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" 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 181
by John Milton - 1896 - 210 pages
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The History of the Church of Christ: Particularly in Its Lutheran ..., Volume 1

John Scott - Church history - 1826 - 638 pages
...are in danger of realizing the observation of the poet : Vice is a monster of so foul a mien As, to be hated, needs but to be seen, Yet, seen too oft, familiar with the face, We first endure, then pity, then embrace. Persecution, it is true, is a crime to which our...
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A General Pronouncing and Explanatory Dictionary of the English Language: To ...

George Fulton - English language - 1826 - 456 pages
...first Une of a couplet generally ends with the rising inflexion, unless the last word be emphatic; as, 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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Captain Rock in London; Or, The Chieftain's Gazette for the Year 1825

Catholics - 1825 - 362 pages
...innocence and virtue.* Well has the poet said, ' Vice is a monster of such frijjhtful mien, Tliut lo be hated needs but to be seen ; Yet seen too oft, familiar will) her fact', At first we pity, and we then embrace.' In the next place, where every thing connected...
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The Medical Companion: Or Family Physician; Treating of the Diseases of the ...

James Ewell - Cooking - 1827 - 868 pages
...it were, the flood-gates of every species of vico. "Vice is a monster of so frightful niienj As, to be hated, needs but to be seen ; Yet seen too oft, familiar with her face, We first endure, then pity, then embrace." POPE. It is also jrorthy of remark, that among the genteel circles in Charleston,...
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Much Instruction from Little Reading: Or, Extracts from Some of the Most ...

Anthologies - 1827 - 290 pages
...oft (more strong than all) the love of ease. ( ***** 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. * * * * * Virtuous and vicious every man must be, Few in th' extreme, but...
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Fashionable amusements [by D.R. Thomason.].

D R. Thomason - 1827 - 230 pages
...be safe. Familiarity with vice, it is universally admitted, weakens its power to repel and disgust: 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. * The...
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The Poetical Works, Volume 2

Alexander Pope - 1828 - 264 pages
...white 1 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,...too oft; familiar with her face, We first endure, then pity, then embrace. 22ft But where*the extreme of vice, was ne'er agreed : Ask where 's the north...
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English Exercises ...: With which the Corresponding Notes, Rules, and ...

Lindley Murray - English language - 1828 - 268 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...too oft, familiar with her face, We first endure, then pity, then embrace. If nothing more than purpose in thy power, Thy purpose fi-rm, is equal to...
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The History of the Church of Christ: Containing the history of the Lutheran ...

John Scott - Lutheran Church - 1828 - 660 pages
...and practical, of the papal system. Here we are in danger of realizing the observation of the poet, Vice is a monster of so frightful mien, As, to be...needs but to be seen, Yet, seen too oft, familiar with the face, We first endure, then pity, then embrace. ยป 2 Thess. ii. by the authorities which have sanctioned...
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The Poetical Works of Alexander Pope: To which is Prefixed a Life ..., Volume 1

Alexander Pope - English poetry - 1828 - 222 pages
...white ? Ask your own heart, and nothing is so plain ; T 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 be seen ; We first endure, then pity, then embrace. Yet seen too oft, familiar with her face, Ask...
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