 | John Bell - 1796 - 524 pages
...3i'5 '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. 210 But where the extremes of vice was ne'er agreed : Ask Where's the north... | |
 | John Walker - 1801 - 424 pages
...tone ef voice than the same slide in the last line of the couplet. is a monster of so frightful 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; Ask where's the North, at... | |
 | John Dickinson - 1801 - 468 pages
...applicable to vice in politics, as to vice in ethics. " Vice is a monster of so horrid mien, *' As to be hated, needs but to be seen ; ** Yet seen too oft, familiar with her face, " We first endure, then/tfVjy, then embrace.'.' When an act injurious to freedom has been once done, and the people bear... | |
 | 1809 - 572 pages
...abhorrence and detestation they would otherwise excite. " Vice is a monster of such hideous mien, As, to be hated, needs but to be seen — Yet, seen too oft, familiar with its face, We first endure, then pity, then embrace." And by suppressing the praises due to virtue,... | |
 | John Moore - 1803 - 322 pages
...vice in general, is peculiarly true when applied to scenes of cruelty : — " Which to be hated, need but to be seen ; Yet seen too oft, familiar with her face, We first endure, then pity, then embrace." ENNUI. Or all the contrivances to exclude this intruding demon from the mind... | |
 | John Moore - 1803 - 312 pages
...general, is peculiarly true when applied to scenes of cruelty : — " Which to be hated, need but too be seen ; Yet seen too oft, familiar with her face, We first endure, then pity, then embrace." ENNUI. OF all the contrivances to exclude this intruding demon from the mind... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1804 - 232 pages
...215 "Pis 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 But where th' extreme of vice was ne'er agreed : Ask where's the North... | |
 | 1804 - 474 pages
...school of vice and debauchery.— Vice is a monster of snch frightful mien, That to be hated needs hut to be seen ; Yet seen too oft — familiar with her face, We first endure — then pity — then embrace. For the purpose of understanding more clearly by what means it is possible... | |
 | Tobias Smollett - 1805 - 582 pages
...present \ve shall only observe, that these Memoirs are to be read but not studied j for though ' Vice to be hated needs but to be seen,' . ' Yet seen too oft, familiar with her face, • We first endure, then pity, then embrace.* • If is unnecessary to eiplain the Front meaning of the vfOiAjriaJ, whca... | |
 | Patrick Colquhoun - 1806 - 736 pages
...tantamount to carrying them to a school of vice and debauchery— Vice is a monster of such frightful mien, That to be hated needs but to be seen ; Yet...too oft — familiar with her face, We first endure — then pity — then embrace. For the purpose of understanding more clearly, by what means it is... | |
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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. 
