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
| Matthew Gregory Lewis - 1839 - 416 pages
...of virtue were pictured for their imitation. This, we presume, was done upon the principle that, " Vice is a monster of such hideous mien, As to be hated, needs but to be seen ;" than which, no maxim was ever more hazardous in the application. Vice, unhappily, has... | |
| Lindley Murray - 1839 - 232 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... | |
| Lindley Murray - 1839 - 110 pages
...or not, And let thy will be done. The tame c* fomil 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... | |
| Hermann Hedwig Bernard - 1839 - 208 pages
...1? ' лот т» ^з лт " " па i» 'fs)çin па 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. Tnrp. ]3 n?$1 mqa 1"^TS & "riri ^"? nc ^jly... | |
| 1839 - 510 pages
...first struck him with almost insupportable horror. " 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." Look for the good, the wealthy, the influential... | |
| Eugene Francis O'Beirne - 1840 - 232 pages
...lest they should shock their penitents by too abrupt a view of the impurities of the Confessional. " Vice is a monster of such hideous mien, As to be hated, needs but to be seen : But seen too oft, familar with her face, We soon approve, admire, and then embrace." The... | |
| Eugene Francis O'Beirne - 1840 - 246 pages
...lest they should shock their penitents by too abrupt a view of the impurities of the Confessional. " Vice is a monster of such hideous mien, As to be hated, needs but to be seen : But seen too oft, familar with her face, We soon approve, admire, and then embrace." The... | |
| William Andrus Alcott - 1840 - 402 pages
...contaminated. Every body knows the language of the poet— " 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 most virtuous companion in the world will... | |
| William Augustus Gordon Hake - 1840 - 164 pages
...indolence is at last loved;] and that despotic power, like 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. France is the solitary exception. The French understand... | |
| Lindley Murray - 1840 - 262 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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