 Vice is a monster of such 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.  Social Diseases - Page 78by New York Social Hygiene Society - 1914Full view - About this book
 | Philadelphia (Pa.) - 1809 - 572 pages
...abhorrence and detestation they would otherwise excite. " Vice is a monster of such hideous mien, As, to be hated, needs but to be seen — Yet, seen too oft, familiar with its face, We first endure, then pity, then embrace." And by suppressing the praises due to virtue,... | |
 | Pierre Franc M'Callum - Enslaved persons - 1805 - 376 pages
...is evil, that the reformation of them would be more than Herculean labour. Vice, is a monster of so frightful mien, As, to be hated, needs but to be seen ; Yet soon, too oft, familiar with her face, We first endure, then pity, then embrace. POPE. It is in vain... | |
 | Lindley Murray - English language - 1809 - 114 pages
...beneath the sun Thou 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 tco oft, familiar with her facfc. We first endure, then pity, then embrace. If nothing more than purpose... | |
 | Thomas Coke - Haiti - 1810 - 478 pages
...it in a state of purity. But this, at present, is rather an object of our wishes than our hopes. " Vice is a monster of such frightful mien, :• As to be hated, needs but to be seen." Whether, therefore, self interest, or a better motive, shall be made the medium of illumination,... | |
 | Mrs. Roberts (Margaret Wade) - Child rearing - 1812 - 312 pages
...would be able to resist all its attractions ; and, under any disguise it might assume, to find it, ' A monster of such frightful mien, As to be hated, .needs but to be seem" But, my dear Sir, whoever may have the happiness of being selected as the companion of... | |
 | Proverbs - 1814 - 568 pages
...who would keep his morals untainted, must not associate familiarly with the debauched and wicked. " Vice is a monster of such frightful mien, As to be hated needs but to be seen ; But seen too oft, familiar with her face, We first admire, next pity, then embrace." The... | |
 | New Church gen. confer - 1872 - 634 pages
...nor one grain of gold which we did not buy in Hatton Garden t Ex uno discs.. In vain Pope wrote : " Vice is a monster of such frightful mien As to be hated needs but to be seen," becanse, though fresh from any villany, our looking-glass shews us no such fright. Some... | |
 | Margaret Roberts - 1815 - 308 pages
...would be able to resist all its attractions; and, under any disguise it might assume, to find it, ' A monster of such frightful mien, As to be hated, needs but to be seen.' But, my dear Sir, whoever may have the happiness of being selected as the companion of'your... | |
 | Books - 1823 - 428 pages
...been appointed to his present Office. By the Rev. Mr. Villette, Ordinary of Newgate, and others. " Vice is a monster of such frightful mien, As, to be hated, needs but to be seen." Pope. London, 1776. In an article in a late number upon John Everett, a gentleman who... | |
 | 1823 - 584 pages
...been appointed to his present Office. By the Rev. Mr. Villette, Ordinary of Newgate, and others. " Vice is a monster of such frightful mien, As, to be hated, needs but to be seen." Pope. London, 1776. IN an article in a late number upon John Everett, a gentleman who... | |
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