 | John Walker - Elocution - 1822 - 404 pages
...same slide in the last line of the couplet. EXAMPLE. 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. But where th' extreme of vice was ne'er agreed ; Ask where's the north, at... | |
 | Rebecca Edridge - 1822 - 758 pages
...pest to society as those punishable persons, who go about committing actual mischief. Pope says, " Vice is a monster of so frightful mien, As to be hated, needs but to be seen." There is however a possibility so to varnish the frightfulness of vice, that she shall... | |
 | John Walker - Elocution - 1823 - 406 pages
...to it, but in a higher tone of voice than the same slide in the last line of the couplet. EXAMPLE. Vice is a monster of so frightful mien, As to be hated...too oft, familiar with her face, We first endure, then pity, then embrace. But where th' extreme of vice was ne'er agreed ; Ask where's the north, at... | |
 | Lindley Murray - English language - 1823 - 116 pages
...not, And let thy will be done. Vice is a monster of so frightful mem, As, to he hated, needs but to he seen : ' Yet seen too oft, familiar with her face....then embrace. If nothing more than purpose in thy powet. Thy purpose firm, is equal to the deed i Who does the best his circumstance allows, Docs well,... | |
 | John Landseer - Babylonia - 1823 - 430 pages
...nor in fact, am 1 certain, 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... | |
 | Lindley Murray - English language - 1823 - 94 pages
...lot : All else beneath the sun Thou know'st if best bestow'd or not, And let thy will be done. **•. Vice is a monster of so frightful mien, As, to be hated, needs but to be seen : "Vet se«n too oft, familiar with her face, We first endure, then pity, then embrace.... | |
 | Lindley Murray - 1823 - 236 pages
...peace, my lot i All else beneath the sun Thou know'st if best bestow'd or not, And let thy will be done. 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.... | |
 | William Hazlitt - English poetry - 1824 - 1062 pages
...white ? Ask your own heart, and nothing is so plain ; 'Tie to mistake them, costs the time and pam. alth ! with all thy store, How dar'st thou let one...new-built churches round thee fall ? Make keys, bui then pity, then embrace. Bnt where th' extreme of vice, was ne'er agreed : Ask where's the north ?... | |
 | Jesse Torrey - Ethics - 1824 - 308 pages
...white? Ask your own heart, and nothing is so plain; 'Tis to mistake them, costs the time and pain. 21 Vice is a monster of so frightful mien, As, to be...too oft, familiar with her face, We first endure, then pity, then embrace. But where th' extreme of vice, was ne'er agreed ; Ask where's the North? at... | |
 | Thomas Brown - Philosophy - 1824 - 490 pages
...can be more just, than the picture of this sad progress, described in the well known lines of Pope: " Vice is a monster of so frightful mien, As, to be...seen ; Yet, seen too oft, familiar with her face, We first enHur*, then pity, then embrace. "• In the slow progress of some insidious disease, which... | |
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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. 
