| English literature - 1833 - 554 pages
...can judge by experience, invariably produce disgust, as I believe, with my favourite poet, that — ' Vice is a monster of such hideous mien, That, to be hated, needs but to be seen.' But he who has known it can never truly describe woman as she ought to be described ; and, therefore,... | |
| Poets, English - 1825 - 454 pages
...most effectual check to vice ; and of that opinion was Pope when he said : — " Vice is an object of such hideous mien, That to be hated needs but to be seen." Once for all, — we positively deny that Lord Byron's works are more immoral than many of those... | |
| Congregational churches - 1830 - 684 pages
...the full reality, though we might previously have regarded it with abhoirence. " Vice is a creature of such hideous mien, That to be hated needs but to be seen ; ('•in seen too oft, familiar with her face, We first endure, then pity, then embrace." It... | |
| Allan Cunningham - Architects - 1832 - 358 pages
...was sarcastically observed, that the town, respecting the first work, thought with the poet, — " Vice is a monster of such hideous mien That to be hated needs but to be seen," — and came in crowds to look and loathe, and walk home wiser and amended : but, with regard to the second,... | |
| Methodist Church - 1833 - 516 pages
...to receive or require refutation, and we may say after all he has ever written on this topic, ' It is a monster of such hideous mien, That to be hated, needs but to be seen.' We have thus devoted a much larger space to this mischievous production than we designed, but... | |
| George Gordon N. Byron (6th baron.) - 1834 - 188 pages
...judge by experience, invariably produce disgust ; as I believe, with my favourite poet, that " Vice i« a monster of such hideous mien, That, to be hated, needs but to be seen." But he who has known it can never truly describe woman as she ought to be described ; and, therefore,... | |
| English literature - 1837 - 612 pages
...on their quires of " orders " and voluminous " free list," no wonder they complain of bankruptcy ; for " Vice is a monster of such hideous mien, That, to be hated, needs but to be seen." Whenever a moral man (and morality is not yet so dead in the minds of Englishmen as the managers... | |
| 1837 - 646 pages
...that, with a single verbal alteration, the lines of the poet might be applied to him : — " Schism is a monster of such hideous mien, That to be hated needs but to be seen, Yet seen too oft, familiar with her face, We first endure, then pity, then embrace." Wesley hesitated... | |
| William B. English - City and town life - 1843 - 98 pages
...RESPECTFULLY DEDICATED, As a slight token of respect and esteem, BT WILLIAM B. ENGLISH. INTRODUCTION. " Vice is a monster of such hideous mien, That to be HATED, needs but to be BEEN." THE story of ROSINA MEADOWS is one of real life, and it has been the aim of the author to illustrate... | |
| Archibald Alison - Europe - 1844 - 1156 pages
...scacciano di loro, la pongono sopra un altro, com« se lusse necessario, offendere o esser ofleso." f " Vice is a monster of such hideous mien, That to be hated needs but to be seen ; But seen too oft, familiar with his face, We first endure, then pity, then embrace." — POP*.... | |
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