 | William Warburton - 1811 - 444 pages
...once grown familiar with her, we first suffer, and in time begin to lose the memory of her nature : Vice is a monster of. so frightful mien, As, to be...too oft, familiar with her face, We first endure, then pity, then embrace. Which necessarily implies an equal ignorance in the G 3 nature nature of virtue.... | |
 | William Warburton (Bp. of Gloucester), Richard Hurd - Theology - 1811 - 446 pages
...once grown tamiliar with her, we first suffer, and in time begin to lose the memory of her nature : Vice is a monster of so frightful mien, As, to be...too oft, familiar with her face, We first endure, then pity, then embrace. Which necessarily implies an equal ignorance in the c nature nature of virtue.... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1812 - 348 pages
...? Ask your own heart, and nothing is so plain ; 215 'Tis to mistake them, costs the time and pain. Vice is a monster of so frightful mien, As, to be...too oft, familiar with her face, We first endure, then pity, then embrace. 220 But where th' extreme of vice, was ne'er agreed : Ask where's the north... | |
 | Elegant poems - 1814 - 132 pages
...But where the extreme of vice, was ne'er agreed, *sk where's-the North ? at York, 'tis on the Tweed ; Vice is a monster of so frightful mien, As, to be...too oft, familiar with her face, We first endure, then pity, then embrace. 220 In Scotland, at the Orcades; and there, At Greenland, Zembla, or the Lord... | |
 | George Fulton - English language - 1814 - 452 pages
...line 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 but to be seen1 ; Yet seen too oft, familiar with her face', We first endure, then pity, then embrace1.... | |
 | William Creech - Authors, Scottish - 1815 - 428 pages
...case, how many evils do we avoid ? Pope says, Vice is a monster of so frightful mien, As, to be bated, needs but to be seen ; Yet seen too oft, familiar with her face, We first endure, then pity, then embrace. By reminding her of the ridiculous figure she frequently observes talking... | |
 | Jesse Torrey - Africa, West - 1817 - 126 pages
...slavery might be substituted in lieu of the word vice, in Pope's admirable stanza ? thus : Slavery is " monster of so frightful mien, As to be hated, needs...seen too oft, familiar with her face, We first endure — then pity — then embrace." t On the ensuing day, having persevered in endeavors to secure the... | |
 | Sir Thomas Fowell Buxton - Jails - 1818 - 158 pages
...and gradual advance. 'f Nemo repentefuit turpissimus. Vice is a monster of such hideous 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 — are the results of ancient and modern experience. Let us suppose, then,... | |
 | Methodist Church - 1879 - 822 pages
...the friendless and the 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,... | |
 | Thomas Ewing - Elocution - 1819 - 448 pages
...white ? Ask your own heart, and nothing is so plain ; 'Tis to mistake them, costs the time and pain. 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 the Extreme of Vice, was ne'er agreed : Ask where's the North ?... | |
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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. 
