 | Frederick Saunders - History - 1856 - 410 pages
...thought: " Defer not till to-morrow to be wise3 To-morrow's sun to thee may never rise." Dryden says — "For truth has such a face and such a mien, As to be loved needs only to be seen." And we have from Pope — " Yice is a monster, of so frightful mien, As to be hated, needs but to be... | |
 | Henry Reed - English poetry - 1857 - 424 pages
...disdain'd ; Grinn'd as they pass'd, and with a glaring eye Gave gloomy signs of secret enmity. 'T is true, she bounded by, and tripp'd so light, They had...such a mien As, to be loved, needs only to be seen." 'With the high enlogies on Dryden's odes, especially "Alexander's Feast," I confess myself unable to... | |
 | Henry Reed - English poetry - 1860 - 336 pages
...passed, and with a glaring eye Gave gloomy signs of secret enmity. 'Tis true, she bounded by, and tripped so light, They had not time to take a steady sight; For truth has such a face and such a mien As, to bo loved, needs only to be seen." With the high eulogies on Dryden's odes, especially "Alexander's... | |
 | Charles Carroll Bombaugh - Literature - 1860 - 538 pages
...life ! which did not you prolong, The world had wanted many an idle song. For trnth has snch a faco and such a mien, As to be loved needs only to be seen. — DHYDEN. Vice is a monster of such hideous mien, As to bo hated needs but to be scen. — POPE.... | |
 | English poets - 1862 - 626 pages
...disdain'd ; Grinn'd as they pass'd, and with a glaring eye Gave gloomy signs of secret enmity. 'Tis true she bounded by, and tripp'd so light, They had...a mien, As to be loved needs only to be seen. The Panther, sure the noblest, next the Hind, And fairest creature of the spotted kind ; Oil, could her... | |
 | John Bartlett - Quotations - 1865 - 504 pages
...vrai, amaa d'incertitude, gloire et rebut de 1'univers. — PASCAL. Systemes des I'hilw,phes, xxv. t For truth has such a face and such a mien, As to be loved needs only to be seen. DRVDES. The Hind and Panther. Behold the child, by Nature's kindly law, Pleased with a rattle, tickled... | |
 | John Dennis - Pastoral poetry, English - 1865 - 340 pages
...mental vision. TALBOT. Dryden never uttered anything more foolishly false than when he said, that " Truth has such a face and such a mien, As to, be loved, needs only to be seen;" for the beauty which truth possesses is so quiet and ' retiring, that it rarely, if ever, -wins at... | |
 | John Dryden - 1866 - 348 pages
...disdain'd; Grinn'd as they pass'd, and with a glaring eye Gave gloomy signs of secret enmity. so 'Tis true, she bounded by, and tripp'd so light, They had...For truth has such a face and such a mien, As to be lov'd needs only to be seen. The bloody Bear, an independent beast, 35 V. 29. Grinn'd as they pass'd,... | |
 | John Dryden - 1866 - 346 pages
...disdain'd ; Grinn'd as they pass'd, and with a glaring eye Gave gloomy signs of secret enmity. 30 'Tis true, she bounded by, and tripp'd so light, They had...For truth has such a face and such a mien, As to be lov'd needs only to be seen. The bloody Bear, an independent beast, ss 29 Grinn'd as they pass'd, and... | |
 | Robert Demaus - English language - 1866 - 240 pages
...rings About her court, where never may there come Suspect or danger, tut all trust and safety.' (2) ' For Truth has such a face and such a mien, As, to be loved, needs only to be seen.' What poet makes use of nearly the same words, mutatis mutandis, respecting vice ? (3) Methinks I see... | |
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Tis true she bounded by and tripped so light, They had not time to take a steady sight ; For truth has such a face and such a mien As to be loved needs only to be seen. 
