 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 touch'd and sham'd by ridicule alone.  Bell's Edition - Page 205by John Bell - 1796Full view - About this book
 | Elizabeth Kantor - 2006 - 612 pages
...typical of eighteenth-century poetry — one concise and perfectly balanced thought in just two lines): "Yes, I am proud; I must be proud to see / Men not afraid of God afraid of me." Pope's Dunciad is a more ambitious MacFlecknoe: Pope takes on not just one ridiculous pretender to... | |
 | William Kupersmith - 2007 - 280 pages
...o'er my Grotto, and but sooths my Sleep," and Alexander Pope the scourge of the wicked, who boasts, "Yes, I am proud; I must be proud to see / Men not afraid of God, afraid of me," are not creations of modern criticism but of Pope's own self-portraits.1' Reading the Imitations with... | |
 | Pat Rogers - 2007
..."sacred Weapon" of satire in "Truth's defence," and reinterpreting Timon's pride, he wrote of himself: Yes, I am proud; I must be proud to see Men not afraid of God, afraid of me. (Epilogue to the Satires, n, 208-9) It is a gigantic claim, perhaps only equaled in English satire... | |
 | 1922 - 624 pages
...opinions and insists upon the organization doing as he dictates. In Pope's Epilogue to Satires, he says: "Yes I am proud, I must be proud to see Men not afraid of God afraid of me." The Egotist is a dangerous man to walk with. He never finds anyone with sense, save those who agree... | |
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