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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. "
The American Quarterly Observer - Page 178
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A Portraiture of Domestic Slavery, in the United States: With Reflections on ...

Jesse Torrey - Africa, West - 1817 - 126 pages
...the word vice, in Pope's admirable stanza ? thus : Slavery is " 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." t On the ensuing day, having persevered...
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An Inquiry, Whether Crime and Misery are Produced Or Prevented, by Our ...

Sir Thomas Fowell Buxton - Capital punishment - 1818 - 158 pages
...and gradual advance. 'f Nemo repentefuit turpissimus. Vice is a monster of such hideous 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 — are the results of ancient and modern experience....
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The Philanthropist, Or, Repository for Hints and Suggestions ..., Volume 7

Charities - 1819 - 384 pages
...gradual advance — Nemo repentefuit turpissimui — Vice is a monster of such hideous 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— .are the results of ancient and modern experience....
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Principles of Elocution: Containing Numerous Rules, Observations, and ...

Thomas Ewing - Elocution - 1819 - 448 pages
...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 of Vice, was ne'er agreed...
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An Essay on Man: To which are Added, the Universal Prayer, and Other ...

Alexander Pope - 1821 - 86 pages
...? Ask your own heart, and nothing is so plain ; 215 "fis to mistake them, costs the time and pain. Vice is a monster of so frightful mein, As, to be...needs but to be seen ; Yet seen too oft, familiar, with her face, We first endure, then pity, then embrace. 228 But where's th' extreme of vice, was ne'er...
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Select Works of the British Poets: With Biographical and Critical ..., Volume 5

John Aikin - English poetry - 1821 - 402 pages
..."I1 is 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. But where th' extreme of vice, was ne'er agreed...
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Traduction de l'essai sur l'homme de Pope: en vers français, précédée d'un ...

Alexander Pope - Human beings - 1821 - 268 pages
...; "Fis 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 enduire, then pity, then embrace. Quel œil peut éclairer ce chaos de notre...
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Murray's English Grammar Simplified: Designed to Facilitate the Study of the ...

Allen Fisk - English language - 1822 - 192 pages
...a string, Oft pining cares in rich brocades are dresl» And diamonds glitter on an anxious breast' Vice is a monster of so frightful mein, As, to be...needs but to be seen ; Yet seen too oft, familiar with her face, We first endure, then pity, then embrace. If nothing more than purpose in thy power,...
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A Rhetorical Grammar: In which Improprieties in Reading and Speaking are ...

John Walker - Elocution - 1822 - 404 pages
...to it, but in a higher tone of voice than the same slide in the last line of the couplet. EXAMPLE. Vice is a monster of so frightful mein, 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 of vice was ne'er agreed...
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The Works of Alexander Pope, Volume 3

Alexander Pope - 1822 - 370 pages
...conclude, that there is neither vice nor virtue. 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. 220 But where th' Extreme of Vice, was ne'er...
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