 | John Bell - English poetry - 1796 - 524 pages
...Ask your own heart, and nothing is so plain ; 3i'5 'Tis to mistake them, costs the time and pain. V. Vice is a monster of so frightful mien, As to be hated...too oft', familiar with her face, We first endure, then pity, then embrace. 210 But where the extremes of vice was ne'er agreed : Ask Where's the north... | |
 | John Walker - Elocution - 1801 - 424 pages
...tone ef voice than the same slide in the last line of the couplet. is a monster of so frightful As .to be hated needs but to be seen; Yet seen too oft, familiar with her face, \ We first endure, then pity, then embrace. But where the extreme of vice was ne'er agreed; Ask where's the North, at... | |
 | John Dickinson - Constitutional law - 1801 - 468 pages
...applicable to vice in politics, as to vice in ethics. " Vice is a monster of so horrid mien, *' As to be hated, needs but to be seen ; ** Yet seen too oft, familiar with her face, " We first endure, then/tfVjy, then embrace.'.' When an act injurious to freedom has been once done, and the people bear... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1804 - 232 pages
...Ask your own heart, and nothing is so plain ; 215 "Pis to mistake them costs the time and pain. V. Vice is a monster of so frightful mien, As to be hated...first endure, then pity, then embrace. 220 But where th' extreme of vice was ne'er agreed : Ask where's the North ? at York 'tis on the Tweed ; In Scotland... | |
 | Tobias Smollett - English literature - 1805 - 582 pages
...present \ve shall only observe, that these Memoirs are to be read but not studied j for though ' Vice to be hated needs but to be seen,' . ' Yet seen too oft, familiar with her face, • We first endure, then pity, then embrace.* • If is unnecessary to eiplain the Front meaning of the vfOiAjriaJ, whca... | |
 | Pierre Franc M'Callum - Enslaved persons - 1805 - 376 pages
...inclination for that which is evil, that the reformation of them would be more than Herculean labour. Vice, is a monster of so frightful mien, As, to be hated, needs but to be seen ; Yet soon, too oft, familiar with her face, We first endure, then pity, then embrace. POPE. It is in vain... | |
 | English poetry - 1806 - 408 pages
...light and shade, And oft so mix, the dirTrence is too nice Where ends the Virtue, or begins the Vice. Fools ! who from hence into the notion fall, That...too oft, familiar with her face, . We first endure, then pity, then embrace. But where th' extreme of vice, was ne'er agreed r Ask where's the North ?... | |
 | Patrick Colquhoun - Crime - 1806 - 736 pages
...carrying them to a school of vice and debauchery— Vice is a monster of such frightful mien, That to be hated needs but to be seen ; Yet seen too oft — familiar with her face, We first endure — then pity — then embrace. For the purpose of understanding more clearly, by what means it is... | |
 | Eaton Stannard Barrett - 1807 - 602 pages
...become habit, and habit renders vice familiar, and consequently indifferent, or even pleasing to him : " Vice is a monster of so frightful mien, As, to be...too oft, familiar with her face, We first endure, then pity, then embrace." From precept we will now come to example. CHAPTER VI. OIVES AN ACCOUNT OF... | |
 | Lindley Murray - English language - 1808 - 542 pages
...This day be bread, and peace, my lot: All else beneath the sun Thou know'st if best bestow'd or not; Vice is a monster of so frightful mien As, to be hated,...too oft, familiar with her face, We first endure, then pity, then embrace. If nothing more ihan purpose in thv power, Thy purpose firm, is equal to the... | |
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Vice is a monster of so frightful mien, As, to be hated, needs but to be seen ; Yet seen too oft, familiar with her face, We first endure, then pity, then embrace. 
