| David Nichol Smith - 1918 - 398 sidor
...Edition. 1681. (11. 543-68.) Dryden is his own best critic : ' The Character of Zimri in my Ahsalom, 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... | |
| Mark Van Doren - 1920 - 382 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... | |
| 1917 - 1446 sidor
...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 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 - 1926 - 342 sidor
...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... | |
| John Dryden - 1946 - 232 sidor
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| Mark Van Doren - 1946 - 322 sidor
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| John Dryden - 1950 - 1176 sidor
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