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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. "
The task, with intr. and notes by F. Storr - Page 87
by William Cowper - 1874
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Characteristics of Women, Moral, Poetical, and Historical

Mrs. Jameson (Anna) - 1837 - 400 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 ! —has ever filled me with terror and pi ty. MEDON. From its truth perhaps? ALDA. From its arrogance,...
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Poetical Works, Volume 4

George Crabbe - 1839 - 342 pages
...The poet's conquest truth and time proclaim, " But yet the battle hurt his peace and fame.(5) (1) [" 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 shamed by ridicule alone." POPE, Epilogue to Satires.'] (2) Chartres was a man infamous...
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The Dublin University Magazine, Volume 12

1838 - 726 pages
...heroes who were teaching its uttermost ends to tremble at their name, — Yea — I am proud — I roost be proud, to see Men not afraid of God, afraid of me. And its authority will be found as absolute at the court of Queen Victoria as it was at that of Queen...
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The poetical works of Alexander Pope. Ed. by H.F. Cary, with a biogr. notice ...

Alexander Pope - 1839 - 510 pages
...So odd, my country's ruin makes me grave. Yes, I am proud ; I must be proud to see Men, uot ali-aid of God, afraid of me : Safe from the bar, the pulpit, and the throne, Yet touch'd and shamed by ridicule alone. О sacred weapon ! left for truth's defence, Sole dread of folly,...
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Selections from the British Poets, Volume 1

Fitz-Greene Halleck - 1840 - 372 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...Safe from the bar, the pulpit, and the throne, Yet touch'd and shamed by ridicule alone. Oh sacred weapon ! left for truth's defence, Sole dread of folly,...
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Correspondence of William Pitt, Volume 4

William Pitt (Earl of Chatham) - 1840 - 644 pages
...on Friday, then and there to make a motion relative to America. Be of good cheer, noble love — " Yes, I am proud — I must be proud — to see, Men not afraid of God, afraid of me." Look fresh and merrily to-morrow, and I will look to doors and windows. So to my dear Secretary ! I...
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Correspondence of William Pitt, Earl of Chatham, Volume 4

William Pitt (Earl of Chatham) - 1840 - 626 pages
...on Friday, then and there to make a motion relative to America. Be of good cheer, noble love — " Yes, I am proud — I must be proud — to see, Men not afraid of God, afraid of me." Look fresh and merrily to-morrow, and I will look to doors and windows. So to my dear Secretary ! I...
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The Pictorial History of England During the Reign of George the Third: Being ...

George Lillie Craik, Charles MacFarlane - 1841 - 834 pages
...on Friday, then and there to make a motion relative to America. Be of good cheer, noble love : — ' Yes, I am proud — I must be proud — to see Men not ufraid of God afraid of me.' . Look fresh and merrily to-morrow, and I will look to doors and windows....
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The Eclectic Magazine of Foreign Literature, Science, and Art, Volume 49

1860 - 620 pages
...gratification to him to find that before the keen edge of his satire shrank those who feared nothing else — " Yes, I am proud ; I must be proud to see Men not afraid...throne, Yet touched and shamed by ridicule alone." His skill as a literary artist arose rather from the exercise of a strong judgment than from the force...
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Eclectic Magazine, and Monthly Edition of the Living Age, Volume 57

John Holmes Agnew, Walter Hilliard Bidwell - 1862 - 604 pages
...teaching, but it is great unteaching. It was in the exercise of this gift that Pope could say : "JYes, I am proud, I must be proud to see Men not afraid of Qod afraid of me ; Safe from the bar, the pulpit, and the throne. Yet touched and shamed by ridicule...
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