...applicable to persons in humble life — that, nevertheless, she had in view the well-known lines — " Safe from the bar, the pulpit, and the throne, Yet touched and moved by ridicule alone;" inasmuch as she represented in it, with much playfulness, an actual occurrence,...

...lash—something in satire which excites only the lowest and worst of our propensities. That line in Pope — I must be proud to see Men not afraid of God, afraid of me ! — has ever filled me with terror and pity, and sends me to think upon the opposite sentiment in...

...mixed lies with truth, sparing nothing that might adorn their poems, or gratify their revenge, * ' Yes, I am proud : I must be proud, to see Men, not...Safe from the bar, the pulpit, and the throne, Yet touch'd, and thamed, by ridicule alone* Pope. ' Yet, what can satire, whether grave, or gay ? . . It...

...write a satire without resentments, upon the cold notions of philosophy, was, as if a man would, * ' Yes, I am proud : I must be proud, to see Men, not...Safe from the bar, the pulpit, and the throne, Yet touch' d, and shamed, by ridicule alone.' Forx> ' Yet, what can satire, whether grave, or gay ? . ....

...did punish and check much scouadrelism ; and in an eminent degree fulfilled the boast of its motto, " Yes ; I am proud, I must be proud to see " Men, not afraid of God, afraid of me." The times in which it first started were decidedly not very literary. Some pretenders to taste, not...

...did punish and check much scoundrelism ; and in an eminent degree fulfilled the boast of its motto, " Yes ; I am proud, I must be proud to see " Men, not afraid of God, afraid of me. ' ' The times in which it first started were decidedly not very literary. Some pretenders to taste,...

...virtue and religion might I not justly exclaim with the bard ' Yes, I confess that I am proud to sec Men not afraid of God afraid of me, Safe from the bar, the pulpit, and the throne, And shamed and awed by ridicule alone.' Such are the high and useful objects that justify the severity...

...mankind. F. You 're strangely proud. P. So proud, I am no slave : So impudent, I own myself no knave : 206 So odd, my country's ruin makes me grave. Yes, I am...me : Safe from the bar, the pulpit, and the throne, 210 Yet touch'd and shamed by ridicule alone. O sacred weapon, left for truth's defence ! Sole dread...

...And mine as man who feel for all mankind. F. You're strangely proud — P. So proud, I am no slave : So impudent, I own myself no knave : So odd, my country's ruin makes me grave. Y«s, I am proud : I must be proud, to see Men not afraid of God, afraid of me : Safe from the bar,...

...The poet's conquest truth and time proclaim, " But yet the battle hurt his peace and fame.(5) (1) Q" Yes, I am proud ; I must be proud to see Men not afraid...afraid of me ; Safe from the bar, the pulpit, and tlie throne, Yet touch'd and shamed by ridicule alone." POPE, Epilogue to Satires."] (2) Chartres was...