 | John Dryden - 1897 - 764 sidor
...character of Zimri in my Absalom," Dryden writes in his "Essay on Satire," "is, in my opinion/worth the whole poem : it is not bloody, but it is ridiculous enough : and he for whom it is intended was too willy to resent it as an injury. If I had railed, I might have suffered for it... | |
 | William Swinton - 1880 - 694 sidor
...body, and leaves it standing in its place. . . . The character of Zimri, in my Absalom and Ackitophel, is, in my opinion, worth the whole poem. It is not bloody, but it is ridiculous enough." Show, in any point, the application of this remark to the characterization of Buckingham. VII. JONATHAN... | |
 | John Dryden - 1882 - 320 sidor
...if 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...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... | |
 | Walter Scott - 1882 - 484 sidor
...from his quoting it as the master-piece of his own satire. " 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 him it was intended, was too witty to resent it as an injury. If I had railed, I might have suffered... | |
 | Thomas Sergeant Perry - 1883 - 500 sidor
...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... | |
 | Thomas Sergeant Perry - 1883 - 498 sidor
...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... | |
 | Thomas Sergeant Perry - 1883 - 490 sidor
...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...but it is ridiculous enough, and he for whom it was int.pndprl was ton wif.ty to. resent it as an injury. . . . I avoided the mention of great crimes,... | |
 | William Swinton - 1886 - 690 sidor
...body, and leaves it standing in its place. . . . The character of Zimri, in my Absalom and Achitophel, is, in my opinion, worth the whole poem. It is not bloody, but it is ridiculous enough." Show, in any point, the application of this rem&'k to the characterization of Buckingham. VII. JONATHAN... | |
 | John Dryden - 1887 - 420 sidor
...reader) would be kind enough to think it belongs to me./ The character of Ziniri in my " Absalom," is, in my opinion, worth the whole poem : it is not}...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... | |
 | James Russell Lowell - 1887 - 408 sidor
...the reader would be kind enough to think it belongs to me. The character of Zinari 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... | |
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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. 
