 | John Bell - 1796 - 524 страници
...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 extremes of vice was ne'er... | |
 | 1809 - 572 страници
...abhorrence and detestation they would otherwise excite. " Vice is a monster of such hideous mien, As, to be hated, needs but to be seen — Yet, seen too oft, familiar with its face, We first endure, then pity, then embrace." And by suppressing the praises due to virtue,... | |
 | John Walker - 1801 - 424 страници
...tone ef voice than the same slide in the last line of the couplet. is a monster of so frightful 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 the extreme of vice was ne'er... | |
 | John Dickinson - 1801 - 468 страници
...applicable to vice in politics, as to vice in ethics. " Vice is a monster of so horrid mien, *' As to be hated, needs but to be seen ; ** Yet seen too oft, familiar with her face, " We first endure, then/tfVjy, then embrace.'.' When an act injurious to freedom has... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1804 - 232 страници
...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' extreme of vice was ne'er... | |
 | Tobias Smollett - 1805 - 582 страници
...present \ve shall only observe, that these Memoirs are to be read but not studied j for though ' Vice to be hated needs but to be seen,' . ' Yet seen too oft, familiar with her face, • We first endure, then pity, then embrace.* • If is unnecessary to eiplain the... | |
 | Pierre Franc M'Callum - 1805 - 376 страници
...is evil, that the reformation of them would be more than Herculean labour. Vice, is a monster of so frightful mien, As, to be hated, needs but to be seen ; Yet soon, too oft, familiar with her face, We first endure, then pity, then embrace. POPE. It is in vain... | |
 | 1806 - 408 страници
...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 of vice, was ne'er... | |
 | Patrick Colquhoun - 1806 - 736 страници
...carrying them to a school of vice and debauchery— Vice is a monster of such frightful mien, That to be hated needs but to be seen ; Yet seen too oft — familiar with her face, We first endure — then pity — then embrace. For the purpose of understanding more... | |
 | Eaton Stannard Barrett - 1807 - 602 страници
...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 now come to example.... | |
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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. 
