 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.  The Port Folio - Page 5361809Full view - About this book
 | Jesse Torrey - Africa, West - 1817 - 126 pages
...the word vice, in Pope's admirable stanza ? thus : Slavery is " 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." t On the ensuing day, having persevered... | |
 | Sir Thomas Fowell Buxton - Capital punishment - 1818 - 158 pages
...human mind arrives at enormity in guilt by a slow and gradual advance. 'f Nemo repentefuit turpissimus. 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 — are the results of ancient and modern experience.... | |
 | Charities - 1819 - 384 pages
...mind arrives at enormity in guilt by a slow and gradual advance — Nemo repentefuit turpissimui — 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— .are the results of ancient and modern experience.... | |
 | Thomas Ewing - Elocution - 1819 - 448 pages
...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 of Vice, was ne'er agreed... | |
 | James Inglis - Presbyterian Church - 1820 - 406 pages
...malig. nity, how can you, with fixed purpose, rise above its influence? It has been finely said, that Vice is a monster of such hideous mien As, to be hated, needs bat to be seen. But can you see the true character of this moral monster without viewing it attentively?... | |
 | John Aikin - English poetry - 1821 - 402 pages
..."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 of vice, was ne'er agreed... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1821 - 86 pages
...; 215 "fis to mistake them, costs the time and pain. Vice is a monster of so frightful mein, As, to be hated, needs but to be seen ; Yet seen too oft, familiar, with her face, We first endure, then pity, then embrace. 228 But where's th' extreme of vice, was ne'er... | |
 | Alexander Pope - Human beings - 1821 - 268 pages
...; "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 ce chaos de notre être... | |
 | John Walker - Elocution - 1822 - 404 pages
...same slide in the last line of the couplet. EXAMPLE. Vice is a monster of so frightful mein, 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 of vice was ne'er agreed... | |
 | British poets - 1822 - 276 pages
...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 of vice was ne'er agreed:... | |
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