 | 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... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1993 - 776 pages
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 | Steven Lukes - Philosophers - 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... | |
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