 | John Walker - Elocution - 1823 - 406 pages
...to it, but in a higher tone of voice than the same slide in the last line of the couplet. EXAMPLE. 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... | |
 | Lindley Murray - 1823 - 236 pages
...peace, my lot i 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 hut to be seen: Yet seen too oft, familiar with her face, We first endure, then pity, then embrace.... | |
 | William Hazlitt - English poetry - 1824 - 1062 pages
...white ? Ask your own heart, and nothing is so plain ; 'Tie to mistake them, costs the time and pam. alth ! with all thy store, How dar'st thou let one worthy man be p to be seen ; Yet seen too oft, familiar with her face, We first endure, then pity, then embrace. Bnt... | |
 | Jesse Torrey - Ethics - 1824 - 308 pages
...white? Ask your own heart, and nothing is so plain; 'Tis to mistake them, costs the time and pain. 21 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... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1824 - 422 pages
...? Ask your own heart, and nothing is so plain ; 215 '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 ; COMMENTARY. one another insensibly in a well-wrought picture, make the harmony and spirit... | |
 | Alexander Pope - English literature - 1824 - 424 pages
...? Ask your own heart, and nothing is so plain ; 215 '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 ; COMMENTARY. one another insensibly in a well-wrought picture, make the harmony and spirit... | |
 | Thomas Brown - Philosophy - 1824 - 490 pages
...can be more just, than the picture of this sad progress, described in the well known lines of Pope: " 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 enHur*, then pity, then embrace. "•... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1825 - 504 pages
...appearance, Plutarch had in his hands all the plays of Aristophanes, which were at least fifty in number. 1 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. Pope's... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1825 - 504 pages
...appearance, Plutarch had in his hands all the plays of Aristophanes, which were at least fifty in number. r 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. Pope's... | |
 | British anthology - 1825 - 460 pages
...white ? Ask your own heart, and nothing is so plain ; 'Tis to mistake them costs the time and pain. 5. Vice is a monster of so frightful mien, As to be hated needs but to he seen ; Yet seen too oft, familiar with her face, . We first endure, then pity, then embrace.... | |
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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. 
