 | George Fulton - 1814 - Страниц: 452
...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 - Страниц: 428
...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 - Страниц: 126
...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... | |
 | Lindley Murray - 1817 - Страниц: 216
...know'st if best bestow'd or not', Vice is a monster of go frightful mien, As, to be hated, needs bat to be seen: Yet seen 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... | |
 | Sir Thomas Fowell Buxton - 1818 - Страниц: 158
...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 - Страниц: 822
...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 - Страниц: 448
...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...We first endure, then pity, then embrace. But where the Extreme of Vice, was ne'er agreed : Ask where's the North ? at York, 'tis on the Tweed ; In Scotland,... | |
 | Lindley Murray - 1819 - Страниц: 718
...peace, my lot ; All else beneath the sun Thou knows't if beat bestow'd or not ; Vice ia a monster of BO frightful mien, As, to be hated, needs but to be seen...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... | |
 | 1819 - Страниц: 384
...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 Aikin - 1820 - Страниц: 832
...costs the time and pain. V. Vice is a monster of so frightful mien, As, to be hated, needs but to he eep. And bid the weltering waves their cozy channel...have power to touch our senses so ; And let your ; In Scotland, at the Orcades ; and there, At Greenland, Zembla, or the Lord knows where. No creature... | |
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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. 
