 | William Hazlitt - English poetry - 1825 - 600 pages
...? Ask your own heart, and nothing is so plain ; 'Tis to mistake them, eosts the time and pain. Viee <1= then pity, then embraee. But where th' extreme of viee was ne'er agreed : Ask where's the north ? at... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1825 - 476 pages
...appearance, Plutarch had in his hands all the plays of Aristophanes, which were at least fifty in number. ' Vice is a monster of so frightful mien, As, to be hated, needs but to be seen ; Vet seen too ofi, familiar with her face, We 6rst endure, then pity, then embrace. Pope's... | |
 | British anthology - 1825 - 460 pages
...white ? Ask your own heart, and nothing is so plain ; 'Tis to mistake them costs the time and pain. 5. Vice is a monster of so frightful mien, As to be hated needs but to he seen ; Yet seen too oft, familiar with her face, . We first endure, then pity, then embrace.... | |
 | Sarah Green - 1825 - 730 pages
...sometimes reverse the picture, and find that bad mothers may produce a good offspring; for often " Vice is a monster of so frightful mien, As to be hated, needs but to be seen;" especially when the naturally virtuous observer is also a victim of vice so unmasked.... | |
 | Lindley Murray - 1826 - 190 pages
...me. This day be bread, and peace, my lot ; All else beneath the sun,* Thou know'st if best l>f stow'd or not, And let thy will be done. Vice is a monster of so frightful mien, As, to be hated, needs but to he seen : Yet seen too oft, familiar with her face, We first endure, then pity, then embrace. If... | |
 | James Wright Simmons - Literature - 1826 - 136 pages
...and, we doubt not, by that of almost every 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... | |
 | John Scott - Church history - 1826 - 638 pages
...are in danger of realizing the observation of the poet : Vice is a monster of so foul a mien As, to be hated, needs but to be seen, Yet, seen too oft, familiar with the face, We first endure, then pity, then embrace. Persecution, it is true, is a crime to which our... | |
 | George Fulton - English language - 1826 - 456 pages
...first Une of a couplet generally ends with the rising inflexion, unless the last word be emphatic; as, Vice is a monster of so frightful mien', As to be hated needs hut to be seen'; Yet seen too oft, familiar with her face', We first endure, then pity, then embrace'.... | |
 | Catholics - 1825 - 362 pages
...innocence and virtue.* Well has the poet said, ' Vice is a monster of such frijjhtful mien, Tliut lo be hated needs but to be seen ; Yet seen too oft, familiar will) her fact', At first we pity, and we then embrace.' In the next place, where every thing connected... | |
 | Anthologies - 1827 - 290 pages
...oft (more strong than all) the love of ease. ( ***** Vice is a monster of so frightful mein, As, to be hated, needs but to be seen ; Yet seen too oft, familiar with her face, We first endure, then pity, then embrace. * * * * * Virtuous and vicious every man must be, Few in th' extreme, but... | |
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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. 
