 | Lindley Murray - 1847 - 252 Seiten
...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 too oft, familiar with her face, We first endure, then pity, then embrace. If nothing more than purpose... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1847 - 524 Seiten
...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, 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... | |
 | Alexander Pope, William Charles Macready - 1849 - 646 Seiten
...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, 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,... | |
 | Philip Wood - 1849 - 348 Seiten
...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 needs but to be seen ; Yet seen too oft, familiar with her face, We first endure, then pity, then embrace." If we mark the footsteps of... | |
 | Johann Wolfgang von Goethe - 1849 - 144 Seiten
...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 needs but to be seen ; Yet seen too oft, familiar with her face, We first endure, then pity, then embrace." Humboldt remarks that the hexameters... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1850 - 94 Seiten
...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 , 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,... | |
 | John Field - 1850 - 534 Seiten
...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, needs but to be seen ; Yet seen too oft, familiar with her face, We first endure, then pity, then embrace." Essay on Man, Ep. ii. J State... | |
 | John Keefe Robinson - 1850 - 162 Seiten
...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, needs but to be seen : Yet, seen too oft, familiar with her face, We first endure, then pity, then embrace." Fielding, who probed and delineated... | |
 | Lyman Beecher - 1852 - 462 Seiten
...enormity of the crime, — why do they not know? why do they not consider 1 The reason is obvious : " 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." This is precisely our alarming... | |
 | 1852 - 874 Seiten
...Ask your own heart, and nothing is so plain ; 'Tis to mistake them, costs the time and pain. V. Vice and keen ; sound Temperance, Healthful in heart and look ; clear Chastity, With blushe oft, familiar uith her face, We first endure, then pity, then embrace. But where th' extreme of vice,... | |
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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. 
