 | Lindley Murray - 1814 - 308 pages
...And let thy will be done. PARSING. 27 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 deed : Who does the best... | |
 | Elegant poems - 1814 - 132 pages
...North ? at York, 'tis on the Tweed ; 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 In Scotland, at the Orcades; and there, At Greenland, Zembla, or the Lord... | |
 | John Moore - 1816 - 272 pages
...are not exhibited before their eyes. The poet's observation respecting vice in general is peculiarly true when •applied to scenes of cruelty — Which...but to be seen; Yet seen too oft, familiar with her fnce, We first endure, then pity, theu embrncn. If then a good government is one of the most powerful... | |
 | Lindley Murray - 1817 - 216 pages
...know'st if best bestow'd or not', Vice is a monster of go frightful mien, As, to be hated, needs bat 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 deed : Who does the best... | |
 | Jesse Torrey - 1817 - 126 pages
...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 in endeavors to secure the... | |
 | Sir Thomas Fowell Buxton - 1818 - 158 pages
...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. Let us suppose, then,... | |
 | 1819 - 384 pages
...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. " Let us suppose, then,... | |
 | Thomas Ewing - 1819 - 448 pages
...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 : Ask where's the North ?... | |
 | John Moore, Robert Anderson - 1820 - 580 pages
...are not exhibited before their eyes. The poet's observation respecting vice in general is peculiarly true when applied to scenes of cruelty : Which to...too oft, familiar with her face, We first endure, then pily, then embrace. If, then, a good government is one of the most powerful engines for precluding... | |
 | John Aikin - 1820 - 832 pages
...costs the time and pain. V. Vice is a monster of so frightful mien, As, to be hated, needs but to he eep. And bid the weltering waves their cozy channel Ring out, ye then pity, then embrace. But where th' extreme of vice, was ne'er agreed : Ask where's the north ?... | |
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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. 
