 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.  Mooriana: Or, Selections from the Moral, Philosophical, and Miscellaneous ... - Page 234by John Moore - 1803Full view - About this book
 | John Bell - English poetry - 1796 - 524 pages
...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 agreed : Ask Where's the north... | |
 | John Dickinson - Constitutional law - 1801 - 468 pages
...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 been once done, and the people bear... | |
 | John Walker - Elocution - 1801 - 424 pages
...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 agreed; Ask where's the North, at... | |
 | John Moore - 1803 - 312 pages
...general, is peculiarly true when applied to scenes of cruelty : — " Which to be hated, need but too be seen ; Yet seen too oft, familiar with her face,...We first endure, then pity, then embrace." ENNUI. OF all the contrivances to exclude this intruding demon from the mind of man, the most debasing and... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1804 - 232 pages
...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 agreed : Ask where's the North... | |
 | Crime - 1804 - 474 pages
...school of vice and debauchery.— Vice is a monster of snch frightful mien, That to be hated needs hut to be seen ; Yet seen too oft — familiar with her face, We first endure — then pity — then embrace. For the purpose of understanding more clearly by what means it is possible... | |
 | Tobias Smollett - English literature - 1805 - 582 pages
...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 Front meaning of the vfOiAjriaJ, whca... | |
 | English poetry - 1806 - 408 pages
...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 agreed r Ask where's the North ?... | |
 | Patrick Colquhoun - Crime - 1806 - 736 pages
...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 clearly, by what means it is... | |
 | Eaton Stannard Barrett - 1807 - 602 pages
...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. CHAPTER VI. OIVES AN ACCOUNT OF... | |
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