...all Trades," some one may say ; but, no one can add, " master of none." " Yes, I am prond ; I most be proud to see " Men, not afraid of God, afraid of me." But, I am still more proud of my Nursery-Ground, which was, for the greater part, a rough and sour...

...impudent, I own myself n9 knave ; So odd, my country's ruin makes me grave. Yes, I am proud : I must he proud to see Men not afraid of God, afraid of me : Safe from the bar, the pulpit, aiul the throne, Yet touch'd and shamed by ridicule alone. O sacred weapon ! left for truth's defence,...

...proud, I am no slave ; So impudent, I own myself no knave ? So odd, my country's ruiu makes me grave. Yes, I am proud ; I must be proud to see Men, not afraid of God, afraid of mis Safe from the bar, the pulpit, ••md the throne, Yet touch'd and sliam'd by ridicule alone....

...at morning, glide from us, j And leave us at eve on the bleak shore alone." VOL. II. E RIDICULE. " Yes, I am proud — I must be proud to see Men, not afraid of God, afraid of me." I ENVY Pope the burst of honest triumph that produced these lines ! How long was he lashed, tortured,...

...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,...

...proud, I am no slave ; So impudent, I own myself no knave ; So odd, my country's ruin makes me grave. d dust remain ; iere all its frailties, all its flames...'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,...

...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...

...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...

...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 ? . ....