| Alexander Pope - 1859 - 384 pages
...myself no knave ; So odd, my country's ruin makes me grave. Tes, 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. O sacred weapon ! left for truth's defence, Sole dread of... | |
| Edward Isidore Sears, David Allyn Gorton, Charles H. Woodman - Periodicals - 1860 - 606 pages
...treat with contempt, triumphantly exclaiming with the poet, " Yes, I am proud ; I must bo 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." We might easily fill our article with observations, however... | |
| John Holmes Agnew, Walter Hilliard Bidwell - American periodicals - 1860 - 624 pages
...edge of his satire shrank those who feared nothing else — " Yes, I am proud ; I must be proud to seo Men not afraid of God, afraid of me ; Safe from the bar, the pulpit, and the throoe, Yet touched and shamed by ridicule alone." His skill as a literary artist arose rather from... | |
| James Anthony Froude, John Tulloch - Authors - 1860 - 896 pages
...remarkably melodious ; and in later Yes, I am proud ; I must be proud to see Men not afraid of Qod, afraid of me ; Safe from the bar, the pulpit, and the throne, Yet touch' d and shamed by ridicule alone. His skill as a literary artist arose ject the ' arts of... | |
| English literature - 1861 - 192 pages
...couplets as prompted by " the just antipathy of good to bad," and acknowledges himself — " Proud to see, Men not afraid of God, afraid of me, Safe from the bar, the altar, arid the throne, Yet slmraed and cowed by ridicule alone." The cause of good sense, virtue,... | |
| Alexander Pope - 1863 - 388 pages
...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 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... | |
| George William Frederick Howard Earl of Carlisle - Ireland - 1866 - 656 pages
...endures, Th' affront is mine, my friend, and should bo yours. 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. O sacred weapon ! left for truth's defence, Sole dread of... | |
| Alexander Pope - 1867 - 628 pages
...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...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 of folly, vice, and... | |
| Alexander Pope - 1867 - 520 pages
...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 bar, the pulpit, and the throne, Yet touched and shamed by ridicule alone. O sacred weapon! left for truth's defence, Sole dread of... | |
| Aristophanes - 1868 - 216 pages
..."facit ii.dignatio versum," or Pope's no less famous — " 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." 326-372 The pulpit, not satire, is the proper coi rector... | |
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