 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
 | David L. Larsen - Religion - 644 pages
...See my review of Greidanus in Trinity Journal, fall 1990. 237-39. 7.2.3 POPE, GIANT OF THE AUGUSTANS 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. — Alexander Pope Essay on Man, 1.217 Few poets are so quotable as Alexander... | |
 | John R. Rice - 2000 - 228 pages
...temptation if you would be victorious. David looked too long, and he lost! Pope says, in his Essay on Man, Vice is a monster of so frightful mien As, to be hated,...seen too oft, familiar with her face, We first endure and then pity, and then embrace. Oh, do not dally with sin if you would escape itl But I must emphasize... | |
 | Valerie Rohy - American literature - 2000 - 212 pages
...Doubleday, Page, 1 940), 440-41. 49. The passage Phil attempts to quote from Pope's Essay on Man reads: 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. See Alexander Pope, The Poems of Alexander Pope, ed. John Butt (New York:... | |
 | Lisa Tyler - Reference - 2001 - 210 pages
...homophobia. The quotation that Phil half-remembers was taken from Alexander Pope's An Essay on Man; "Vice is a monster of so frightful mien, / As, to...too oft, familiar with her face, / We first endure, then pity, then embrace" (II. iii.2 17-20). Pope seems to be saying that while the mere sight of "vice"... | |
 | Joseph Twadell Shipley - Language Arts & Disciplines - 2001 - 684 pages
...become mithridatized at last." In his Essay on Man, Alexander Pope pictures this process more vividly: 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. Greek forms from the root sta include Anastasius; apostle, apostate; apostasy,... | |
 | Fredric V. Bogel - Books and reading - 2001 - 280 pages
...that it disguises itself. Pope himself says something like this in An Essay on Man when he announces, "Vice is a monster of so frightful mien, / As, to be hated, needs but to be seen" (2.217-18). But this couplet, with its optimistic certainty, immediately follows a discussion... | |
 | Bruce K. Waltke - Religion - 2002 - 200 pages
...become dulled to the pain, and evil now rules the day. Alexander Pope expressed the truth this way: 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. Before the 19605 in North America, homosexuality was of frightful mien as... | |
 | Mike Thompson - Conservatism - 2002 - 200 pages
...the worst, and thus validate the warning of English poet/philosopher Alexander Pope: Vice is a matter of so frightful mien, As to be hated needs but to...too oft, familiar with her face, We first endure, then pity, then embrace. WHAT'S the DIFFERENCE? Doting Big Brothers and Sisters or Dating Big Brothers... | |
 | Lynn D. Wardle, William C. Duncan, Mark Strasser, David Orgon Coolidge - Gay couples - 2003 - 416 pages
...will likely continue to be busy. Wise counsel might be derived from Alexander Pope, who once wrote: 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.33 As the members of the Ramsey Colloquium noted in its 1994 commentary to... | |
 | Edward W.L. Smith - Social Science - 2010 - 202 pages
...morality poem, taken from Alexander Pope's An Essay on Man II, to point in the direction of an answer. 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 [Ward edition, 1930, p. 206]. As I ponder this quatrain, the levels of meaning... | |
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