 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
 | 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... | |
 | 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 - Education - 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 - 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... | |
 | 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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