 | Benjamin W. Williams - Alcoholism - 1846 - 70 pages
...become an adage — just as the twig is bent the tree 's inclined. Says the same philosophic poet : 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. The admitted fact that the offspring of intemperate... | |
 | Merritt Caldwell - Elocution - 1846 - 390 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 ;... | |
 | Nathan Dow George - Universalism - 1846 - 224 pages
...low stuff, but it is all right with the most of them. " 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." Although their patrons appear not at all... | |
 | Quotations, English - 1847 - 526 pages
...DR. JOHNSON. 8. Vice is a monster of so frightful mien, As, to be hated, needs but to be seen ; But, seen too oft, familiar to the face, We first endure, then pity, then embrace. .POPE'S Essay on Man. 9. Where, where, for shelter shall the guilty fly, When consternation... | |
 | Quotations, English - 1847 - 540 pages
...DR. JOHNSON. 8. Vice is a monster of so frightful mien, As, to be hated, needs but to be seen ; But, seen too oft, familiar to the face, We first endure, then pity, then embrace. POPE'S Essay on Man. 9. Where, where, for shelter shall the guilty fly, When consternation... | |
 | Lindley Murray - 1847 - 252 pages
...know'st if best bestow'd or not. And let thy will be done. 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. If nothing more than purpose in thy power,... | |
 | Dante Alighieri - Poetry - 1985 - 436 pages
...following lines from Pope's Essay on Man (ii, 217-20): "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." This passage contains an allusion to that... | |
 | Richard John Neuhaus - Religion - 1986 - 300 pages
...widespread tolerance of both, the words of Pope are pertinent: 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 monstrous becomes habitual, and we cannot... | |
 | John R. Rice - Religion - 2000 - 568 pages
...children absorbed the wicked viewpoint of Sodom. Pope says: 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. David looked on Bathsheba bathing, then sent... | |
 | Jackson J. Benson - Literary Criticism - 1990 - 532 pages
...quote from Alexander Pope's An Essay on Man: it reads 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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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. 
