 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
 | John Landseer - Babylonia - 1823 - 430 pages
...nor in fact, am 1 certain, that mere misgiving is not here flowing from my pen. It may be true that " Vice is a monster of so frightful mien, " As to be hated needs but to be seen .•" But we cannot with similar reliance upon the word of a poet, trust Astronomical monuments... | |
 | Lindley Murray - English language - 1823 - 94 pages
...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, needs but to be seen : "Vet se«n too oft, familiar with her face, We first endure, then pity, then embrace.... | |
 | Lindley Murray - 1823 - 236 pages
...peace, my lot i 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, needs hut to be seen: Yet seen too oft, familiar with her face, We first endure, then pity, then embrace.... | |
 | Thomas Brown - Philosophy - 1824 - 490 pages
...can be more just, than the picture of this sad progress, described in the well known lines of Pope: " 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 enHur*, then pity, then embrace. "• In the slow progress... | |
 | William Hazlitt - English poetry - 1824 - 1062 pages
...white ? Ask your own heart, and nothing is so plain ; 'Tie to mistake them, costs the time and pam. alth ! with all thy store, How dar'st thou let one worthy man be poor ? Shall half seen too oft, familiar with her face, We first endure, then pity, then embrace. Bnt where th' extreme... | |
 | Jesse Torrey - Ethics - 1824 - 308 pages
...white? Ask your own heart, and nothing is so plain; 'Tis to mistake them, costs the time and pain. 21 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 - English literature - 1824 - 424 pages
...? 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 - 422 pages
...? 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... | |
 | 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 hated, needs but to be seen . Yet seen too oft, familiar with her face, We first endure, then pity, then embrace. Pope's Essay on Man,... | |
 | Charles M. Ingersoll - English language - 1825 - 298 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, needs but to be seen : * Yet seen too oft, familiar with her facf , We first endure, then pity, then embrace. If nothing more than... | |
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