 | Alexander Pope - 1872 - 192 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...me : Safe from the bar, the pulpit, and the throne, 210 Yet touch'd and sham'd by ridicule alone. O sacred weapon ! left for truth's defence, Sole dread... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1872 - 168 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...me : Safe from the bar, the pulpit, and the throne, 210 Yet touch'd and sham'd by ridicule alone. O sacred weapon ! left for truth's defence, Sole dread... | |
 | Henry Reeve - 1872 - 448 pages
...of this stamp are guarded and fenced about with pride. Saint-Simon might have said with Pope — ' Yes, I am proud : I must be proud to see Men not afraid of God, afraid of me.' But that pride is hallowed which restrains a man from low indulgences or base compliance. The light... | |
 | George Gordon Byron Byron (baron).) - 1873 - 380 pages
...And shrink from ridieule, though not from law. [The sentiment is from Pope : — " Yes I am prond, I must be proud, to see Men, not afraid of God, afraid of me : Safe from the bar, tlie pulpit, and the throne, Yet toueh'd and shamed by ridieule alone."] 6.— Page 156, line 2S. Fa.rfd... | |
 | David Daiches - 1979 - 336 pages
...Pope's beautifully modulated claim to have earned the fear of those who lack even the fear of God: Yes, I am proud; I must be proud to see Men not afraid...throne, Yet touched and shamed by ridicule alone. . . . Pope's most sustained satirical work is The Dunciad, a mock-heroic poem whose history is both... | |
 | Gregory G. Colomb - 1992 - 260 pages
...and TheDunciad's pillory would thereafter be the model for Pope's sense of his role as a poet.10 1 must be proud to see Men not afraid of God, afraid...Safe from the Bar, the Pulpit, and the Throne, Yet touch'd and sham'd by Ridicule alone. (Epilogue to the Satires, 11.208- 1 1 ) "The Bar, the Pulpit,... | |
 | H. B. Nisbet, Claude Rawson - 2005 - 978 pages
...energy, confidence, and self-righteousness in the second dialogue of the Epilogue to the Satires (1738): 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 sham'd by Ridicule alone. O sacred Weapon! left for Truth's defence, Sole Dread of Folly,... | |
 | Carl R. Woodring, James Shapiro - 2007 - 764 pages
...sometimes a statement of resignation felt as victory, sometimes as heroic boast delivered as satiric wit: Yes, I am proud; I must be proud to see Men not afraid of God, afraid of me. . . . And, in perhaps Pope's most dazzling moment, he links this triumphant claim for satire not only... | |
 | Steven Lukes - 1995 - 284 pages
...Pope, were Communitarians so hypersensitive? In reply Pope told him how effective ridicule could be: 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 sham'd by Ridicule alone. But Jonathan Swift, who had joined their conversation, observed... | |
 | George Hughes - 1997 - 274 pages
...had consolidated his financial independence. There is sincere passion in the Epilogue to the Satires: 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 sham'd by Ridicule alone. O sacred weapon! left for Truth's defence, Sole Dread of Folly,... | |
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Yes, I am proud; I must be proud to see Men not afraid of God afraid of me: Safe from the Bar, the Pulpit, and the Throne, Yet touched and shamed by ridicule alone. 
