 | Alexander Pope - 1872 - 192 pages
...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 insolence ! To all but heav'n-directed hands deny'd, The Muse may give thee, but the Gods must guide ! Rev'rent I touch thee... | |
 | Alexander Pope - English poetry - 1872 - 168 pages
...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 insolence ! To all but heav'n-directed hands deny'd, The Muse may give thee, but the Gods must guide: Rev'rent I touch thee... | |
 | 1872 - 566 pages
...Thackeray, he attacks by every means in his power, and most of all with the bitterness of ridicule— 11 О sacred weapon, left for Truth's defence, Sole dread of Folly, Vice, and Insolence I To all but heaven-directed hands denied, The muse may give thce, but the gods must guide." The gods... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1872 - 744 pages
...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 insolence ! ' 1 Jaiihet, Chartres : ' see the epistle to Lord Bathurst.— P. VARIATIONS. VER. 185 in the MS.—... | |
 | Samuel Austin Allibone - Quotations, English - 1875 - 794 pages
...a rhyme, Sacred to ridicule his whole life long, And the sad burthen of some merry song. POPE. Oh ! sacred weapon, left for truth's defence, Sole dread...; The muse may give thee, but the gods must guide. POPE. Leave dang'rous truths to unsuccessful satire. POPE. Yet soft his nature, though severe his lay;... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1878 - 532 pages
...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 dread...may give thee, but the gods must guide : Reverent I tuuch thee ! but with honest zeal ; To rouse the watchman of the public weal, To virtue's work provoke... | |
 | Samuel Austin Allibone - Quotations, English - 1878 - 788 pages
...a rhyme, Sacred to ridicule his whole life long, And the sad burthen of some merry song. POPE. Oh ! sacred weapon, left for truth's defence, Sole dread...; The muse may give thee, but the gods must guide. POPE. Leave dang'rous truths to unsuccessful satire. POPE. Yet soft his nature, though severe his lay;... | |
 | James Comper Gray - 1878 - 402 pages
...deservedly punished when they have lost their old minister.1' Tlie poner and use of satire. — Oh, sacred weapon, left for truth's defence, Sole dread...; The muse may give thee, but the gods must guide. Rev 'rent I touch thee, but with honest zeal, To rouse the watchmen of the public weal ; To virtue's... | |
 | Laura Valentine - 1880 - 634 pages
...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...denied, The Muse may give thee, but the gods must guide. Rev'rent l touch thee ! but with honest zeal, To rouse the watchmen of the public weal ; To virtue's... | |
 | English literature - 1881 - 622 pages
...own way of living. So too the keynote of the ' Epilogue to the Satires ' is Selfassertion : — ' 0 sacred weapon left for Truth's defence, Sole dread...may give thee, but the Gods must guide : Reverent I touoh thee, but with honest zeal ; To rouse tho watchmen of the public weal, To Virtue's work provoke... | |
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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. O sacred weapon ! left for Truth's defence, Sole dread of folly, vice, and insolence... 
