 | 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... | |
 | Thomas Coke - 1810 - 478 pagini
...it in a state of purity. But this, at present, is rather an object of our wishes than our hopes. " Vice is a monster of such frightful mien, :• As to be hated, needs but to be seen." Whether, therefore, self interest, or a better motive, shall be made the medium of illumination,... | |
 | Mrs. Roberts (Margaret Wade) - 1812 - 312 pagini
...would be 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 seem" But, my dear Sir, whoever may have the happiness of being selected as the companion of... | |
 | 1814 - 568 pagini
...who would keep his morals untainted, must not associate familiarly with the debauched and wicked. " Vice is a monster of such frightful mien, As to be...be seen ; But seen too oft, familiar with her face, We first admire, next pity, then embrace." The fox, when he first saw a lion, ran from him in great... | |
 | New Church gen. confer - 1872 - 634 pagini
...nor one grain of gold which we did not buy in Hatton Garden t Ex uno discs.. In vain Pope wrote : " Vice is a monster of such frightful mien As to be hated needs but to be seen," becanse, though fresh from any villany, our looking-glass shews us no such fright. Some... | |
 | Margaret Roberts - 1815 - 308 pagini
...would be 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... | |
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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. 
