 | Lindley Murray - English language - 1823 - 116 pages
...others show, This day be bread and peace my lot ; AH elSe heneath the sun Thou know'st if hest hestow'd or 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. We first endure,... | |
 | 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... | |
 | 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 needs but to be seen ; Yet seen too oft, familiar with her face, We first endure, then pity, then embrace.... | |
 | 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 hated, needs but to be seen ; Yet, seen too oft, familiar with her face, We first enHur*, 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 worthy man but to be seen ; Yet seen too oft, familiar with her face, We first endure, then pity, then embrace.... | |
 | 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 hated, needs but to be seen ; Yet seen too oft, familiar with her face, We first endure, then pity, then embrace.... | |
 | 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... | |
 | 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... | |
 | Charles M. Ingersoll - English language - 1825 - 298 pages
...see ; .. > That mercy 1 to others show ; That mercy show to me. This day be bread, and peace, my lot; All else beneath the sun Thou know'st if best bestow'd...monster of so frightful mien As, to be hated, needs but to be seen : * Yet seen too oft, familiar with her facf , We first endure, then pity, then embrace.... | |
 | Sarah Green - 1825 - 730 pages
...sometimes reverse the picture, and find that bad mothers may produce a good offspring; for often " Vice is a monster of so frightful mien, As to be hated, needs but to be seen;" especially when the naturally virtuous observer is also a victim of vice so unmasked.... | |
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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. 
