 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
 | Lindley Murray - English language - 1823 - 116 pages
...not, And let thy will be done. Vice is a monster of so frightful mem, As, to he hated, needs but to he seen : ' Yet seen too oft, familiar with her face. We first endure, then pity, then embrace. If nothing more than purpose in thy powet. Thy purpose firm, is equal to the... | |
 | William Hazlitt - English poetry - 1824 - 1062 pages
...white ? Ask your own heart, and nothing is so plain ; 'Tie to mistake them, costs the time and pam. alth ! with all thy store, How dar'st thou let one...new-built churches round thee fall ? Make keys, bui then pity, then embrace. Bnt where th' extreme of vice, was ne'er agreed : Ask where's the north ?... | |
 | Jesse Torrey - Ethics - 1824 - 308 pages
...white? Ask your own heart, and nothing is so plain; 'Tis to mistake them, costs the time and pain. 21 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 where's the North? at... | |
 | Thomas Brown - Philosophy - 1824 - 490 pages
...can be more just, than the picture of this sad progress, described in the well known lines of Pope: " Vice is a monster of so frightful mien, As, to be...seen ; Yet, seen too oft, familiar with her face, We first enHur*, then pity, then embrace. "• In the slow progress of some insidious disease, which... | |
 | Alexander Pope - English literature - 1824 - 424 pages
...? Ask your own heart, and nothing is so plain ; 215 'Tis to mistake them, costs the time and pain. Vice is a monster of so frightful mien, As, to be hated, needs but to be seen ; COMMENTARY. one another insensibly in a well-wrought picture, make the harmony and spirit... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1824 - 422 pages
...? Ask your own heart, and nothing is so plain ; 215 'Tis to mistake them, costs the time and pain. Vice is a monster of so frightful mien, As, to be hated, needs but to be seen ; COMMENTARY. one another insensibly in a well-wrought picture, make the harmony and spirit... | |
 | Andrew Knapp, William Baldwin (Attorney at law) - Crime - 1824 - 612 pages
...carrying them to a school of vice and debauchery : Vice U a nunsler of fuch frightful mien, That tu be hated needs but to be seen ; Yet seen too oft — familiar wnh her face, We first eudure — then pity — then embraíe. For the purposeof understanding more... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1825 - 504 pages
...appearance, Plutarch had in his hands all the plays of Aristophanes, which were at least fifty in number. r Vice is a monster of so frightful mien, As, to be...too oft, familiar with her face, We first endure, then pity, then embrace. Pope's Essay on Man, ii. 217. I n these he saw more licentiousness than has... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1825 - 502 pages
...appearance, Plutarch had in his hands all the plays of Aristophanes, which were at least fifty in number. ' Vice is a monster of so frightful mien, As, to be...too oft, familiar with her face, We first endure, then pity, then embrace. Pope's Essay on Man, ii. 217. In these he saw more licentiousness than has... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1825 - 500 pages
...appearance, Plutarch had in his hands all the plays of Aristophanes, which were at least fifty in number. ' Vice is a monster of so frightful mien, As, to be...too oft, familiar with her face, We first endure, then pity, then embrace. Pope's Essay on Man, ii. 217. In these he saw more licentiousness than has... | |
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