 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
 | Alexander Pope - 1847 - 566 pages
...the MS. I grant it, Sir ; and further, 'tis agreed, Japhet writ not, and Chartres scarce-could read. 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 shamed by ridicule alone. O sacred weapon ! left for truth's defence, Sole dread... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1847 - 546 pages
...that he has congratulated himself in those exulting lines : " Yes, I am proud, I must be proud to sec Men not afraid of God, afraid of me ; 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 Pope entered... | |
 | Alexander Pope, William Charles Macready - 1849 - 646 pages
...dialogue. See the Epistle to Lord Bathurst. From Terence : — So impudent, I own myself no knave : So odd, my country's ruin makes me grave. Yes, I am...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, vice, and... | |
 | George William F. Howard (7th earl of Carlisle.) - 1850 - 52 pages
...bad. When truth or virtue an affront endures, Th' affront is mine, my friend, and should be your». Yes, I am proud, I must be proud to see, Men not afraid...throne, Yet touch'd and sham'd by ridicule alone. О sacred weapon ! left for truth's defence, Sole dread of folly, vice, and insolence ! To all but... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1850 - 510 pages
...I am no slave ; So impudent, I own myself no knave; So odd, my country's ruin makes me grave. Yet, I am proud : I must be proud to see Men not afraid...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, vice, and... | |
 | 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...Throne, Yet touch'd and sham'd by Ridicule alone. (Epilogue to the Satires, 11.208- 1 1 ) "The Bar, the Pulpit, and the Throne": these stands are indeed... | |
 | 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...Throne, Yet touch'd and sham'd by Ridicule alone. O sacred Weapon! left for Truth's defence, Sole Dread of Folly, Vice and Insolence! To all but Heav'n-directed... | |
 | Joseph Epstein - 1992 - 340 pages
...in the business, clearly reveled in his own high reputation as a verbal killer: Yes, I am proud; and must be proud, to see Men not afraid of God afraid of me. Such a boast set up its own natural rejoinder, and in a bit of put-down Ping-Pong, Lord Hervey, whom... | |
 | 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...Throne, Yet touch'd and sham'd by Ridicule alone. But Jonathan Swift, who had joined their conversation, observed that, in fact, most people enjoyed... | |
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