 | 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... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1824 - 422 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 hated, needs but to be seen ; COMMENTARY. one another insensibly in a well-wrought picture, make the harmony and spirit... | |
 | Alexander Pope - English literature - 1824 - 424 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 hated, needs but to be seen ; COMMENTARY. one another insensibly in a well-wrought picture, make the harmony and spirit... | |
 | Andrew Knapp, William Baldwin (Attorney at law) - Crime - 1824 - 612 pages
...carrying them to a school of vice and debauchery : Vice U a nunsler of fuch frightful mien, That tu be hated needs but to be seen ; Yet seen too oft — familiar wnh her face, We first eudure — then pity — then embraíe. For the purposeof understanding more... | |
 | Charles M. Ingersoll - English language - 1825 - 298 pages
...an anxious breast. Teach me to feel another's wo, .< . To hide the fault I see ; .. > That mercy 1 to others show ; That mercy show to me. This day be...to be seen : * Yet seen too oft, familiar with her facf , We first endure, then pity, then embrace. If nothing more than purpose in thy power, Thy purpose... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1825 - 504 pages
...appearance, Plutarch had in his hands all the plays of Aristophanes, which were at least fifty in number. 1 Vice is a monster of so frightful mien, As, to be...too oft, familiar with her face, We first endure, then pity, then embrace. Pope's Essay on Man, ii. 217. Fn these he saw more licentiousness than has... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1825 - 504 pages
...appearance, Plutarch had in his hands all the plays of Aristophanes, which were at least fifty in number. r Vice is a monster of so frightful mien, As, to be...too oft, familiar with her face, We first endure, then pity, then embrace. Pope's Essay on Man, ii. 217. I n these he saw more licentiousness than has... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1825 - 500 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...too oft, familiar with her face, We first endure, then pity, then embrace. Pope's Essay on Man, ii. 217. In these he saw more licentiousness than has... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1825 - 502 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...too oft, familiar with her face, We first endure, then pity, then embrace. Pope's Essay on Man, ii. 217. In these he saw more licentiousness than has... | |
 | 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... | |
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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. 
