 | Mike Thompson - 2002 - 200 страници
...the worst, and thus validate the warning of English poet/philosopher Alexander Pope: Vice is a matter of so frightful mien, As to be hated needs but to...too oft, familiar with her face, We first endure, then pity, then embrace. WHAT'S the DIFFERENCE? Doting Big Brothers and Sisters or Dating Big Brothers... | |
 | Edward W.L. Smith - 2010 - 202 страници
...morality poem, taken from Alexander Pope's An Essay on Man II, to point in the direction of an answer. Vice is a monster of so frightful mien As to be hated...too oft, familiar with her face, We first endure, then pity, then embrace [Ward edition, 1930, p. 206]. As I ponder this quatrain, the levels of meaning... | |
 | Mike Thompson - 2003 - 126 страници
...generally reacts when repeatedly exposed to evil, wicked or immoral human behavior: Vice is a matter of so frightful mien, As to be hated needs but to...too oft, familiar with her face, We first endure, then pity, then embrace. In recent years, too many Americans and their leaders cheerfully have hustled... | |
 | Walter Adams, James W. Brock - 1986 - 386 страници
...the legal strictures against conspiracy with the economic realities of oligopoly. CHAPTER Monopoly Vice is a monster of so frightful mien, As, to be...too oft, familiar with her face, We first endure, then pity, then embrace. Alexander Pope 10 THE WAVE OF CORPORATE consolidations at the turn of the... | |
 | 1943 - 442 страници
...Pope said about "vice" generally seems to apply with special force to the phenomenon of addiction: Vice is a monster of so frightful mien As to be hated...seen too oft, familiar with her face We first endure, then pity, then embrace. The Noncriminal Addict In addition to the noncriminal addicted medical man... | |
 | Helen Vendler - 2006 - 166 страници
...No statement could be more unequivocal, more apparently serious. And yet, hear how Pope continues: Vice is a monster of so frightful mien, As, to be...too oft, familiar with her face, We first endure, then pity, then embrace. But where th'Extreme of Vice, was ne'er agreed: Ask where 's the North? At... | |
 | Murray Polner - 2007 - 281 страници
...Man. Many people don't want Negroes in the major leagues but when it comes..." Then he began reciting: Vice is a monster of so frightful mien, As to be hated,...too oft, familiar with her face, We first endure, then pity, then embrace." He sat back in his chair, looked at the ceiling, and reached for the right... | |
 | Lee Lowenfish - 2007 - 716 страници
...overjoyed. He cited to his associates one of his favorite passages from Alexander Pope's "Essay on Man": Vice is a monster of so frightful mien As to be hated,...seen too oft, familiar with her face We first endure, then pity, then embrace.8 As Rickey interpreted the development, the players had endured Robinson's... | |
 | Michael E. Tigar - 2007 - 248 страници
...I use the word "mien" in the context of this trial as a kind of homage to Alexander Pope who wrote: Vice is a monster of so frightful mien, As to be hated...too oft, familiar with her face, We first endure, then pity, then embrace. 54. Military detachment of the Milice, police of the Vichy regime. 55. A local... | |
 | John Portmann - 2007 - 266 страници
...breeds sin; the taste of vice keeps inviting us back. As Alexander Pope once wrote in the Essays on Man, Vice is a monster of so frightful mien, As to be hated...too oft, familiar with her face, We first endure, then pity, then embrace. Repetition leads to perverse inclinations. Before we know it, we've fallen... | |
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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. 
