 | Lady Morgan (Sydney) - English literature - 1829 - 244 pages
...glide from us. And leave us at eve on the bleak shoro alone," VOL. II. RIDICULE. " Yes, I am proud,—I must be proud, to see Men, not afraid of God, afraid of me." How long was he lashed, tortured, reviled, calumniated, and misrepresented in character, feeling, religion,... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1830 - 500 pages
...mankind. F. You're strangely proud. I '. So proud, I am no slave ; So impudent, I own myself no knave ; chain ; And here, e'en then, shall my cold dust remain...to mil with thine. Ah, wretch ! believed the spouse shamed by ridicule alone. О sacred weapon ! left for Truth's defence, Sole dread of folly, vice, and... | |
 | William Cobbett - Great Britain - 1830 - 1046 pages
...that it is Borougkland, we recover ourselves, and clap honest JONATHAN upon the back, while he says, " Yes, I am proud ; I must be proud to see " Men not afraid of God, afraid of me." Aye, and afraid of them they are ; and God bless him, for the ten thousandth time I say, for his valour... | |
 | Anna Brownell Jameson - Women in literature and art - 1832 - 378 pages
...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... | |
 | Gilbert Burnet (bp. of Salisbury.) - Great Britain - 1833 - 458 pages
...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...bar, the pulpit, and the throne, Yet touch'd, and thamed, by ridicule alone* Pope. ' Yet, what can satire, whether grave, or gay ? . . It may correct... | |
 | Gilbert Burnet - Great Britain - 1833 - 492 pages
...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 ? . .... | |
 | Joseph O'Leary, A Cork artist - Irish literature - 1833 - 244 pages
...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,... | |
 | Joseph O'Leary - 1833 - 250 pages
...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... | |
 | Horace Smith - 1833 - 958 pages
...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... | |
 | Alexander Pope - English poetry - 1835 - 382 pages
...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. Yes, I am...throne, 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 heaven-directed... | |
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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. 
