 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
 | Thomas Ewing - 1832 - 428 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... | |
 | John Scott - Reformation - 1833 - 374 pages
...danger of realizing the observation of the poet: " Vice is a monster of so frightflil mien As, to he hated, needs but to be seen; Yet, seen too oft, familiar with the face, We nrst enduie, then pity, then embrace." Persecution, it is true, is a crime to which our... | |
 | Samuel Kirkham - Elocution - 1834 - 360 pages
...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' . . . embrace*. Fall of Babylon. — MOORE.... | |
 | Bela Bates Edwards - Theology - 1834 - 408 pages
...objection and these views ? Who does not know that " Vice is a monster of so frightful mein, As to be hated needs but to be seen ; Yet seen too oft, familiar to the face, We first endure; then pity; then embrace." One thing should not be forgotten. There are... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1835 - 350 pages
...; 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 ; Yet seen too oft, familiar with her face, We first endure, then pity, then embrace. 220 But where the extreme of vice, was ne'er agreed... | |
 | John Collins McCabe - American poetry - 1835 - 204 pages
...soon realized the truth of the poet's assertion : "'Vice ia a monster of so frightful tne'm, As, to be hated, needs but to be seen. Yet seen too oft, familiar with her face, We first endure, then pity, then embrace ' "I will not dwell upon the 'new scenes and changes'... | |
 | Susanna Hopkins Mason - Pennsylvania - 1836 - 322 pages
...WRITTEN BY A MOTHER FOR THE INSTRUCTION OF HER CHILDREN. " 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." I PHILOM, am a friend to virtue and literature.... | |
 | 1836 - 784 pages
...virtues appear more lovely, but vices more hideous, for " 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." Since, then, high rank imposes, in its very... | |
 | Alexander Pope - English poetry - 1836 - 332 pages
...; 'Tis to mistake them, costs the time and pain. V. 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. 220 But where the extreme of vice, was ne'er agreed... | |
 | Lindley Murray - 1836 - 250 pages
...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 face, We first endure, then pity, then embrace. If nothing more than purpose in thy power, Thy... | |
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