 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
 | John Aikin - English poetry - 1820 - 832 pages
...costs the time and pain. V. Vice is a monster of so frightful mien, As, to be hated, needs but to he eep. And bid the weltering waves their cozy channel Ring out, ye then pity, then embrace. But where th' extreme of vice, was ne'er agreed : Ask where's the north ?... | |
 | John Aikin - English poetry - 1821 - 402 pages
...white? Ask your own heart, and nothing is so plain ; "I1 is to mistake them, costs the time and pain. V. 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 whcrc's the north ?... | |
 | Alexander Pope - Human beings - 1821 - 268 pages
...white ? Ask your own heart, and nothing in so plain ; "Fis to mistake them, costs the time and pain. V. Vice is a monster of so frightful mien, As, to be...be seen; Yet seen too oft, familiar with her face, We first enduire, then pity, then embrace. Quel œil peut éclairer ce chaos de notre être ? Le Dieu... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1821 - 72 pages
...; 215 "fis to mistake them, costs the time and pain. 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. 228 But where's th' extreme of vice, was ne'er agreed : Ask where's the north... | |
 | Alexander Pope - Human beings - 1821 - 254 pages
...? 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 , needs but to be seen ; IV. La même ambition sauve et perd les états , Fait les grandes vertus et les grands... | |
 | Classical poetry - 1822 - 284 pages
...white ? Ask your own heart, and nothing is so plain; 'Tis to mistake them costs the time and pain. 5. 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 1—at... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1822
...of speculation, which leads men so foolishly to conclude, that there is neither vice nor virtue. W. Vice is a monster of so frightful mien, As, to be...too oft, familiar with her face, We first endure, then pity, then embrace. 220 But where th' Extreme of Vice, was ne'er agreed : Ask where's the North... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1822 - 368 pages
...Ask your own heart, and nothing is so plain ; Tis to mistake them, costs the time and pain." NOTES. Vice is a monster of so frightful mien, As, to be...too oft, familiar with her face, We first endure, then pity, then embrace. 220 But where th' Extreme of Vice, was ne'er agreed : Ask where's the North... | |
 | John Walker - Elocution - 1822 - 404 pages
...same slide in the last line of the couplet. EXAMPLE. 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. But where th' extreme of vice was ne'er agreed ; Ask where's the north, at... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1822 - 372 pages
...conclude, that there is neither vice nor virtue. W. 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. 220 But where th' Extreme of Vice, was ne'er agreed : Ask where's the North... | |
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