 | Alexander Pope - 1844 - 94 pages
...frightful mien,^\ \ As, to be hated, needs but to be seen ; ] Yet seen too oft, familiar to her face, IWe first endure, then pity, then embrace. 220 But where...Ask where's the north ? at York, 'tis on the Tweed ; At Scotland, at the Orcades ; and there, At Greenland, Zembla, or the Lord knows where. -No creature... | |
 | Peleg Whitman Chandler - Crime - 1844 - 410 pages
...as the immortal Pope expresses it upon another occasion, It 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 ! Let us see it therefore but once ! Let us consign it, O ye judges, to its... | |
 | Freemasonry - 1845 - 530 pages
...even if he do see the worst, I agree with Pope — " Vice is a monster of such 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." And Masonry, from evidently the same opinion, bids us " be temperate in all... | |
 | Merritt Caldwell - Elocution - 1845 - 352 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 ; her very ruins — tell the history... | |
 | C. P. Bronson - Anatomy - 1845 - 330 pages
...sins ; Inconstancy — falls off— ere it begins. Vice is a monster of euch hateful mien, That, to be hated— needs but to be seen; Yet, seen too oft— familiar with her face, We first endure, then pity, then embrace. ват. GENIOS. The favorite idea of a genius among us, is of one, who never... | |
 | 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 first moment of horror caused by... | |
 | 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 afford but to be on friendly... | |
 | 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 for her, then seduced her, then... | |
 | 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. 4 Following Philip Young's... | |
 | Stephen R. Covey - Business & Economics - 1992 - 340 pages
...Alexander Pope's well-known statement concerning vice: 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. Our discussion ended with a decision to try to limit ourselves to about one... | |
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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. 
