pàgines
...attacked Buckingham's follies rather than his vices. '"Tis not bloody,' he said of the character, ' but 'tis 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, William Congreve, Samuel Johnson, Walter Scott - 1925 - 230 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 - 1926 - 342 pàgines
...character 25 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... | |
| David Daiches - 1979 - 336 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 o\vn... | |
| H. B. Nisbet, Claude Rawson - 2005 - 978 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: 'tis not bloody, but 'tis ridiculous enough. (Dryden, Of Dramatic Poesy, II, pp. 136-7) By this token he is now not so sure of Horace's primacy:... | |
| 1925 - 538 pàgines
...himself says must not be overlooked : " The character of Zimri," he writes,• " in my Absalom, is in my Opinion, worth the whole Poem : 'Tis not bloody,...enough. And he for whom it was intended was too witty to regard it as an injury." If the Duke had been in any way responsible for the Reflections, it is improbable... | |
| David Nichol Smith - 1966 - 112 pàgines
...the Reader wou'd be kind enough to think it belongs to me. The Character ofZimri 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 suffer 'd for it justly: But I manag'd my own... | |
| 1895 - 744 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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