 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 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... | |
 | 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... | |
 | 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... | |
 | Scott J. Hammond, Kevin R. Hardwick, Howard Leslie Lubert - History - 2007 - 1236 pages
...Pope as applicable to vice in politics, as to vice in ethicsVice is a monster of so horrid mien, As to line drawn through the southerly bend or extreme of Lake M then pity, then embrace. 14. "Opinion is of two kinds, viz., opinion of INTEREST, and opinion of RIGHT.... | |
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