 | Alexander Pope - English poetry - 1872 - 168 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 sham'd by ridicule alone. O sacred weapon ! left for truth's defence, Sole dread of folly, vice, and... | |
 | Alexander Pope - English poetry - 1872 - 192 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 sham'd by ridicule alone. O sacred weapon ! left for truth's defence, Sole dread of folly, vice, and... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1872 - 744 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. 0 sacred weapon ! left for truth's defence, Sole dread of folly, vice, and... | |
 | George Gordon Byron Byron (baron).) - 1873 - 380 pages
...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... | |
 | Jacques Claude Demogeot - French literature - 1874 - 408 pages
...famous "facit indignatio 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 corrector... | |
 | William Cowper - 1874 - 260 pages
...famous "facit indignatio 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 cot rector... | |
 | Alexander Pope - Poetry - 1963 - 884 pages
...130n. 204. From Terence: 'Homo sum: humani nihil a me alienum puto' [P]. Heautontimorumenos, l. 77. 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 of Folly, Vice, and... | |
 | Yasmine Gooneratne - Literary Criticism - 1976 - 164 pages
...have seemed a God-given way out of a psychological morass: Yes, I am proud; I must be proud to see 208 Men not afraid of God, afraid of me: Safe from the Bar, the Pulpit, and the Throne, O sacred Weapon! left for Truth's defence, Sole Dread of Folly, Vice, and Insolence! To all but Heav'n-directed... | |
 | David Daiches - 1979 - 336 pages
...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 of God, afraid of me: Safe from the bar, the pulpit, and the throne, Yet touched and shamed by ridicule alone. . . . Pope's most sustained satirical work is The Dunciad,... | |
 | Gregory G. Colomb - Literary Criticism - 1992 - 260 pages
...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 of me: 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,... | |
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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. 
