 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.  Broome, Pope, Pitt, Thomson - Page 222edited by - 1810Full view - About this book
 | Alexander Pope - 1844 - 94 pages
...your own heart ; and nothing is so plain ; 215 'Tis to mistake them, costs the time and pain. i V. Vice is a monster of so frightful mien,^\ \ As, to...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... | |
 | Merritt Caldwell - Elocution - 1845 - 348 pages
...will wrangle for religion ; write for it; fight for it; die for it; any thing but — live for it. 5. Vice— is a monster of so frightful mien, As to be...be seen; Yet seen too oft, familiar with her face, We first — endure, then — pity, then — embrace. accumulated treasures of age ; her very ruins... | |
 | Merritt Caldwell - Elocution - 1846 - 390 pages
...will wrangle for religion ; write for it; fight for it; die for it; any thing but — live for it. 5. Vice — is a monster of so frightful mien, As to...be seen ; Yet seen too oft, familiar with her face, We first — endure, then — pity, then — embrace. accumulated treasures of age ; her very ruins... | |
 | Nathan Dow George - Universalism - 1846 - 224 pages
...every number is found more or less of this low stuff, but it is all right with the most of them. " Vice is a monster of so frightful mien, As to be hated...be seen. Yet, seen too oft, familiar with her face, We first endure, then pity, then embrace." Although their patrons appear not at all disturbed by the... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1847 - 524 pages
...thousand ways, is there no black or white ? Ask your own heart, and nothing is so plain ; 21 5 "Pis to mistake them, costs the time and pain. Vice is...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 agreed : Ask... | |
 | Lindley Murray - 1847 - 252 pages
...my lot : All else 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...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, Thy purpose firm,... | |
 | Johann Wolfgang von Goethe - 1849 - 144 pages
...suffice, and that is from a poet deservedly celebrated for the harmony of his versification : — " Vice is a monster of so frightful mien, As to be hated...be seen ; Yet seen too oft, familiar with her face, We first endure, then pity, then embrace." Humboldt remarks that the hexameters of Herman and Doro... | |
 | Alexander Pope, William Charles Macready - 1849 - 646 pages
...white ? Ask your own heart, and nothing is so plain ; 'Tis to mistake them, costs the time and pain. V. Vice is a monster of so frightful mien, As, to be...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 : Ask where... | |
 | Philip Wood - 1849 - 348 pages
...instant, but nobly breaking through the restraints of pride and shame, that would be our hindrance. "Vice is a monster of so frightful mien, As to be...be seen ; Yet seen too oft, familiar with her face, We first endure, then pity, then embrace." If we mark the footsteps of the backslider, in the wildering... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1850 - 94 pages
...white ? Ask your own heart, and nothing is so plain ; Tis to mistake them , costs the time and pain. V. Vice is a monster of so frightful mien , As, to be...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 : Ask where's... | |
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