| William Cobbett - Great Britain - 1809 - 540 pages
...Po. So proud, I am uo* So impudent, I own 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...afraid of me : Safe from the bar, the pulpit, and the thront, Yet touch'd and sham'd by ridicule alone. O sacred weapon ! left for Truth't defe'K* Sole... | |
| Vicesimus Knox - English poetry - 1809 - 604 pages
...;•) '. So impudent, I own myself no knave ; ' So odd, my country's ruin makes me grave. 3 Yes, 1 am proud, I must be proud, to see Men not afraid of...afraid of me? Safe from the bar, the -pulpit, and the throne, Yet touch'd and sham'u by ridicule alone. O sacred weapon ! left for truth's defence ;... | |
| Alexander Chalmers - English poetry - 1810 - 536 pages
...proud, I am no slave : So impudent, I own myself no knave : So odd, my country's rnin makes me grave. Yes, I am proud ; I must be proud to see Men not afraid...afraid of me : Safe from the bar, the pulpit, and the throne, Yet touch'd and shainM by ridicule alone. O sacred weapon ! left for "Truth's defence,... | |
| Alexander Pope - 1812 - 230 pages
...slave ; 205 "\ So impmU'nl , I own 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...God, afraid of me; Safe from the bar, the pulpit, and the throne, 210 Yet touch'd and sbam'd by ridicule alone. O sacred weapon ! left for truth's defence,... | |
| Alexander Pope - 1812 - 348 pages
...no slave : So impudent, I own myself no knave : 206 So odd, my country's ruin makes me grave. Yes, 1 am proud ; I must be proud to see Men not afraid of...afraid of me : Safe from the bar, the pulpit, and the throne, 21z< Yet touch'd and sham'd by ridicule alone. O sacred weapon ! left for truth's defence,... | |
| Classical poetry - 1822 - 290 pages
...proud, I am no slave; So impudent, I own 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...God, afraid of me; Safe from the bar, the pulpit, and the throne, Yet touch'd and shamed by ridicule alone. O sacred weapon! left for Truth's defence, Sole... | |
| Alexander Pope - Poets, English - 1822 - 452 pages
...I am no Slave : So impudent, I own myself no Knave : 206 So odd, my Country's Ruin makes me grave. Yes, I am proud ; I must be proud to see Men not afraid...afraid of me : Safe from the Bar, the Pulpit, and the Throne, 210 Yet touch'd and sham'd by Ridicule alone. NOTES. Ver. 204. And mine as Man, who feel... | |
| British poets - Classical poetry - 1822 - 294 pages
...proud, I am no slave; So impudent, I own 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 har, the pulpit, and the throne, Yet touch'd and shamed by ridicule alone. O sacred weapon! left for... | |
| John Pierpont - Recitations - 1823 - 492 pages
...knave : So odd, my country's ruin makes me grave. Yes, I am proud : I must be proud, to see Men riot 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,... | |
| Alexander Pope - 1824 - 692 pages
...reprehension ; nor is it without reason that he has congratulated himself in those exulting lines : Yes, I am proud, I must be proud to see Men not afraid...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,... | |
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