 | Stories - 1799 - 188 pagina’s
...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... | |
 | 1809 - 572 pagina’s
...otherwise excite. " Vice is a monster of such hideous mien, As, to be hated, needs but to be seen — Yet, seen too oft, familiar with its face, We first endure, then pity, then embrace." And by suppressing the praises due to virtue, we fatally lose the benefit of its salutary... | |
 | Patrick Colquhoun - 1806 - 736 pagina’s
...often exhibited in the Theatres, is tantamount to carrying them to a school of vice and debauchery— Vice is a monster of such frightful mien, That to be hated needs but to be seen ; Yet seen too oft — familiar with her face, We first endure — then pity — then embrace.... | |
 | Elizabeth Strutt - 1807 - 274 pagina’s
...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... | |
 | James Johnson - 1815 - 564 pagina’s
...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 pagina’s
...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,"... | |
 | William Cobbett - 1817 - 800 pagina’s
...who were placed at the helm of affairs in France. Indeed, the subject in discussion appeard to him. " ——a monster, of such frightful mien, That to be hated, needs but to be seen." A ul iu justice to the right hou. mover, he was inclined to believe he was not sincere in his... | |
 | 1818 - 510 pagina’s
...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 particular sin which... | |
 | 1823 - 406 pagina’s
...may be free from observation. — Familiarity with vice, make a person lose shame in committing it. " Vice is a monster of such frightful mien " That to...with its face, " We first endure, then pity, then embrace." Quando fueres yunque, sufre como yunque ; quando fueres martillo hiere como martillo. —... | |
 | Great Britain. Parliament - 1823 - 818 pagina’s
...dead-weight bill ; and indeed, it would be found a dead weight, to clog the wheels of government. It was " a monster of such frightful mien, • • That to be hated, needs but to be seen." Though he wished the debt to be got rid of, he wished it to be known as his opinion, that the... | |
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Vice is a monster of such frightful mien, That to be hated, needs but to be seen; But seen too oft, familiar with her face, We first endure, then pity, then embrace. 
