 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
 | Samuel Johnson - 1825 - 504 pages
...appearance, Plutarch had in his hands all the plays of Aristophanes, which were at least fifty in number. 1 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. Fn these he saw more licentiousness than has... | |
 | William Hazlitt - English poetry - 1825 - 600 pages
...? Ask your own heart, and nothing is so plain ; 'Tis to mistake them, eosts the time and pain. Viee <1= then pity, then embraee. But where th' extreme of viee was ne'er agreed : Ask where's the north ? at... | |
 | Charles M. Ingersoll - English language - 1825 - 298 pages
...peace, my 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,...to be seen : * Yet seen too oft, familiar with her facf , We first endure, then pity, then embrace. If nothing more than purpose in thy power, Thy purpose... | |
 | Sarah Green - 1825 - 730 pages
...sometimes reverse the picture, and find that bad mothers may produce a good offspring; for often " Vice is a monster of so frightful mien, As to be hated, needs but to be seen;" especially when the naturally virtuous observer is also a victim of vice so unmasked.... | |
 | British anthology - 1825 - 460 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 needs but to he seen ; Yet seen too oft, familiar with her face, . We first endure, then pity, then embrace.... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1825 - 476 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 hated, needs but to be seen ; Vet seen too ofi, familiar with her face, We 6rst endure, then pity, then embrace. Pope's... | |
 | English letters - 1826 - 438 pages
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 | Lindley Murray - 1826 - 184 pages
...ray 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...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... | |
 | Lindley Murray - 1826 - 190 pages
...lot ; All else beneath the sun,* Thou know'st if best l>f stow'd or not, And let thy will be done. Vice is a monster of so frightful mien, As, to be hated, needs but to he seen : Yet seen too oft, familiar with her face, We first endure, then pity, then embrace. If... | |
 | James Wright Simmons - Literature - 1826 - 136 pages
...and, we doubt not, by that of almost every other man. (i) Analogy of religion. Part I. Chap. V. (fc) Vice is a monster of so frightful mien, As to be hated needs but to be seen ; But seen too oft, familiar with her face, We first endure, then pity, then embrace. ESSAY... | |
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