 | Lindley Murray, Allen Fisk - 1846 - 180 Seiten
...diamondsglitteron an anxious breast. Vice is a monster of so frightful mein, As, to be hated, needs but to be seen ; Yet seen too oft, familiar with her face, We...then embrace. If nothing more than purpose in thy power, Thy purpose firm is equal to the deed ; Who does the best his circumstance allows, Does well,... | |
 | Merritt Caldwell - 1846 - 390 Seiten
...but — live for it. 5. 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. accumulated treasures of age ; her very ruins — tell the history... | |
 | Nathan Dow George - 1846 - 226 Seiten
...right with the most of them. " 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." Although their patrons appear not at all disturbed by the weekly abuse heaped... | |
 | Benjamin W. Williams - 1846 - 70 Seiten
...the same philosophic poet : Vice is a monster of so frightful mein, As to be hated needs but to be seen ; Yet, seen too oft, familiar with her face, We first endure, then pity, then embrace. The admitted fact that the offspring of intemperate parents are more apt to... | |
 | Lindley Murray - 1847 - 252 Seiten
...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...then embrace. If nothing more than purpose in thy power, Thy purpose firm, is equal to the deed : Who does the best his circumstance allows, Does well,... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1847 - 524 Seiten
...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 Vice, was ne'er agreed : Ask where's the North... | |
 | 1982 - 348 Seiten
...Mix." Florence M. Stellwagen 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 the debt I pay Just for one riotous day , - Years of regret and grief,... | |
 | Dante Alighieri - 1985 - 436 Seiten
...Essay on Man (ii, 217-20): "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." This passage contains an allusion to that first moment of horror caused by... | |
 | Richard John Neuhaus - 1986 - 300 Seiten
...words of Pope are pertinent: 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. The monstrous becomes habitual, and we cannot afford but to be on friendly... | |
 | John R. Rice - 2000 - 568 Seiten
...viewpoint of Sodom. Pope says: 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. David looked on Bathsheba bathing, then sent for her, then seduced her, then... | |
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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. 
