...my country's ruin makes me grave. 3 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 touch'd and shamed by ridicule alone. NOTES. Ver. 204. And mine as man, who feel for all mankind.]...

...odd, my eountry's ruin makes me grave. Yea, I am proud ; I must be proud to see Men not afraid of God, dge : fair it seem'd, M ud : fairer to my faney than by day : And toueh'd and sham'd by ridieule alone. O saered weapon l left for truth's defenee, Sole dread of folly,...

...odd, my country's ruin makes me grave. Yee, I am proud : 1 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 shamed by ridicule alone. O sacred weapon ! left for truth's defence. Sole dread of folly,...

...the morality of satire as a corrective of manners, or to object to the poet's magnificent boast of " Safe from the bar, the pulpit, and the throne. Yet touched and shamed by ridicule alone." In criticism also, ridicule is allowed, notwithstanding the supposed proximity of the sublime to the...

...odd, my country's ruin makes me grave. Yes, I am proud : I must be proud to see Men not afraid of God, nd wait till 'tis no sin to mil with thine. Ah, wretch ! believed touch'd and shamed by ridicule alone. О sacred weapon ! left for Truth's defence, Sole dread of folly,...

...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,...

...poems, or gratify their revenge, * ' 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 thamed, by ridicule alone* Pope. ' Yet, what can satire, whether grave, or gay ? . . It...

...philosophy, was, as if a man would, * ' 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 shamed, by ridicule alone.' Forx> ' Yet, what can satire, whether grave, or gay ? . ....

...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...

...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 touch'd and shamed by ridicule alone. O sacred weapon, left for truth's defence ! Sole dread...