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" Vice is a monster of such frightful mien, As, to be hated, needs but to be seen; But seen too oft, familiar with her face, We first endure, then pity, then embrace. "
Stories of school boys - Page 144
by Stories - 1799
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Drelincourt and Rodalvi; or, Memoirs of two noble families, Volume 2

Elizabeth Strutt - 1807 - 274 pages
...the triumph of vanity. VOL. II. K CHAP. CHAP. XXXII. Vice is a monster of such hideous mein, As to be hated needs but to be seen, But seen too oft familiar grows her face, We first endure, then pity, then embrace. POPE. PERHAPS vice is never more certain of success, than when she approaches the object...
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The watchman

James A. Maitland - 1816 - 330 pages
...disquiet their peaceful dreams. CHAPTER XXI. THE PORGEK. " Vice ia a monster of so foul a mien As to be hated, needs but to be seen ; But seen too oft, familiar with the face, We first endure, then pity, then embrace." " I AM sure there M something the matter,...
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The baptist Magazine

1818 - 510 pages
...guilt and danger of actually committing it vanish. " Vice is a monster of such hideous mien, A» to be hated, needs but to be seen ; But seen too oft, familiar with its face, We first begin to pity, then embrace." 4. Excuses are invented for the indulgence of...
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A Dictionary of Spanish Proverbs

Proverbs, Spanish - 1823 - 404 pages
...vice, make a person lose shame in committing it. " Vice is a monster of such frightful mien " That to be hated needs but to be seen ; " But seen too oft, familiar with its face, " We first endure, then pity, then embrace. " Quando fueres yunque, sufre como yunque;...
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The castle chapel

Regina Maria Roche - 1825 - 926 pages
...precipitate in carrying into effect. H2 CHAPTER VII. " Vice is a monsler of such frightful mien. As to be hated, needs but to be seen ; But seen too oft, familiar with her face, We first endure, then suffer her embrace." WHILE young Mordaunt was revelling in the...
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An Inquiry Into the Moral Character of Lord Byron

James Wright Simmons - Literature - 1826 - 128 pages
...other man. (i) Analogy of religion. Part I. Chap. V. (fc) Vice is a monster of so frightful mien, As to be hated needs but to be seen ; But seen too oft, familiar with her face, We first endure, then pity, then embrace. ESSAY ON MAN. When the Poet wrote the above...
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Fashionable amusements [by D.R. Thomason.].

D R. Thomason - 1827 - 230 pages
...universally admitted, weakens its power to repel and disgust: Vice is a monster of so frightful mien, As to be hated, needs but to be seen; But seen too oft, familiar with her face, We first endure, then pity, then embrace. * The actor, in personating bad characters,...
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Expository Lectures on Paul's Epistles to the Corinthians

William Lothian - Bible - 1828 - 580 pages
...sentiment is well expressed by an English poet: " Vice is a monster of such frightful mein, As, to be hated, needs but to be seen; But seen too oft, familiar with her face, We first endure, then pity, then embrace." The Apostle would illustrate his meaning...
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Memoir of the late mrs. Newnham, of Farnham; with a selection from her ...

William Newnham - Christian biography - 1830 - 390 pages
...may ever prevail with you to be at peace with it:— " Vice is a monster of so frightful mien, As to be hated, needs but to be seen ; But seen too oft, familiar with her face, We first endure, then pity, then embrace." Its first approaches then must be narrowly...
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Fashionable Amusements

Denny R. Thomason - Amusements - 1831 - 212 pages
...universally admitted, weakens its power to repel and disgust : Vice is a monster of so frightful mien, As, to be hated, needs but to be seen ; But seen too oft, familiar with her face, We first endure, then pity, then embrace.* The actor, in personating bad characters,...
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