 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.  Travels in Trinidad During the Months of February, March, and April, 1803 ... - Page 74by Pierre Franc M'Callum - 1805 - 354 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Thomas Ewing - Elocution - 1819 - 448 pages
...white ? Ask your own heart, and nothing is so plain ; '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 ; Yet seen too oft, familiar with her face, We first endure, then pity, then embrace. But where the Extreme... | |
 | Lindley Murray - English language - 1819 - 718 pages
...peace, my lot ; All else beneath the sun Thou knows't if beat bestow'd or not ; Vice ia a monster of BO 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. If nothing more than... | |
 | 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 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... | |
 | 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 hated, needs but to be seen; Yet seen too oft, familiar with her face, We first enduire, then pity, then embrace. Quel œil peut éclairer... | |
 | 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 needs but to be seen ; Yet seen too oft, familiar with her face, We first endure, then pity, then embrace. But where the' extreme... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1822 - 370 pages
...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 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... | |
 | 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 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... | |
 | Rebecca Edridge - 1822 - 758 pages
...pest to society as those punishable persons, who go about committing actual mischief. Pope says, " Vice is a monster of so frightful mien, As to be hated, needs but to be seen." There is however a possibility so to varnish the frightfulness of vice, that she shall... | |
 | John Walker - Elocution - 1823 - 406 pages
...to it, but in a higher tone of voice than the same slide in the last line of the couplet. EXAMPLE. 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. But where th' extreme... | |
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