 | H. B. Nisbet, Claude Rawson - Literary Criticism - 2005 - 978 pages
...the second dialogue of the Epilogue to the Satires (1738): 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... | |
 | Steven Lukes - Fiction - 1995 - 284 pages
...hypersensitive? In reply Pope told him how effective ridicule could be: 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. But Jonathan Swift, who had joined their conversation, observed... | |
 | George Hughes - Literary Criticism - 1997 - 274 pages
...independence. There is sincere passion in the Epilogue to the Satires: 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 - Poetry - 1998 - 260 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 touched and shamed 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. 
