 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
 | Mike Thompson - Religion - 2003 - 126 pages
...generally reacts when repeatedly exposed to evil, wicked or immoral human behavior: 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. In recent years, too many Americans and their leaders cheerfully have hustled... | |
 | Terry Castle - Lesbianism - 2003 - 1150 pages
...Yet the story is a strangely vulnerable one. The lines of poetry misquoted by the humiliated hero — "Vice is a monster of so frightful mien, / As, to be hated, needs but to be seen" — are from Alexander Pope's Essay on Man 0733)FURTHER READING: Ernest Hemingway, The... | |
 | Walter Adams, James W. Brock - Business & Economics - 1986 - 386 pages
...the legal strictures against conspiracy with the economic realities of oligopoly. CHAPTER Monopoly Vice is a monster of so frightful mien, As, to be...too oft, familiar with her face, We first endure, then pity, then embrace. Alexander Pope 10 THE WAVE OF CORPORATE consolidations at the turn of the... | |
 | Dante Alighieri - 1996 - 404 pages
...following lines from Pope's Essay on Man (ii, 217- 20): "Vice is a monster of such hideous 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." This passage alludes to that first moment of horror caused by looking squarely... | |
 | M. S. Purnalingam Pillai - Didactic poetry, Tamil - 1999 - 112 pages
...below ." " Virtue is its own reward." " Vice is a monster of so frightful mien As, to be bated needs to be seen ; Yet seen too oft, familiar with her face, We first endure, then pity, then embrace." " Vice itself lost half its evil by losing all its grossness." STUDY VII.... | |
 | Crime - 1943 - 442 pages
...Pope said about "vice" generally seems to apply with special force to the phenomenon of addiction: Vice is a monster of so frightful mien As to be hated...seen too oft, familiar with her face We first endure, then pity, then embrace. The Noncriminal Addict In addition to the noncriminal addicted medical man... | |
 | Cameron R. Lorenc - Child rearing - 2005 - 222 pages
...Alexander Pope said it best when he wrote: "Vice is a monster of so frightful mien (appearance), As to be hated, needs but to be seen. Yet seen too oft, familiar with her face, We first endure, then pity, then embrace." Here are a couple of examples of how a child may develop disturbing life... | |
 | Helen Vendler - Literary Criticism - 2006 - 166 pages
...No statement could be more unequivocal, more apparently serious. And yet, hear how Pope continues: 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... | |
 | John Portmann - Philosophy - 2007 - 266 pages
...breeds sin; the taste of vice keeps inviting us back. As Alexander Pope once wrote in the Essays on Man, 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. Repetition leads to perverse inclinations. Before we know it, we've fallen... | |
 | Lee Lowenfish - Biography & Autobiography - 2007 - 716 pages
...overjoyed. He cited to his associates one of his favorite passages from Alexander Pope's "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, then pity, then embrace.8 As Rickey interpreted the development, the players had endured Robinson's... | |
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