 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.  Broome, Pope, Pitt, Thomson - Page 222edited by - 1810Full view - About this book
 | Alexander Pope - 1832 - 86 pages
...Ask your own heart, and nothing is so plain ; 215 Tis to mistake them, costs the time and pain. V. Vice is a monster of so frightful mien, As, to be...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... | |
 | Lindley Murray - 1833 - 240 pages
...peace, my lot: AH else .beneath the sun, Thou know'st if best bestow'd or not, And let thy will be done. Vice is a monster of so frightful mien, As, to be...her face, We 6rst endure, then pity, then embrace. If nothing more than purpose in thy power, Thy purpose firm, is equal to the deed: 1Vfcc> does the... | |
 | Samuel Kirkham - 1834 - 360 pages
...it matters little' . , what else they have gained*. SECTION IV. PARAGRAPHS IN VERSE. Vice. — POPE. Vice' . . is a monster of so frightful mien', As',...seen'; Yet seen too oft', familiar with her face', We first' . . endure', then' . . pity', then' . . . embrace*. Fall of Babylon. — MOORE. W6". wo'!—... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1835 - 350 pages
...unite A thousand ways, is there no black or white ? Ask your own heart, and nothing is so plain ; 215 'Tis to mistake them, costs the time and pain. Vice...be seen ; Yet seen too oft, familiar with her face, We first endure, then pity, then embrace. 220 But where the extreme of vice, was ne'er agreed : Ask... | |
 | Lindley Murray - 1836 - 250 pages
...peace, my lot: All else beneath the sun, Thou know'st if best bestow'd or not, And let thy will be done. Vice is a monster of so frightful mien, As, to be...be seen : Yet seen too oft, familiar with her face, We first endure, then pity, then embrace. If nothing more than purpose in thy power, Thy purpose firm,... | |
 | Susanna Hopkins Mason - 1836 - 322 pages
...and similitudes. SM PHILOM'S VISION, 1794. WRITTEN BY A MOTHER FOR THE INSTRUCTION OF HER CHILDREN. " Vice is a monster of so frightful mien, As to be hated,...be seen ; Yet seen too oft, familiar with her face, We first endure, then pity, then embrace." I PHILOM, am a friend to virtue and literature. I was pondering... | |
 | 1836 - 784 pages
...their ancestors is a luminary through which virtues appear more lovely, but vices more hideous, for " Vice is a monster of so frightful mien, " As to be...seen ; " Yet seen too oft, familiar with! her face, " We first endure, then pity, then embrace." Since, then, high rank imposes, in its very nature, an... | |
 | Lindley Murray - 1837 - 260 pages
...my lot : All else beneath the sun, Thou know'st if best bestow'd or not, And let thy will be done. Vice is a monster of so frightful mien. As, to be...be seen : Yet seen too oft, familiar with her face, We first endure, then pity, then embrace. If nothing more than purpose in thy power, Thy purpose firm,... | |
 | Lindley Murray - 1838 - 120 pages
...bread, and peace, my lot . "'. * "s All else beneath the sun Thou know'st if best bestow'd or not, "Vice is a monster of so frightful mien, : ,. , ,...be seen : Yet seen too oft, familiar with her face, We first endure, then pity, then embrace. If nothing mere than purpose in thy power, Thy purpose firm,... | |
 | Pierce Egan - 1838 - 418 pages
...better, much better, for the visit. Yet, however, the experiment might be considered dangerous. Vice ii a monster of so frightful mien, As to be hated, needs...be seen ; Yet seen too oft, familiar with her face. We first endure, then pily, then embrace. The contrast which he had witnessed between bad and good... | |
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