 | Alexander Pope - 1835 - 350 pages
...; 215 '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. 220 But where the extreme of vice, was ne'er agreed : Ask where 's the north?... | |
 | Lindley Murray - 1835 - 266 pages
...bestow'd or not, And let thy will be done. Vice is a monster of so frightful mien, As, to be h/tted, 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. Thy purpose firm, is equal to the... | |
 | Thomas Brown - Philosophy - 1835 - 574 pages
...described in the well known lines of Pope : "Vice is a monster of BO frightful mien, As, to be hated, needa but to be seen ; Yet, seen too oft, familiar with her face, We first endure, then pity, then embrace."* In the slow progress of some insidious disease, which is scarcely regarded... | |
 | Alexander Pope - English poetry - 1836 - 332 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 mein, As, to be...too oft, familiar with her face, We first endure, then pity, then embrace. 220 But where the extreme of vice, was ne'er agreed ; Ask where's the north?... | |
 | Lindley Murray - 1836 - 250 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, Thy purpose firm, is equal to the... | |
 | Susanna Hopkins Mason - Pennsylvania - 1836 - 322 pages
...WRITTEN BY A MOTHER FOR THE INSTRUCTION OF HER CHILDREN. " 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." I PHILOM, am a friend to virtue and literature. I was pondering in my mind... | |
 | 1836 - 784 pages
...virtues appear more lovely, but vices more hideous, for " 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." Since, then, high rank imposes, in its very nature, an obligation, — the... | |
 | Calvin Colton - Great Britain - 1836 - 372 pages
...society. " Vice is a monster of so frightful mien, That to be hated, needs but to be seen ; But grown too oft familiar with her face, We first endure, then pity, then embrace." But if vice be offered to a people by the example of the highest authority in the community, with a premium... | |
 | Lindley Murray - 1837 - 260 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, Thy purpose firm, is equal to the... | |
 | 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,...embrace. But where th' Extreme of Vice, was ne'er agreed. 4 Following Philip Young's lead, Joseph DeFalco centers his interpretation on this passage, arguing... | |
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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. 
