 | George William Frederick Howard Earl of Carlisle - Slavery - 1851 - 54 pages
...bad. When truth or virtue an affront endures, Th' affront is mine, my friend, and should be yours. Yes, I am proud, I must be proud to see, Men not afraid...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 folly,... | |
 | Alexander Pope - English poetry - 1851 - 628 pages
..., So impudent, I own myself no knave ; So odd, my country's ruin makes me grave. Yes, I am prcud : I must be proud to see Men not afraid of God, afraid...Safe from the bar, the pulpit, and the throne, Yet t-uch'd and shamed by ridicule alone. O p».cred weapon ! left for Truth's defence, S >le dread of... | |
 | Henry Schroder - Yorkshire (England) - 1852 - 450 pages
...bad. When truth or virtue an affront endures, Th' affront is mine, my friend, and should be yours. Yes, I am proud, I must be proud to see, Men not afraid...Safe from the bar, the pulpit, and the throne, Yet touch'd and sham'd by ridicule alone. 0 sacred weapon ! left for truth's defence, Sole dread of folly,... | |
 | Henry Schroeder - 1852 - 424 pages
...endures, Yes, I am proud, I must be proud to see, Th' affront is mine, my friend, and should be yours. Men not afraid of God, afraid of me: Safe from the bar, the pulpit, and the throne, Yet touch'd and shuni'd by ridicule alone. O sacred weapon ! left for truth's defence, Sole dread of folly,... | |
 | Catherine Sinclair - Anti-Catholicism - 1852 - 424 pages
...flagrant vices; and many a Pope, at Home, might have quoted the lines of Pope, the poet, — " I own I'm proud;— I must be proud, to see Men not afraid of God afraid of me." Who could believe in a religion which justifies its followers in doing wrong! yet the twelve Caesars... | |
 | Gregory G. Colomb - Literary Criticism - 1992 - 260 pages
...and TheDunciad's 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...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,... | |
 | H. B. Nisbet, Claude Rawson - Literary Criticism - 2005 - 978 pages
...energy, confidence, and self-righteousness in the second dialogue of the Epilogue to the Satires (1738): Yes, I am proud; I must be proud to see Men not afraid...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 Folly,... | |
 | Joseph Epstein - Fiction - 1992 - 340 pages
...in the business, clearly reveled in his own high reputation as a verbal killer: Yes, I am proud; and must be proud, to see Men not afraid of God afraid of me. Such a boast set up its own natural rejoinder, and in a bit of put-down Ping-Pong, Lord Hervey, whom... | |
 | Carl R. Woodring, James Shapiro - Literary Criticism - 2007 - 764 pages
...sometimes a statement of resignation felt as victory, sometimes as heroic boast delivered as satiric wit: Yes, I am proud; I must be proud to see Men not afraid of God, afraid of me. . . . And, in perhaps Pope's most dazzling moment, he links this triumphant claim for satire not only... | |
 | Steven Lukes - Fiction - 1995 - 284 pages
...Pope, were Communitarians so hypersensitive? In reply Pope told him how effective ridicule could be: Yes, I am proud; I must be proud to see Men not afraid...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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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. 
