 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
 | Alexander Pope - 1822 - 370 pages
...of speculation, which leads men so foolishly to conclude, that there is neither vice nor virtue. W. Vice is a monster of so frightful mien, As, to be...too oft, familiar with her face, We first endure, then pity, then embrace. 220 But where th' Extreme of Vice, was ne'er agreed : Ask where's the North... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1822 - 368 pages
...Ask your own heart, and nothing is so plain ; Tis to mistake them, costs the time and pain." NOTES. Vice is a monster of so frightful mien, As, to be...too oft, familiar with her face, We first endure, then pity, then embrace. 220 But where th' Extreme of Vice, was ne'er agreed : Ask where's the North... | |
 | John Walker - Elocution - 1822 - 404 pages
...same slide in the last line of the couplet. EXAMPLE. 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. But where th' extreme of vice was ne'er agreed ; Ask where's the north, at... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1822 - 372 pages
...conclude, that there is neither vice nor virtue. W. 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. 220 But where th' Extreme of Vice, was ne'er agreed : Ask where's the North... | |
 | Allen Fisk - English language - 1822 - 192 pages
...are dresl» And diamonds glitter on an anxious breast' 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. If nothing more than purpose in thy power, Thy purpose firm is equal to the... | |
 | Rebecca Edridge - 1822 - 758 pages
...pest to society as those punishable persons, who go about committing actual mischief. Pope says, " Vice is a monster of so frightful mien, As to be hated, needs but to be seen." There is however a possibility so to varnish the frightfulness of vice, that she shall... | |
 | John Walker - Elocution - 1823 - 406 pages
...to it, but in a higher tone of voice than the same slide in the last line of the couplet. EXAMPLE. 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 th' extreme of vice was ne'er agreed ; Ask where's the north, at... | |
 | John Landseer - Babylonia - 1823 - 430 pages
...nor in fact, am 1 certain, that mere misgiving is not here flowing from my pen. It may be true that " Vice is a monster of so frightful mien, " As to be hated needs but to be seen .•" But we cannot with similar reliance upon the word of a poet, trust Astronomical monuments... | |
 | Lindley Murray - English language - 1823 - 94 pages
...lot : All else beneath the sun Thou know'st if best bestow'd or not, And let thy will be done. **•. Vice is a monster of so frightful mien, As, to be hated, needs but to be seen : "Vet se«n too oft, familiar with her face, We first endure, then pity, then embrace.... | |
 | Lindley Murray - 1823 - 236 pages
...peace, my lot i All else beneath the sun Thou know'st if best bestow'd or not, And let thy will be done. Vice is a monster of so frightful mien, As, to be hated, needs hut to be seen: Yet seen too oft, familiar with her face, We first endure, then pity, then embrace.... | |
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