| Vicesimus Knox - 1809 - 604 pages
...;•) '. So impudent, I own myself no knave ; ' So odd, my country's ruin makes me grave. 3 Yes, 1 A 2 : touch'd and sham'u by ridicule alone. O sacred weapon ! left for truth's defence ; Sole dread of folly,... | |
| Alexander Chalmers - 1810 - 536 pages
...proud, I am no slave : So impudent, I own myself no knave : So odd, my country's rnin makes me grave. Yes, I am proud ; I must be proud to see Men not afraid...Safe from the bar, the pulpit, and the throne, Yet touch'd and shainM by ridicule alone. O sacred weapon ! left for "Truth's defence, Sole iir ji 1 of... | |
| Alexander Pope - 1812 - 230 pages
...slave ; 205 "\ So impmU'nl , I own myself no knave ; \ So odd, my country's ruin makes me grave. \ Yes, I am proud; I must be proud to see Men not afraid...me; Safe from the bar, the pulpit, and the throne, 210 Yet touch'd and sbam'd by ridicule alone. O sacred weapon ! left for truth's defence, Some dread... | |
| Alexander Pope - 1812 - 348 pages
...no slave : So impudent, I own myself no knave : 206 So odd, my country's ruin makes me grave. Yes, 1 am proud ; I must be proud to see Men not afraid of...me : Safe from the bar, the pulpit, and the throne, 21z< Yet touch'd and sham'd by ridicule alone. O sacred weapon ! left for truth's defence, Sole dread... | |
| 1822 - 290 pages
...proud, I am no slave; So impudent, I own myself no knave; So odd, my country's ruin makes me grave. Yes, I am proud; I must be proud to see Men, not afraid...Safe from the bar, the pulpit, and the throne, Yet touch'd and shamed by ridicule alone. O sacred weapon! left for Truth's defence, Sole dread of Folly,... | |
| Alexander Pope - 1822 - 452 pages
...I am no Slave : So impudent, I own myself no Knave : 206 So odd, my Country's Ruin makes me grave. Yes, I am proud ; I must be proud to see Men not afraid...me : Safe from the Bar, the Pulpit, and the Throne, 210 Yet touch'd and sham'd by Ridicule alone. NOTES. Ver. 204. And mine as Man, who feel for all Mankind.]... | |
| British poets - 1822 - 294 pages
...proud, I am no slave; So impudent, I own myself no knave; So odd, my country's ruin makes me grave. Yes, I am proud; I must be proud to see Men, not afraid of God, afraid of me; Safe from the har, the pulpit, and the throne, Yet touch'd and shamed by ridicule alone. O sacred weapon! left for... | |
| John Pierpont - 1823 - 492 pages
...knave : So odd, my country's ruin makes me grave. Yes, I am proud : I must be proud, to see Men riot afraid of God, afraid of me : Safe from the bar, the...defence, Sole dread of folly, vice, and insolence ! Reverent I touch thec ! but with honest zeal j To rouse the watchmen of the publick weal, To Virtue's... | |
| Alexander Pope, William Roscoe - 1824 - 498 pages
...qui se connoit, et qui fuit la lumiere, S'il ie mogue de Dieu, craint Tartuffe et Moliere. Wakejield. O sacred weapon ! left for truth's defence, Sole dread...denied, The muse may give thee, but the Gods must guide. Reverent I touch thee! but with honest zeal; To rouse the watchmen of the public weal, To virtue's... | |
| Alexander Pope, William Roscoe - 1824 - 694 pages
...reprehension ; nor is it without reason that he has congratulated himself in those exulting lines : Yes, I am proud, I must be proud to see Men not afraid...Safe from the bar, the pulpit, and the throne, Yet touch'd and shamed by ridicule alone. Such were the acquirements, talents, and dispositions, with which... | |
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