 | Lyman Beecher - 1809 - 62 pages
...enormity of the crime — why did they not know — why did they not consider ? The reasoa is obvious— " Vice is a monster of so frightful mein, " As to be...oft, familiar with her face, ' ' We first endure, then pity, then embrace.* This is precisely our alarming state. We have sunk through all these grades... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1810 - 546 pages
...plain ; 'Tis to mistake them, costs the time and pain. Vice it a monster of to frightful uiiun, 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 agreed : Ask where's the north... | |
 | Alexander Chalmers - 1810 - 536 pages
...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 6rst endure,' then pity, then embrace. 220 But where th' extreme of vice, was ne'er agreed : Ask... | |
 | William Warburton - 1811 - 444 pages
...and in time begin to lose the memory of her nature : 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. Which necessarily implies an equal ignorance in the G 3 nature nature of virtue.... | |
 | William Warburton (Bp. of Gloucester), Richard Hurd - 1811 - 446 pages
...and in time begin to lose the memory of her nature : 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. Which necessarily implies an equal ignorance in the c nature nature of virtue.... | |
 | Lindley Murray - 1812 - 224 pages
...mercy show to me. This day be bread, and peace, my lot : 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 than purpose in thy power, Thy purpose firm, is equal to the... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1812 - 348 pages
...; 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 ; 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 where's the north... | |
 | Lindley Murray - 1814 - 308 pages
...bestow'd or not, And let thy will be done. PARSING. 27 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 than purpose in thy power, Thy purpose firm, is equal to the... | |
 | J A. Stewart - 1814 - 798 pages
...them contribute to their high advantage. Verse. Vice is a monster of so frightfnl 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 than purpose in thy power, Thy purpose firm, is equal to the... | |
 | Elegant poems - 1814 - 132 pages
...*sk where's-the North ? at York, 'tis on the Tweed ; 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 In Scotland, at the Orcades; and there, At Greenland, Zembla, or the Lord... | |
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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. 
