 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.  Paradise Lost - Page 181by John Milton - 1896 - 210 pagesFull view - About this book
 | David L. Larsen - Religion - 644 pages
...See my review of Greidanus in Trinity Journal, fall 1990. 237-39. 7.2.3 POPE, GIANT OF THE AUGUSTANS Vice is a monster of so frightful mien, As to be hated,...too oft, familiar with her face, We first endure, then pity, then embrace. — Alexander Pope Essay on Man, 1.217 Few poets are so quotable as Alexander... | |
 | John R. Rice - Religion - 2000 - 228 pages
...temptation if you would be victorious. David looked too long, and he lost! Pope says, in his Essay on Man, Vice is a monster of so frightful mien As, to be hated,...seen too oft, familiar with her face, We first endure and then pity, and then embrace. Oh, do not dally with sin if you would escape itl But I must emphasize... | |
 | Valerie Rohy - Literary Criticism - 2000 - 212 pages
...Doubleday, Page, 1 940), 440-41. 49. The passage Phil attempts to quote from Pope's Essay on Man reads: Vice is a monster of so frightful mien, As to be hated...too oft, familiar with her face, We first endure, then pity, then embrace. See Alexander Pope, The Poems of Alexander Pope, ed. John Butt (New York:... | |
 | Joseph Twadell Shipley - Foreign Language Study - 2001 - 688 pages
...become mithridatized at last." In his Essay on Man, Alexander Pope pictures this process more vividly: Vice is a monster of so frightful mien As to be hated,...too oft, familiar with her face, We first endure, then pity, then embrace. Greek forms from the root sta include Anastasius; apostle, apostate; apostasy,... | |
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