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. Bay State Monthly - Page 3811909Full view - About this book
| William Hazlitt - 1825 - 600 pages
...mistake them, eosts the time and pain. Viee is a monster of so frightful mien, As, to be hated, needs but power Loose on the point of every wavering hour, Ready, by foree, or of then pity, then embraee. But where th' extreme of viee was ne'er agreed : Ask where's the north ? at... | |
| Samuel Johnson - 1825 - 502 pages
...were at least fifty in number. ' 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. Pope's Essay on Man, ii. 217. In these he saw more licentiousness than has... | |
| Samuel Johnson - 1825 - 504 pages
...were at least fifty in number. r 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. Pope's Essay on Man, ii. 217. I n these he saw more licentiousness than has... | |
| British anthology - 1825 - 460 pages
...costs the time and pain. 5. Vice is a monster of so frightful mien, As to be hated needs but to he 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? —... | |
| Lindley Murray - 1826 - 184 pages
...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 purpose firm, is equal to the... | |
| Lindley Murray - 1826 - 190 pages
...And let thy will be done. Vice is a monster of so frightful mien, As, to be hated, needs but to he seen : Yet seen too oft, familiar with her face, We first endure, then pity, then embrace. If nothing more than purpose iu thy power, Thy purpose firm, is equal to the... | |
| 1827 - 290 pages
...than all) the love of ease. ( ***** 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. * * * * * Virtuous and vicious every man must be, Few in th' extreme, but... | |
| James Ewell - 1827 - 868 pages
...flood-gates of every species of vico. "Vice is a monster of so frightful niienj As, to be hated, needs but to be seen ; Yet seen too oft, familiar with her face, We first endure, then pity, then embrace." POPE. It is also jrorthy of remark, that among the genteel circles in Charleston,... | |
| Alexander Pope - 1828 - 264 pages
...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. 22ft But where*the extreme of vice, was ne'er agreed : Ask where 's the north... | |
| Lindley Murray - 1828 - 268 pages
...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 purpose fi-rm, is equal to... | |
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