 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.  Travels in Trinidad During the Months of February, March, and April, 1803 ... - Page 74by Pierre Franc M'Callum - 1805 - 354 pagesFull view - About this book
 | E. Johnson - 1830 - 270 pages
...fugere, et sapientia prima Stultitia caruisse *. • 6th RULE. For it has been most truly said— " 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." POPE. 7th RULE. To... | |
 | Jesse Torrey - Ethics - 1830 - 336 pages
...white? Ask your own heart, and nothing is so plain; 'Tis to mistake them, costs the time and pain. 21 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. But where th' extreme... | |
 | Roscoe Goddard Greene - English language - 1830 - 124 pages
...employed after needs, know, have, 4*. as in the foil™ ing eramples, and some others. e fou<>'1'' " Vice is a monster of so frightful mien, As to be hated needs but to be seen "—P0pe. " One need.no more than to observe bow strongly we are touched by mere picture.... | |
 | William Newnham - Christian biography - 1830 - 390 pages
...that none of its persuasive and deceitful forms 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... | |
 | Denny R. Thomason - Amusements - 1831 - 218 pages
...be safe. Familiarity with vice, it is 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... | |
 | Samuel B. EMMONS - English language - 1832 - 168 pages
...white? Ask your own.heart, and nothing is so plain: 'Tis to mistake them, costs the time and pain. V. 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, the.n. embrace. ^ But where th' extreme... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1832 - 86 pages
...Ask your own heart, and nothing is so plain ; 215 Tis to mistake them, costs the time and pain. V. 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. 220 But where th' extreme... | |
 | Thomas Ewing - 1832 - 428 pages
...white ? Ask your own heart, and nothing is so plain ; 'Tis to mistake them, costs the time and pain. 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. But where the extreme... | |
 | John Scott - Reformation - 1833 - 384 pages
...practical, of the papal system. Here we are in danger of realizing the observation of the poet : " Vice is a monster of so frightful mien As, to be hated, needs hut to be seen ; Yet, seen too oft, familiar with the face, We first endure, then pity, then embrace."... | |
 | Thomas Brown - Philosophy - 1833 - 800 pages
...just than the picture of this sad progress described in the well known line* of Pope:— " Vice if a monster of so frightful mien, As, to be hated, needs but to be seen ; Vet, seen too oft, familiar with her face, We first endure, then pity, then embrace."*... | |
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