 | Angelina Emily Grimké - HISTORY - 1838 - 138 pages
...years ? You remember the lines of Pope, beginning : 'Vice is a monster, of so frightful mien As to be hated, needs but to be seen, But seen too oft, familiar with her (ace ; "We first endure, then pity, then embrace.' I had become so familiar with the loathsome features... | |
 | London female mission - 1840 - 478 pages
...propensities within. So true is the oft-quoted verse — Vice is a creature of such hideous mien, That to he hated needs but to be seen ; But seen too oft, familiar with her face, We first endure, then pity, then embrace. Of this we have been reminded by the following affecting narrative, by the... | |
 | College students' writings, American - 1842 - 512 pages
...yet it is insidiously urging the passions to yield. " Vice is a monster of so hideous mien, That to be hated needs but to be seen : But seen too oft — familiar with her face — We first endure, then pity, then embrace." Although we esteem highly the spirit of the poet-philosopher in the above... | |
 | Samuel Richard Bosanquet - Great Britain - 1843 - 452 pages
...certain, and im* The lines of Pope will be recollected : " 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, 2nd book, 1. 216. See Archdeacon Samuel Wilberforce's Sermon,... | |
 | Edward Royall Tyler, William Lathrop Kingsley, George Park Fisher, Timothy Dwight - United States - 1856 - 652 pages
...According to the well known law of human nature, " Vice is a monster of so frightful mein, That to be hated. needs but to be seen — But 'seen too oft, familiar with her face, We first endure, then pity, then embrace." And so, they quiet down the emotion which is wont to rise, and steel the... | |
 | Samuel Richard Bosanquet - Great Britain - 1843 - 452 pages
...certain, and im• The lines of Pope will be recollected : " 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, 2nd book, 1. 216. See Archdeacon Samuel Wilberforce's Sermon,... | |
 | Criticism - 1856 - 652 pages
...According to the well known law of human nature, "Vice U a rn ouster of so frightful mein , That to be hated, needs but to be seen — But Seen too oft, familiar with her face, We first endure, then pity, then embrace." And so, they quiet down the emotion which is wont to rise, and steel the... | |
 | Simon Clough - Sermons, American - 1843 - 574 pages
...finally led to the repetition of the same scenes. " 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." Seriously consider how many, within the compass of your own knowledge, have... | |
 | Francis Wayland - 1843 - 420 pages
...improved or impaired. Pope says, truly, Vice is a monster of so frightful mien, As, to be dreaded, needs but to be seen; But, seen too oft, familiar with her face, We first eudure, then pity, then embrace. It is almost unnecessary to remark, that this fact will enable... | |
 | 1847 - 800 pages
...may well be questioned, for, as the poet says — " Vice is a monster of such hideous mien, That to be hated, needs but to be seen ; But seen too oft, familiar with her face — We first endure, then pity, then embrace !" This question, however, we do not wish to touch upon : but we fully concur... | |
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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. 
