...bad. When truth or virtue an affront endures, Th' affront is mine, my friend, and should be your». 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 sham'd by ridicule alone. О sacred weapon ! left for truth's defence, Sole dread of folly,...

...I am no slave ; So impudent, I own myself no knave; So odd, my country's ruin makes me grave. Yet, 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. O sacred weapon ! left for Truth's defence, Sole dread of folly,...

...government of the country ; and with honest delight could often exclaim, with Pope, — " I own I 'm proud — I must be proud, to see Men not afraid of God afraid of me." Among these satirists, Pope, of the age of Queen Anne, was by far the most independent, unflinching...

...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 pity — MEDON. From its truth perhaps ? ALDA. From its arrogance,...

...bad. When truth or virtue an affront endures, Th' affront is mine, my friend, and should be yours. 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 sham'd by ridicule alone. O sacred weapon ! left for truth's defence, Sole dread of folly,...

...and TheDunciad's pillory would thereafter be the model for Pope's sense of his role as a poet.10 1 must be proud to see Men not afraid of God, afraid...Safe from the Bar, the Pulpit, and the Throne, Yet touch'd and sham'd by Ridicule alone. (Epilogue to the Satires, 11.208- 1 1 ) "The Bar, the Pulpit,...

...energy, confidence, and self-righteousness in the second dialogue of the Epilogue to the Satires (1738): 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 sham'd by Ridicule alone. O sacred Weapon! left for Truth's defence, Sole Dread of Folly,...

...Epilogue to the Satires, Pope speaks of ridicule in similar terms to those used by Skelton for poetry. O sacred Weapon! left for Truth's defence, Sole Dread of Folly, Vice, and Insolence! To all but Hcav'n-directcd hands dcny'd. The Muse may give thcc, but the Gods must guide. (212-15) The lines emphasize...

...in the business, clearly reveled in his own high reputation as a verbal killer: Yes, I am proud; and must be proud, to see Men not afraid of God afraid of me. Such a boast set up its own natural rejoinder, and in a bit of put-down Ping-Pong, Lord Hervey, whom...

...sometimes a statement of resignation felt as victory, sometimes as heroic boast delivered as satiric wit: Yes, I am proud; I must be proud to see Men not afraid of God, afraid of me. . . . And, in perhaps Pope's most dazzling moment, he links this triumphant claim for satire not only...