 | Lindley Murray - English language - 1808 - 542 pages
...know'st if best bestow'd or not; 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,...first endure, then pity, then embrace. If nothing more ihan purpose in thv power, Thy purpose firm, is equal to the deed: Who does the best his circumstance... | |
 | Lyman Beecher - Dueling - 1809 - 62 pages
...consider ? The reasoa is obvious— " 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.* This is precisely our alarming state. We have sunk through all these grades... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - English poetry - 1810 - 546 pages
...them, costs the time and pain. Vice it a monster of to frightful uiiun, As, to be hated, needs but to be seen; Yet seen 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... | |
 | William Warburton - 1811 - 444 pages
...lose the memory of her nature : 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. Which necessarily implies an equal ignorance in the G 3 nature nature of virtue.... | |
 | William Warburton, Richard Hurd - Anglican Communion - 1811 - 454 pages
...lose the memory of her nature : 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. Which necessarily implies an equal ignorance in the nature of virtue. Hence... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1812 - 348 pages
...mistake them, costs the time and pain. 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. 220 But where th' extreme of vice, was ne'er agreed : Ask where's the north... | |
 | Elegant poems - 1814 - 132 pages
...North ? at York, 'tis on the Tweed ; 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. 220 In Scotland, at the Orcades; and there, At Greenland, Zembla, or the Lord... | |
 | William Creech - Authors, Scottish - 1815 - 428 pages
...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
...Pope's admirable stanza ? thus : Slavery is " 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." t On the ensuing day, having persevered in endeavors to secure the... | |
 | Sir Thomas Fowell Buxton - Jails - 1818 - 158 pages
...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,... | |
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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. 
