 | 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 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... | |
 | George Hughes - Literary Criticism - 1997 - 274 pages
...had consolidated his financial independence. There is sincere passion in the Epilogue to the Satires: 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!... | |
 | Alexander Pope - Poetry - 1998 - 260 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 bar, the pulpit, and the throne, 210 Yet touched and shamed by ridicule alone. O sacred... | |
 | Connie Robertson - Reference - 1998 - 686 pages
...Ask you what provocatlon I have had? The strong antipathy of good to bad. 8925 Imitations of Horace girl perba 8926 Light quirks of music, broken and uneven, Make the soul dance upon a jig of heaven. 8927 A man... | |
 | Sangharakshita (Bhikshu) - Philosophy - 1998 - 312 pages
...of the local priest? This is the kind of frailty that draws the withering scorn of Alexander Pope: Yes, I am proud; I must be proud to see Men not afraid of God, afraid ofme.')l It is therefore safer not to rely entirely on one's ability to fear the discommendation of... | |
 | Alan Jacobs - Christianity and literature - 1998 - 188 pages
...imagine Juvenal, impossible to imagine Horace, saying what Pope says near the end of his epilogue:"! must be proud to see / Men not afraid of God, afraid of me" (701). In making such comments Pope was merely inheriting Dryden's verdict on Horace ("a Temporizing... | |
 | Howard Anderson - Aesthetics - 1967 - 429 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. (11. 205-9) Pope feels he cannot become a friend of those in power, for to do so would necessitate... | |
 | Joseph Twadell Shipley - Foreign Language Study - 2001 - 688 pages
...which OE prud, E proud, whence pride. Caustic Alexander Pope exulted in his power: Yes, I am proud, and must be proud, to see Men not afraid of God afraid of me. Lord Herney put him in his place: The mighty honour of that boast is such That hornets and mad dogs... | |
 | Charles A. Knight - Literary Criticism - 2004 - 341 pages
...satirist may admit his arrogance, thus seeking to compensate for negative pride by positive frankness: "Yes, I am proud; I must be proud to see / Men not afraid of God, afraid of me" (Pope, "Epilogue to the Satires: Dialogue n," lines 208-09). Alternatively, the satirist may create... | |
 | Anna Murphy Jameson - Literary Criticism - 2005 - 472 pages
...something in satire which excites only the lowest and worst of our propensities. That avowal in Pope — I must be proud to see Men not afraid of God, afraid of me!1 — has ever filled me with terror and pity. MEDON. From its truth, perhaps? ALDA. From its arrogance... | |
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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 touch'd and sham'd by ridicule alone. 
