 | George Fulton - 1814 - 452 pàgines
...line of a couplet generally ends with the rising inflexion, unless the last word be emphatic ; as, Vice is a monster of so frightful mien', As to be hated needs but to be seen1 ; Yet seen too oft, familiar with her face', We first endure, then pity, then embrace1.... | |
 | William Creech - 1815 - 428 pàgines
...case, how many evils do we avoid ? Pope says, Vice is a monster of so frightful mien, As, to be bated, needs but to be seen ; Yet seen too oft, familiar with her face, We first endure, then pity, then embrace. By reminding her of the ridiculous figure she frequently observes talking... | |
 | Jesse Torrey - 1817 - 126 pàgines
...slavery might be substituted in lieu of the word vice, in Pope's admirable stanza ? thus : Slavery is " monster of so frightful mien, As to be hated, needs...seen too oft, familiar with her face, We first endure — then pity — then embrace." t On the ensuing day, having persevered in endeavors to secure the... | |
 | Sir Thomas Fowell Buxton - 1818 - 158 pàgines
...and gradual advance. 'f Nemo repentefuit turpissimus. Vice is a monster of such hideous 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 — are the results of ancient and modern experience. Let us suppose, then,... | |
 | 1879 - 822 pàgines
...the friendless and the weak, we are not only a long way from justice, but from republican liberty. " Vice is a monster of so frightful mien As, to be hated needs but to be seen." But how can we hate it if we cannot see it? Or, if we wink at it or apologize for it,... | |
 | Thomas Ewing - 1819 - 448 pàgines
...white ? Ask your own 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...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 ?... | |
 | Lindley Murray - 1819 - 120 pàgines
...AP, to be hated, needs but to be seen : YetsCen too oft, familiar with her face, \Ve first tndure, then pity, then embrace. If nothing more than purpose...thy power, . Thy purpose firm, is equal to the deed : V ho does the best Us circumstance allows, Uoes well, acts nobly ; angels could no more. In faith... | |
 | 1819 - 384 pàgines
...gradual advance — Nemo repentefuit turpissimui — Vice is a monster of such hideous 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— .are the results of ancient and modern experience. " Let us suppose, then,... | |
 | John Moore - 1820 - 578 pàgines
...respecting vice in general is pecu.r Jiarly true when applied to scenes of cruelty : Which to be hated need but to be seen ; Yet seen too oft, familiar with her...face, We first endure, then pity, then embrace. If, then, a good government is one of the most powerful engines for precluding national vice and promoting... | |
 | John Moore, Robert Anderson - 1820 - 580 pàgines
...respecting vice in general is peculiarly true when applied to scenes of cruelty : Which to be hated need but to be seen ; Yet seen too oft, familiar with her face, We first endure, then pily, then embrace. If, then, a good government is one of the most powerful engines for precluding... | |
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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. 
