 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
 | George Rogers - Universalism - 1840 - 410 pages
...sometimes be, but invariably bitter in the stomach. I cannot quite subscribe to the popular distich, that " Vice is a monster of so frightful mien, As to be hated, needs but to be seeji." In regard to some vices, this is undoubtedly true ; but not in regard to all. Some assume... | |
 | Stephen R. Covey - Business & Economics - 1992 - 340 pages
...influence. To emphasize my point, I even shared Alexander Pope's well-known statement concerning vice: 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. Our discussion ended... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - Literary Collections - 1989 - 450 pages
...let us pray to God that he will deliver us from the evil that is in the world for which we are not 8. "Vice is a monster of so frightful mien, / As, to be hated, needs but to be seen." Alexander Pope, Essay on Man, II, 117-18. 9. "To one who had asked him on some occasion,... | |
 | Law - 1872 - 974 pages
...undertook the defence of the system which they had before condemned. In the language of Pope :— " 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." ("Hear," and a laugh.)... | |
 | Martha Finley - Juvenile Fiction - 1994 - 342 pages
...so much knowledge, and possessed sufficient talent for such an undertaking. CHAPTER TWENTY-FIRST. w 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. THE winter... | |
 | Stephen R. Covey - Family & Relationships - 1998 - 406 pages
...zone — even though they're literally killing us and our families. In the words of Alexander Pope: 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.1'' It's a process of... | |
 | Josie Washburn - Social Science - 1997 - 376 pages
...number of criminal assaults, houses of that character are greater in proportion. "Evil begets evil." "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." The Hold-Up For twelve... | |
 | Connie Robertson - Reference - 1998 - 686 pages
...Fixed like a plant on his peculiar spot, To draw nutritlon, propagate, and rot. 8901 An Essay on Man ns, incontestably, are the sunshine: seen too oft, familiar with her face. We first endure, then pity, then embrace. 8902 An Essay on Man... | |
 | Larry P. Gross, James D. Woods - Education - 1999 - 690 pages
...society is, we fear, progressing precisely in the manner given poetic expression by Alexander Pope: 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. To endure (tolerance),... | |
 | New York Social Hygiene Society - Prostitution - 1914 - 72 pages
...Prof. Frank D. Watson George L. Meylan, MD THE DRAMA AS AN INSTRUMENT OF SEX EDUCATION JOYCE KILMEK "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." This, ladies and gentlemen,... | |
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