 | Stories - 1799 - 188 pages
...alas ! too soon broken through. So true is it that — " Vice is a monster of such hideous mien, As to be hated needs but to be seen ; But, seen too oft, familiar grows her face : We first endure, then pity, then embrace." One day a few of the older boys of the... | |
 | Elizabeth Strutt - 1807 - 274 pages
...self-love, and the triumph of vanity. VOL. II. K CHAP. CHAP. XXXII. Vice is a monster of such hideous mein, As to be hated needs but to be seen, But seen too oft familiar grows her face, We first endure, then pity, then embrace. POPE. PERHAPS vice is never more certain... | |
 | James A. Maitland - 1816 - 330 pages
...disquiet their peaceful dreams. CHAPTER XXI. THE PORGEK. " Vice ia a monster of so foul a mien As to be hated, needs but to be seen ; But seen too oft, familiar with the face, We first endure, then pity, then embrace." " I AM sure there M something the matter, George,"... | |
 | 1818 - 510 pages
...guilt and danger of actually committing it vanish. " Vice is a monster of such hideous mien, A» to be hated, needs but to be seen ; But seen too oft, familiar with its face, We first begin to pity, then embrace." 4. Excuses are invented for the indulgence of the... | |
 | Proverbs, Spanish - 1823 - 404 pages
...vice, make a person lose shame in committing it. " Vice is a monster of such frightful mien " That to be hated needs but to be seen ; " But seen too oft, familiar with its face, " We first endure, then pity, then embrace. " Quando fueres yunque, sufre como yunque; quando... | |
 | Elizabeth Heyrick - Enslaved persons - 1824 - 40 pages
...caught the poet's idea, that — " Vice is a monster of such frightful mien, " As to be hated, need but to be seen ; " But, seen too oft, familiar with her face, " We first endure, then pity, then embrace." He caught the idea, and knew how to turn it to advantage. — He knew very... | |
 | Regina Maria Roche - 1825 - 926 pages
...precipitate in carrying into effect. H2 CHAPTER VII. " Vice is a monsler 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 suffer her embrace." WHILE young Mordaunt was revelling in the indulgence of guilty anticipations,... | |
 | 1825 - 448 pages
...with impurity, that its more disgusting forms and expressions merely excite the passing smile. " [93 Vice is a monster of such frightful mein, As to be hated, need but to be seen: But seen too oft, familiar with her face, We first endure, then pity, then embrace.... | |
 | James Wright Simmons - Literature - 1826 - 128 pages
...other man. (i) Analogy of religion. Part I. Chap. V. (fc) Vice is a monster of so 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. ESSAY ON MAN. When the Poet wrote the above lines, he must have designed them... | |
 | D R. Thomason - 1827 - 230 pages
...universally admitted, weakens its power to repel and disgust: Vice is a monster of so 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. * The actor, in personating bad characters, must direct his thoughts into... | |
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Vice is a monster of so 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. 
