 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
 | Fredric V. Bogel - Fiction - 2001 - 280 pages
...that it disguises itself. Pope himself says something like this in An Essay on Man when he announces, "Vice is a monster of so frightful mien, / As, to be hated, needs but to be seen" (2.217-18). But this couplet, with its optimistic certainty, immediately follows a discussion... | |
 | Bruce K. Waltke - Body, Mind & Spirit - 2002 - 200 pages
...become dulled to the pain, and evil now rules the day. Alexander Pope expressed the truth this way: 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. Before the 19605 in North America, homosexuality was of frightful mien as... | |
 | Mike Thompson - Conservatism - 2002 - 200 pages
...the worst, and thus validate the warning of English poet/philosopher Alexander Pope: Vice is a matter of so frightful mien, As to be hated needs but to...too oft, familiar with her face, We first endure, then pity, then embrace. WHAT'S the DIFFERENCE? Doting Big Brothers and Sisters or Dating Big Brothers... | |
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