 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
 | Alexander Pope - English literature - 1824
...? Ask your own heart, and nothing is so plain ; 215 'Tis to mistake them, costs the time and pain. Vice is a monster of so frightful mien, As, to be hated, needs but to be seen ; COMMENTARY. one another insensibly in a well-wrought picture, make the harmony and spirit... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1824
...? Ask your own heart, and nothing is so plain ; 215 'Tis to mistake them, costs the time and pain. Vice is a monster of so frightful mien, As, to be hated, needs but to be seen ; COMMENTARY. one another insensibly in a well-wrought picture, make the harmony and spirit... | |
 | Andrew Knapp, William Baldwin - Crime - 1824 - 612 pages
...carrying them to a school of vice and debauchery : Vice U a nunsler of fuch frightful mien, That tu be hated needs but to be seen ; Yet seen too oft — familiar wnh her face, We first eudure — then pity — then embraíe. For the purposeof understanding more... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1825 - 504 pages
...appearance, Plutarch had in his hands all the plays of Aristophanes, which were at least fifty in number. r Vice is a monster of so frightful mien, As, to be...too oft, familiar with her face, We first endure, then pity, then embrace. Pope's Essay on Man, ii. 217. I n these he saw more licentiousness than has... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1825 - 502 pages
...appearance, Plutarch had in his hands all the plays of Aristophanes, which were at least fifty in number. ' Vice is a monster of so frightful mien, As, to be...too oft, familiar with her face, We first endure, then pity, then embrace. Pope's Essay on Man, ii. 217. In these he saw more licentiousness than has... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1825 - 500 pages
...appearance, Plutarch had in his hands all the plays of Aristophanes, which were at least fifty in number. ' Vice is a monster of so frightful mien, As, to be...too oft, familiar with her face, We first endure, then pity, then embrace. Pope's Essay on Man, ii. 217. In these he saw more licentiousness than has... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1825 - 504 pages
...appearance, Plutarch had in his hands all the plays of Aristophanes, which were at least fifty in number. 1 Vice is a monster of so frightful mien, As, to be...too oft, familiar with her face, We first endure, then pity, then embrace. Pope's Essay on Man, ii. 217. Fn these he saw more licentiousness than has... | |
 | William Hazlitt - English poetry - 1825 - 600 pages
...? Ask your own heart, and nothing is so plain ; 'Tis to mistake them, eosts the time and pain. Viee <1= then pity, then embraee. But where th' extreme of viee was ne'er agreed : Ask where's the north ? at... | |
 | Charles M. Ingersoll - English language - 1825 - 296 pages
...peace, my lot; 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,...to be seen : * Yet seen too oft, familiar with her facf , We first endure, then pity, then embrace. If nothing more than purpose in thy power, Thy purpose... | |
 | Sarah Green - 1825 - 732 pages
...sometimes reverse the picture, and find that bad mothers may produce a good offspring; for often " Vice is a monster of so frightful mien, As to be hated, needs but to be seen;" especially when the naturally virtuous observer is also a victim of vice so unmasked.... | |
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