| Alexander Pope - 1798 - 140 Seiten
...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 hated, needs but to be seen; Tet seen too oft, familiar with her face, We first endure, then pity, then embrace. But... | |
| 1809 - 572 Seiten
...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,... | |
| Rachel Hunter - 1803 - 234 Seiten
...any fudden impulfe of the mind : there is a time when, in regard to all, you may fay with the poet, Vice is a monster of so frightful mien, As to be hated needs but to be seen. But this {late of moral rectitude will not fuffice to.keep offthe incroachments of vice.... | |
| Pierre Franc M'Callum - 1805 - 376 Seiten
...inclination for that which is evil, that the reformation of them would be more than Herculean labour. Vice, is a monster of so frightful mien, As, to be hated, needs but to be seen ; Yet soon, too oft, familiar with her face, We first endure, then pity, then embrace. POPE. It is in vain... | |
| Lindley Murray - 1808 - 178 Seiten
...my lot, All else beneath the sun Thou know'sl if best bestow'd or not, • And let thy will be done. Vice is a monster of so frightful mien, As, to be hated m.eds bui to be seen ; Yet seen too oil, familiar with her lace, Wr first t.ndure, then pity, then... | |
| Lindley Murray - 1809 - 114 Seiten
...peace, my 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, needs but to be seen : Yet seen tco oft, familiar with her facfc. We first endure, then pity, then embrace. If nothing more than purpose... | |
| Alexander Chalmers - 1810 - 536 Seiten
...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...be seen; Yet seen too oft, familiar with her face, We 6rst endure,' then pity, then embrace. 220 But where th' extreme of vice, was ne'er agreed : Ask... | |
| George Fulton - 1814 - 452 Seiten
...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 Seiten
...subjection, as to give us the proper mastery of them, and, in that 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,... | |
| William Creech - 1815 - 440 Seiten
...subjection, as to give us the proper mastery of them, and, in that case, how many evils do we avoid ? Pope says, Vice is a monster of so frightful mien, As, to he bated, needs but to be seen ; Yet seen too oft, familiar wi|h her face, We first endure, then pity,... | |
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