 | 1876 - 302 pages
...practise of it ourselves. As the poet says too truly: ' Vice is a monster of such frightful mien, As to be hated, needs but to be seen; Yet seen too oft, familiar with her face, We first endure, then laugh at, then embrace.' So, through bad companions, we become... | |
 | Alexander Pope - English language - 1843 - 50 pages
...? Ask your own heart ; and nothing is so plain ; 'Tis no mistake them, costs the time and pain. V. Vice is a monster of so frightful mein, As, to be...needs but to be seen ; Yet seen too oft, familiar to her face, We first endure, then pity, then embrace. But where the extreme of vice was ne'er agreed... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1844 - 94 pages
...'Tis to mistake them, costs the time and pain. i V. Vice is a monster of so frightful mien,^\ \ As, to be hated, needs but to be seen ; ] Yet seen too oft, familiar to her face, IWe first endure, then pity, then embrace. 220 But where the extreme of vice was ne'er agreed... | |
 | Peleg Whitman Chandler - Crime - 1844 - 410 pages
...as the immortal Pope expresses it upon another occasion, It 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 ! Let us see it therefore but once ! Let us... | |
 | History, Ancient - 1844 - 378 pages
...moment with greater apidiry. The poet has well said, that Sin is a monster of such frightful mien, As to be hated needs but to be seen ; Yet seen too oft, familiar grows it, face, We first despise, then pity, then embrace. — POPE. :Van as he was. had Alexander... | |
 | Merritt Caldwell - Elocution - 1845 - 352 pages
...it ; die for it; any thing but — live for it. 5. 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. accumulated treasures of age ;... | |
 | Freemasonry - 1845 - 530 pages
...even if he do see the worst, I agree with Pope — " Vice is a monster of such 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." And Masonry, from evidently the same opinion,... | |
 | C. P. Bronson - Anatomy - 1845 - 330 pages
...sins ; Inconstancy — falls off— ere it begins. Vice is a monster of euch hateful 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. ват. GENIOS. The favorite idea of a genius... | |
 | 1846 - 594 pages
...VII. the same size as vol. VIII. and at the same prices. THE MEDICAL TIMES. SATURDAY, OCT. 21, 1843. 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 lirst endure, then. Arc. POPE. THERE was a time — within the memory of not very... | |
 | Lindley Murray, Allen Fisk - 1846 - 180 pages
...urges us to rise. Oft pining cares in rich brocades are drest, And diamondsglitteron 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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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. 
