 | John Bell - English poetry - 1796 - 524 pages
...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 agreed... | |
 | Philadelphia (Pa.) - 1809 - 572 pages
...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 Dickinson - Constitutional law - 1801 - 468 pages
...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 been... | |
 | John Walker - Elocution - 1801 - 424 pages
...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 agreed;... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1804 - 232 pages
...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 agreed... | |
 | Tobias Smollett - English literature - 1805 - 582 pages
...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 Front... | |
 | Patrick Colquhoun - Crime - 1806 - 736 pages
...tantamount to 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 clearly,... | |
 | English poetry - 1806 - 408 pages
...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 agreed... | |
 | Eaton Stannard Barrett - 1807 - 602 pages
...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. CHAPTER... | |
 | Thomas Lloyd - Bank robberies - 1808 - 202 pages
...the Jury, when they will discover it to be like the vice that is described in the words of the poet, Vice is a monster, of such horrid mien. That to be hated). needs but to be seen. What has been the evidence brought forward to support iheir defence, let us take it in the strongest... | |
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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. 
