| George Villiers Duke of Buckingham - 1895 - 176 sidor
...Reader wou d"Ee k"ln"fl 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 suffer'd for it justly : But I manag'd my own... | |
| George Villiers Duke of Buckingham - 1895 - 182 sidor
...the Reader wou'd 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,...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 - 1901 - 384 sidor
...: ' The character of " Zimri " 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 - 1902 - 144 sidor
...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 sufier'd for it justly: But I manag'd my own... | |
| James Russell Lowell - 1904 - 352 sidor
...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... | |
| Walter Cochrane Bronson - 1908 - 562 sidor
...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 - 1909 - 1112 sidor
...belongs to me. The 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
...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... | |
| Franklyn Bliss Snyder, Robert Grant Martin - 1916 - 468 sidor
...his Discourse Concerning Satire Dryden afterwards wrote: " The character of Zimri 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 resent it as an injury." 585. Shimei. Slingsby Bethel, whom the Whigs had elected one of the two Sheriffs... | |
| Franklyn Bliss Snyder, Robert Grant Martin - 1916 - 566 sidor
...his Discourse Concerning Satire Dryden afterwards wrote: " The character of Zimri in my Absalom is, in my opinion, worth the whole poem: 'tis not bloody, but 'tis ridiculous enough; and ht for whom it was intended was too witty to resent it as an injury." 585. Shimei. Slingsby Bothel,... | |
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