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 castle chapel - Pagina 138de Regina Maria Roche - 1825Vizualizare completă - Despre această carte
| Stories - 1799 - 188 pagini
...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... | |
| Rachel Hunter - 1803 - 234 pagini
...the mind : there is a time when, in regard to all, you may fay with the poet, Vice is a monster of so frightful mien, As to be hated needs but to be seen. But this {late of moral rectitude will not fuffice to.keep offthe incroachments of vice. She is too fubtle... | |
| Elizabeth Strutt - 1807 - 274 pagini
...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... | |
| Margaret Roberts - 1815 - 308 pagini
...able to resist all its attractions; and, under any disguise it might assume, to find it, ' A monster of such frightful mien, As to be hated, needs but to be seen.' But, my dear Sir, whoever may have the happiness of being selected as the companion of'your daughter, you,... | |
| James A. Maitland - 1816 - 330 pagini
...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 pagini
...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... | |
| 1879 - 822 pagini
...weak, we are not only a long way from justice, but from republican liberty. " Vice is a monster of so frightful mien As, to be hated needs but to be seen." But how can we hate it if we cannot see it? Or, if we wink at it or apologize for it, why should it not... | |
| 1823 - 404 pagini
...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... | |
| John Landseer - 1823 - 430 pagini
...that mere misgiving is not here flowing from my pen. It may be true that " Vice is a monster of so frightful mien, " As to be hated needs but to be seen .•" But we cannot with similar reliance upon the word of a poet, trust Astronomical monuments to the public... | |
| Elizabeth Heyrick - 1824 - 40 pagini
...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... | |
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