| John Bell - 1796 - 524 pagina’s
...Ask your own heart, and nothing is so plain ; 3i'5 'Tis to mistake them, costs the time and pain. V. Vice is a monster of so frightful mien, As to be hated...too oft', familiar with her face, We first endure, then pity, then embrace. 210 But where the extremes of vice was ne'er agreed : Ask Where's the north... | |
| John Walker - 1801 - 424 pagina’s
...tone ef voice than the same slide in the last line of the couplet. is a monster of so frightful 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 was ne'er agreed; Ask where's the North, at... | |
| John Dickinson - 1801 - 468 pagina’s
...applicable to vice in politics, as to vice in ethics. " Vice is a monster of so horrid mien, *' As to be hated, needs but to be seen ; ** Yet seen too oft, familiar with her face, " We first endure, then/tfVjy, then embrace.'.' When an act injurious to freedom has been once done, and the people bear... | |
| John Moore - 1803 - 322 pagina’s
...vice in general, is peculiarly true when applied to scenes of cruelty : — " Which to be hated, need but to be seen ; Yet seen too oft, familiar with her face, We first endure, then pity, then embrace." ENNUI. Or all the contrivances to exclude this intruding demon from the mind... | |
| Alexander Pope - 1804 - 232 pagina’s
...Ask your own heart, and nothing is so plain ; 215 "Pis to mistake them costs the time and pain. V. Vice is a monster of so frightful mien, As to be hated...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... | |
| Tobias Smollett - 1805 - 582 pagina’s
...present \ve shall only observe, that these Memoirs are to be read but not studied j for though ' Vice to be hated needs but to be seen,' . ' Yet seen too oft, familiar with her face, • We first endure, then pity, then embrace.* • If is unnecessary to eiplain the Front meaning of the vfOiAjriaJ, whca... | |
| Pierre Franc M'Callum - 1805 - 376 pagina’s
...inclination for that which is evil, that the reformation of them would be more than Herculean labour. Vice, is a monster of so frightful mien, As, to be hated, needs but to be seen ; Yet soon, too oft, familiar with her face, We first endure, then pity, then embrace. POPE. It is in vain... | |
| 1806 - 408 pagina’s
...white ? Ask your own heart, and nothing is so plain ; 'Tis to mistake them costs the time and pain. Vice is a monster of so frightful mien, As, to be...too oft, familiar with her face, . We first endure, then pity, then embrace. But where th' extreme of vice, was ne'er agreed r Ask where's the North ?... | |
| Patrick Colquhoun - 1806 - 736 pagina’s
...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. For the purpose of understanding more clearly, by what means it is... | |
| Eaton Stannard Barrett - 1807 - 602 pagina’s
...become habit, and habit renders vice familiar, and consequently indifferent, or even pleasing to him : " Vice is a monster of so frightful mien, As, to be...too oft, familiar with her face, We first endure, then pity, then embrace." From precept we will now come to example. CHAPTER VI. OIVES AN ACCOUNT OF... | |
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