| British anthology - 1825 - 460 páginas
...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.... | |
| Samuel Johnson - 1825 - 500 páginas
...appearance, Plutarch had in his hands all the plays of Aristophanes, which were at least fifty in number. ' 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... | |
| Charles M. Ingersoll - 1825 - 298 páginas
...peace, my lot; 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 but to be seen : * Yet seen too oft, familiar with her facf , We first endure, then pity, then embrace.... | |
| William Hazlitt - 1825 - 600 páginas
...? Ask your own heart, and nothing is so plain ; 'Tis to mistake them, eosts the time and pain. Viee <1= to be seen ; Yet seen too oft, familiar with her face, We first endure, then pity, then embraee. But... | |
| Lindley Murray - 1826 - 184 páginas
...ray lot ; 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 but to be seen : Yet seen too oft, familiar with her face, We first endure, then pity, then embrace. If... | |
| Lindley Murray - 1826 - 190 páginas
...lot ; All else beneath the sun,* Thou know'st if best l>f stow'd or not, And let thy will be done. 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. If... | |
| George Fulton - 1826 - 456 páginas
...first Une of a couplet generally ends with the rising inflexion, unless the last word be emphatic; as, 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'.... | |
| D R. Thomason - 1827 - 230 páginas
...be safe. Familiarity with vice, it is universally admitted, weakens its power to repel and disgust: 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. * The actor, in personating bad characters, must direct his thoughts into... | |
| William Lothian - 1828 - 580 páginas
...sentiment is well expressed by an English poet: " Vice is a monster of such frightful mein, As, to be hated, needs but to be seen; But seen too oft, familiar with her face, We first endure, then pity, then embrace." The Apostle would illustrate his meaning by a familiar example. Did they... | |
| 1830 - 690 páginas
...have regarded it with abhoirence. " Vice is a creature of such hideous mien, That to be hated needa but to be seen ; But seen too oft, familiar with her face, We first endure, then pity, then embrace." It is, therefore, at best but an ingenious fallacy to contend, that because... | |
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