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| Stories - 1799 - 188 Seiten
...alas ! too soon broken through. So true is it that — " Vice is a monster of such hideous mien, As to be hated needs but to be seen ; But, seen too oft, familiar grows her face : We first endure, then pity, then embrace." One day a few of the older boys of the... | |
| Elizabeth Strutt - 1807 - 274 Seiten
...the triumph of vanity. VOL. II. K CHAP. CHAP. XXXII. Vice is a monster of such hideous mein, As to be hated needs but to be seen, But seen too oft familiar grows her face, We first endure, then pity, then embrace. POPE. PERHAPS vice is never more certain... | |
| Thomas Lloyd - 1808 - 202 Seiten
...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... | |
| James Johnson - 1815 - 564 Seiten
...Dr. Bancroft forget what the poet sa} s of a still greater evil than dirtiness ?. — *• Vice is a monster of such horrid mien, " That, to be hated, needs but to be seen ; " But seen too oft I" &c. &c. Let us beware, then, of imitating the infidel, who, by subverting what he is pleased to... | |
| James A. Maitland - 1816 - 330 Seiten
...disquiet their peaceful dreams. CHAPTER XXI. THE PORGEK. " Vice ia a monster of so foul a mien As to be hated, needs but to be seen ; But seen too oft, familiar with the face, We first endure, then pity, then embrace." " I AM sure there M something the matter, George,"... | |
| 1818 - 510 Seiten
...guilt and danger of actually committing it vanish. " Vice is a monster of such hideous mien, A» to be hated, needs but to be seen ; But seen too oft, familiar with its face, We first begin to pity, then embrace." 4. Excuses are invented for the indulgence of the... | |
| 1823 - 404 Seiten
...Familiarity with vice, make a person lose shame in committing it. " Vice is a monster of such frightful mien " That to be hated needs but to be seen ; " But seen too oft, familiar with its face, " We first endure, then pity, then embrace. " Quando fueres yunque, sufre como yunque; quando... | |
| Elizabeth Heyrick - 1824 - 40 Seiten
...caught the poet's idea, that — " Vice is a monster of such frightful mien, " As to be hated, need but to be seen ; " But, seen too oft, familiar with her face, " We first endure, then pity, then embrace." He caught the idea, and knew how to turn it to advantage.... | |
| Regina Maria Roche - 1825 - 926 Seiten
...precipitate in carrying into effect. H2 CHAPTER VII. " Vice is a monsler of such frightful mien. As to be hated, needs but to be seen ; But seen too oft, familiar with her face, We first endure, then suffer her embrace." WHILE young Mordaunt was revelling in the indulgence of... | |
| 1825 - 448 Seiten
...merely excite the passing smile. " [93 Vice is a monster of such frightful mein, As to be hated, need but to be seen: But seen too oft, familiar with her face, We first endure, then pity, then embrace. But, Sir, can we do this, till the mind has undergone a transformation,... | |
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