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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. "
Popish Legends, Or, Bible Truths - Page 168
by Catherine Sinclair - 1852 - 332 pages
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A Rhetorical Grammar: In which Improprieties in Reading and Speaking are ...

John Walker - 1822 - 404 pages
...same slide in the last line of the couplet. EXAMPLE. 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. But where th' extreme of vice was ne'er agreed...
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A Rhetorical Grammar: In which the Common Improprieties in Reading and ...

John Walker - 1823 - 406 pages
...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. But where th' extreme of vice was ne'er agreed...
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The Retrospective Review, Volume 7

1823 - 428 pages
...appointed to his present Office. By the Rev. Mr. Villette, Ordinary of Newgate, and others. " Vice is a monster. of such frightful mien, As, to be hated, needs but to be seen." Pope. London, 1776. In an article in a late number upon John Everett, a gentleman who...
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Retrospective Review, Volume 7

Henry Southern, Sir Nicholas Harris Nicolas - 1823 - 426 pages
...appointed to his present Office. By the Rev. Mr. Villette, Ordinary of Newgate, and others. " Vice is a monster of such frightful mien, As, to be hated, needs but to be seen." Pope. London, 1776. In an article in a late number upon John Everett, a gentleman who...
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The Museum of Foreign Literature, Science and Art, Volume 3

1823 - 584 pages
...appointed to his present Office. By the Rev. Mr. Villette, Ordinary of Newgate, and others. " Vice is a monster of such frightful mien, As, to be hated, needs but to be seen." Pope. London, 1776. IN an article in a late number upon John Everett, a gentleman who...
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The Retrospective Review, Volume 7

1823 - 428 pages
...appointed to his present Office. By the Rev. Mr. Villette, Ordinary of Newgate, and others. " Vice is a monster of such frightful mien, As, to be hated, needs but to be seen." Pope. London, 1776. In an article in a late number upon John Everett, a gentleman who...
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Select British Poets, Or, New Elegant Extracts from Chaucer to the Present ...

William Hazlitt - 1824 - 1062 pages
...heart, and nothing is so plain ; 'Tie to mistake them, costs the time and pam. Vice is a monster of so e, How dar'st thou let one worthy man be poor ? Shall half the new-built churches with her face, We first endure, then pity, then embrace. Bnt where th' extreme of vice, was ne'er agreed...
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Lectures on the Philosophy of the Human Mind, Volume 2

Thomas Brown - 1824 - 490 pages
...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. "• In the slow progress of some insidious...
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The Moral Instructor, and Guide to Virtue: Being a Compendium of Moral ...

Jesse Torrey - 1824 - 308 pages
...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. But where th' extreme of vice, was ne'er agreed...
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An Essay on Man: In Four Epistles to H. St. John, Lord Bolingbroke

Alexander Pope - 1824 - 84 pages
...and nothing is so plain : 215 Tisto 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' extreme of vice, was ne'er...
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