Vice is a monster of such frightful mien, As, to be hated, needs but to be seen; But seen too oft, familiar with her face, We first endure, then pity, then embrace. Crime: Its Nature, Causes, Treatment, and Prevention - Page 144by Sanford Moon Green - 1889 - 346 pagesFull view - About this book
| Francis Wayland - 1847 - 420 pages
...or impaired. Pope says, truly, Vice is a monster of so frightful mien, As, to be dreaded, needs bat to be seen ; But, seen too oft, familiar with her face, We first endure, then pity, then embrace. It is almost unnecessary to remark, that this fact will enable us to estimate... | |
| 1847 - 480 pages
...story when they were little boys. ELYMAS THE SORCERER. Vice is a monster of such hateful mien, That to be hated needs but to be seen ; But seen too oft, familiar with the face. We first admire, then pity, then embrace. POPS. In the village of Dissipation there lives... | |
| Tresham Dames Gregg - 1847 - 488 pages
...too often the abject thing that he was painted, and forcibly illustrating the words of Pope :— ' Vice is a monster of such frightful mien, As to be hated needs hut to be seen : But seen too oft, familiar with her face, We first endure, then pity, then embrace.'... | |
| Joel Parker - 1847 - 152 pages
...quoted passage of Pope: — " Vice is a monster of so frightful mien, AB to be hated needs hut to he seen : But seen too oft, familiar with her face, We first endure, then pity, then embrace." Nor is it less manifest that. Sinful associates address your imitativeness... | |
| Charles Walton Sanders, Joshua Chase Sanders - 1848 - 468 pages
...scene, or gentle as the zephyr that He causes to blow .•vrer it. Vice. POPE, VICE is a monster of so frightful mien, As, to be hated, needs but to be seen...too oft, familiar with her face, We first endure, then pity, then embrace. Value of ihe Soul. KNOWEST thou the value of a soul immortal ? Behold this... | |
| Henry Tudor - 1848 - 468 pages
...true is it that, according to the language of the poetical moralist, — ' Vice is a monster of so frightful mien As to be hated needs but to be seen...seen too oft, familiar with her face, We first endure — then pity— then— embrace!' " If we call things by their right names," continued Mrs. Gracelove,... | |
| Great Britain. Parliament - 1848 - 768 pages
...bethought himself of the words of the poet, who said — " Vice is a monster of so hideous mien As to be hated needs but to be seen ; But seen too oft, familiar with its face, Wo first endure, then pity, then embrace ;" — and then to have taken it for granted, that,... | |
| 1849 - 240 pages
...announced for publication which should be denounced, or prohibited, by the censorship of authority. '' Vice is a monster of such frightful mien. As to be hated needs but to be seen, But grown too oft familiar with her face. We first endure, then pity, then embrace." . It has been ascribed... | |
| History - 1849 - 188 pages
...what is she that she should stand where others fall ? ' Vice is a monster of so hateful mien, As to be hated needs but to be seen, But seen too oft, familiar with her face, We pity first, then cherish, then embrace.' We pray not to be ' led into temptation ;' and to be '... | |
| 1849 - 268 pages
...newspapers. Daily familiarized with deceit and wrong, we soon grow callous to their effects. As Pope says, " Vice is a monster of such 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."... | |
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