| John Bell - 1796 - 524 pages
...Ask your own heart, and nothing is so plain ; 3i'5 'Tis to mistake them, costs the time and pain. V. 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. 210 But where the... | |
| Alexander Pope - 1798 - 140 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 hated, needs but to be seen; Tet seen too oft, familiar with her face, We first endure, then pity, then embrace. But... | |
| Rachel Hunter - 1803 - 234 pages
...any fudden impulfe of the mind : there is a time when, in regard to all, you may fay with the poet, Vice is a monster of so frightful mien, As to be hated needs but to be seen. But this ftate of moral rectitude will not fuffice to.keep offthe incroachments of vice.... | |
| Rachel Hunter - 1803 - 234 pages
...any fudden impulfe of the mind : there is a time when, in regard to all, you may fay with the poet, Vice is a monster of so frightful mien, As to be hated needs but to be seen. But this {late of moral rectitude will not fuffice to.keep offthe incroachments of vice.... | |
| Alexander Pope - 1804 - 232 pages
...Ask your own heart, and nothing is so plain ; 215 "Pis to mistake them costs the time and pain. V. 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'... | |
| Alexander Pope - 1804 - 218 pages
...white? Ask your own heart, and nothing is so plain ; Tis to mistake them costs the time and pain. V. 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. But where th' extreme... | |
| 1806 - 408 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 hated, needs but to be seen ; Yet seen too oft, familiar with her face, We first endure, then pity, then embrace. But where th' extreme... | |
| Eaton Stannard Barrett - 1807 - 602 pages
...become habit, and habit renders vice familiar, and consequently indifferent, or even pleasing to him : " 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." From precept we will... | |
| William Combe - 1807 - 310 pages
...? Or who will imbibe a bad sentiment, or adopt an errour in principle, from so odious an example ? Vice is a monster of so frightful mien, As to be hated needs but to be uv;i. . And thou, vain man, who sayest to thyself, " I will riot on the bounty of creation, and... | |
| Lindley Murray - 1808 - 542 pages
...This day be bread, and peace, my lot: All else beneath the sun Thou 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, We first endure, then pity, then embrace. If nothing more ihan... | |
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