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
| English drama - 1828 - 344 pages
...fancied summit is gained, there is comething beyond that leads it still higher. If it be true that— " Vice is a monster of so frightful mien, As, to be hated, needs but to be seen," ment. to add another heap to his ill-gotten store. In this plan he is assisted by his... | |
| Lindley Murray - English language - 1828 - 128 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 but to be seen 1 Yet seen too oft, familiar with her face, We first endure, then pity, then embrace. If... | |
| Jabez Burns - 1829 - 378 pages
...white ? Ask your own heart, and nothing is so plain ; 'Tis to mistake them costs the time and pain. 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 ?... | |
| Lindley Murray - English language - 1829 - 120 pages
...my lot: All else beneath the sun Thou know'st if host b,?stovy'd or not, And let ttiy will be done. Vice is a monster of so frightful mien, As, to be...hated, needs but to be seen: Yet seen too oft, familiar vritli her face, We tirst endure, then pity, then embrace. If nothing more than purpose in Jiy power(... | |
| Joseph Guy - 1829 - 176 pages
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| Jesse Torrey - Ethics - 1830 - 336 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... | |
| E. Johnson - 1830 - 270 pages
...fugere, et sapientia prima Stultitia caruisse *. • 6th RULE. For it has been most truly said— " 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." POPE. 7th RULE. To enumerate the various shapes in which temptation assails... | |
| 1830 - 614 pages
...guilty," to each individual charge. Evil-speaking — " — Is a monster of such frightful mien, That to be hated needs but to be seen ; Yet seen too oft, familiar with her face, We first endure, then pity, then embrace." But, unhappily, 'the consequences and issues to which it tends, being but... | |
| Methodist Church - 1839 - 512 pages
...struck him with almost insupportable horror. " Vice is a monster of such frightful mien As, to be haied, needs but to be seen ; Yet, seen too oft, familiar with her face, We first endure, then pity, then embrace." Look for the good, the wealthy, the influential among our commercial citizens... | |
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