 | John Dryden - 1901 - 384 sidor
...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 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 sufier'd for it justly: But I manag'd my own... | |
 | James Russell Lowell - 1904 - 352 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... | |
 | Walter Cochrane Bronson - 1908 - 562 sidor
...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 sidor
...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 sidor
...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 sidor
...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 sidor
...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 sidor
...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 sidor
...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. 
