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
| Charities - 1819 - 384 pages
...gradual advance — Nemo repentefuit turpissimui — 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— .are the results of ancient and modern experience. " Let us suppose, then,... | |
| John Moore - 1820 - 578 pages
...respecting vice in general is pecu.r Jiarly true when applied to scenes of cruelty : Which to be hated need but to be seen ; Yet seen too oft, familiar with her face, We first endure, then pity, then embrace. If, then, a good government is one of the most powerful engines for precluding... | |
| John Moore, Robert Anderson - English literature - 1820 - 580 pages
...respecting vice in general is peculiarly true when applied to scenes of cruelty : Which to be hated need but to be seen ; Yet seen too oft, familiar with her face, We first endure, then pily, then embrace. If, then, a good government is one of the most powerful engines for precluding... | |
| John Aikin - English poetry - 1820 - 832 pages
...costs the time and pain. V. Vice is a monster of so frightful mien, As, to be hated, needs but to he eep. And bid the weltering waves their cozy channel Ring out, ye then pity, then embrace. But where th' extreme of vice, was ne'er agreed : Ask where's the north ?... | |
| John Aikin - English poetry - 1821 - 402 pages
...white? Ask your own heart, and nothing is so plain ; "I1 is to mistake them, costs the time and pain. V. Vice is a monster of so frightful mien, As, to be...too oft, familiar with her face, We first endure, then pity, then embrace. But where th' extreme of vice, was ne'er agreed : Ask whcrc's the north ?... | |
| Alexander Pope - Human beings - 1821 - 268 pages
...white ? Ask your own heart, and nothing in so plain ; "Fis to mistake them, costs the time and pain. V. Vice is a monster of so frightful mien, As, to be...be seen; Yet seen too oft, familiar with her face, We first enduire, then pity, then embrace. Quel œil peut éclairer ce chaos de notre être ? Le Dieu... | |
| Alexander Pope - 1890 - 574 pages
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| Alexander Pope - 1821 - 86 pages
...; 215 "fis to mistake them, costs the time and pain. Vice is a monster of so frightful mein, As, to be hated, needs but to be seen ; Yet seen too oft, familiar, with her face, We first endure, then pity, then embrace. 228 But where's th' extreme of vice, was ne'er agreed : Ask where's the north... | |
| Alexander Pope - Human beings - 1821 - 254 pages
...? 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 mien , As , to be hated , needs but to be seen ; IV. La même ambition sauve et perd les états , Fait les grandes vertus et les grands... | |
| Classical poetry - 1822 - 284 pages
...white ? Ask your own heart, and nothing is so plain; 'Tis to mistake them costs the time and pain. 5. 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. But where the' extreme of vice was ne'er agreed: Ask where's the north 1—at... | |
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