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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 Bigness Complex: Industry, Labor, and Government in the American Economy ...

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...
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Dante Alighieri's Divine Comedy: Purgatory. Commentary

Dante Alighieri - Poetry - 1996 - 402 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...
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Critical Studies in Kural

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....
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Federal Probation, Volumes 7-8

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...
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Change Your Mind- Change Your Life: 44 Keys to A Happier, Healthier Family

Cameron R. Lorenc - Psychology - 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...
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Poets Thinking

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...
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A History of Sin: Its Evolution to Today and Beyond

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...
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Branch Rickey: Baseball's Ferocious Gentleman

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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Branch Rickey: A Biography, rev. ed.

Murray Polner - Sports & Recreation - 2007 - 281 pages
...Man. Many people don't want Negroes in the major leagues but when it comes..." Then he began reciting: 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." He sat back in his chair, looked at the ceiling, and reached for the right...
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Thinking about Terrorism: The Threat to Civil Liberties in Times of National ...

Michael E. Tigar - Law - 2007 - 248 pages
...I use the word "mien" in the context of this trial as a kind of homage to Alexander Pope who 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. 54. Military detachment of the Milice, police of the Vichy regime. 55. A local...
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