 | James Russell Lowell - 1890 - 384 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... | |
 | James Russell Lowell - 1890 - 410 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... | |
 | James Russell Lowell - 1890 - 388 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... | |
 | James Russell Lowell - 1891 - 402 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...bloody, but it is ridiculous enough, and he for whom it wag intended was too witty to resent it as an injury. .... I avoided the mention of great crimes, and... | |
 | John Dryden - 1893 - 384 sidor
...his translation of Jnvenal (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... | |
 | John Dryden, William Dougal Christie - 1893 - 780 sidor
...sketch of Buckingham. "The character of Zimri in my Absalom," Dryden writes in his "Essay en Satire," "is, in my opinion, worth the whole poem : it is not bloody, tut it i> ridiculous enough : and he for whom it is intended was too witty to resent it as an injury.... | |
 | John Dryden - 1895 - 266 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...but it is ridiculous enough: and he, for whom it was in« \ / tended, was too witty to resent it as an injury. If I had railed, I might have suffered for... | |
 | George Villiers Duke of Buckingham - 1895 - 176 sidor
...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 suffer'd for it justly : But I manag'd my own... | |
 | George Villiers Duke of Buckingham - 1895 - 182 sidor
...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 suffer'd for it justly : But I manag'd my own... | |
 | John Dryden - 1900 - 760 sidor
...my Absalom," Dryden writes in his "Essay on Satire," " is, in my opinion, worth the whole poem : jt is not bloody, but it is ridiculous enough : and he for whom it is intended was too witty to resent it as an injury. If I had railed, I might have suffered for it... | |
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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. 
