 | Nathan Dow George - 1846 - 224 strani
...every number is found more or less of this low stuff, but it is all right with the most of them. " 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." Although their patrons appear not at all disturbed by the weekly abuse heaped... | |
 | Lindley Murray - 1847 - 252 strani
...lot : All else beneath the sun, Thou know'st if best bestow'd or not. And let thy will be done. 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. If nothing more than purpose in thy power, Thy purpose firm, is equal to the... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1847 - 524 strani
...your own heart, and nothing is so plain ; 21 5 "Pis to mistake them, costs the time and pain. 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. 220 But where th' extreme of Vice, was ne'er agreed : Ask where's the North... | |
 | Alexander Pope, William Charles Macready - 1849 - 646 strani
...Ask your own heart, and nothing is so plain ; 'Tis to mistake them, costs the time and pain. V. Vice is a monster of so frightful mien, As, to be hated,...where the extreme of vice, was ne'er agreed : Ask where 's the north 1 at York, 'tis on the Tweed ; In Scotland, at the Orcades ; and there, At Greenland,... | |
 | Johann Wolfgang von Goethe - 1849 - 144 strani
...suffice, and that is from a poet deservedly celebrated for the harmony of his versification : — " 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." Humboldt remarks that the hexameters of Herman and Doro thea are not always... | |
 | Philip Wood - 1849 - 348 strani
...instant, but nobly breaking through the restraints of pride and shame, that would be our hindrance. "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." If we mark the footsteps of the backslider, in the wildering maze in which... | |
 | 1849 - 268 strani
...deceit and wrong, we soon grow callous to their effects. As Pope says, " Vice is a monster of such frightful mien, As, to be hated, needs but to be seen...too oft, familiar with her face, We first endure, then pity, then embrace." Politically considered, — what mighty changes in public opinion have resulted... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1850 - 94 strani
...Ask your own heart, and nothing is so plain ; Tis to mistake them , costs the time and pain. V. Vice is a monster of so frightful mien , As, to be hated...We first endure, then pity, then embrace. But where th' Extreme of Vice, was ne'er agreed : Ask where's the North? at York, 'tis on the Tweed; In Scotland,... | |
 | John Keefe Robinson - 1850 - 162 strani
...following lines might serve as a motto for their works, as descriptive of their moral effect:— " 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." Fielding, who probed and delineated human nature with the more delicate hand,... | |
 | John Field - 1850 - 534 strani
...grown, I plcas'd, and with attractive graces icon The most averse." Farad. Lost, Book ii. f " 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." Essay on Man, Ep. ii. J State of Prisons, p. 410. small for even one prisoner... | |
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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. 
