| Jesse Torrey - Ethics - 1830 - 336 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... | |
| Roscoe Goddard Greene - English language - 1830 - 124 pages
...employed after needs, know, have, 4*. as in the foil™ ing eramples, and some others. e fou<>'1'' " Vice is a monster of so frightful mien, As to be hated needs but to be seen "—P0pe. " One need.no more than to observe bow strongly we are touched by mere picture.... | |
| Denny R. Thomason - Amusements - 1831 - 218 pages
...be safe. Familiarity with vice, it is universally admitted, weakens its power to repel and disgust: Vice is a monster of so frightful mien, As, to be...too oft, familiar with her face, We first endure, then pity, then embrace.* The actor, in personating bad characters, must direct his thoughts into an... | |
| Jared Bell - Theology, Practical - 1832 - 226 pages
...; that self-confidence was a broken reed, inadequate to their support. " Vice is a monster of such frightful mien, As to be hated, needs but to be seen ; But seen too oft, familiar with its face, We first abhor, then pity, then embrace." They who are already traveling in this fatal course,... | |
| Thomas Ewing - 1832 - 428 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... | |
| Samuel B. EMMONS - English language - 1832 - 168 pages
...white? 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; Yet seen too oft, familiar with her face, We first endure, then pity, the.n. embrace. ^... | |
| Alexander Pope - 1832 - 86 pages
...Ask your own heart, and nothing is so plain ; 215 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 ; Yet seen too oft, familiar with her face, We first endure, then pity, then embrace. 220... | |
| John Scott - Reformation - 1833 - 384 pages
...practical, of the papal system. Here we are in danger of realizing the observation of the poet : " Vice is a monster of so frightful mien As, to be hated, needs hut to be seen ; Yet, seen too oft, familiar with the face, We first endure, then pity, then embrace."... | |
| Thomas Brown - Philosophy - 1833 - 800 pages
...just than the picture of this sad progress described in the well known line* of Pope:— " Vice if a monster of so frightful mien, As, to be hated, needs but to be seen ; Vet, seen too oft, familiar with her face, We first endure, then pity, then embrace."*... | |
| Samuel Kirkham - Elocution - 1834 - 360 pages
...it matters little' . , what else they have gained*. SECTION IV. PARAGRAPHS IN VERSE. Vice. — 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' . . endure', then' . . pity', then'... | |
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