| Mary T. Tardy - 1870 - 476 páginas
...illustrating the truth of Pope's familiar lines: " ' Vice id a monster of such frightful mien, As to be hated needs but to be seen ; But seen too oft, familiar with its face, We first endure, then pity, then embrace.' " And how docs St. Elmo feel, think, act... | |
| William Landels - 1870 - 266 páginas
...practice renders it familiar. Truly does the poet say, " Vice is a monster of such frightful mien, That to be hated needs but to be seen ; But seen too oft, familiar with his face, We first endure, then pity, then embrace." The flagrant wrong shocks the habitual and... | |
| Joseph Hertford - 1870 - 362 páginas
...next listened, and at last approved. As the poet says : " Vice is a monster of so frightful mien As to be hated needs but to be seen ; But seen too oft, familiar with her face, We first endure, then pity, then embrace." . " ' And thus I thought that in the vision... | |
| George E. Sargent, George Etell Sargent - 1871 - 296 páginas
...So true it is, in all human experience, that,— " Vice is a monster of such hideous mien, That, to be hated, needs but to be seen ; But, seen too oft>...familiar grows her face ; We first endure, then pity, then embrace." And man or boy, whoever he may be, who listens to temptation to any wrong-doing, and... | |
| 1871 - 586 páginas
...Church life, substituting " error " for "vice" : " Error is a monster of such hideous mien, That to be hated needs but to be seen ; But seen too oft', familiar wilh its face, We first endure, then pity, then embrace." I will not dwell longer upon this aspect... | |
| Charles Walton Sanders - 1859 - 468 páginas
...narrative, descriptive, or didactic sentences. EXAMPLES. 1- Vice is a monster of so frightful mien, As, to be hated, needs but to be seen; But, seen too oft, familiar with her face, Wo first endure, then pity, then embrace. 2. There is as much eloquence in the tone... | |
| Robert William Dale, James Guinness Rogers - 1884 - 1122 páginas
...ways. Pope's old-fashioned lesson has truth in it — "Vice is a monster of such hideous 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." We regret that a fault of this kind should... | |
| Melville De Lancey Landon - 1871 - 274 páginas
...lines from a copy of Pope's Essay on Man : — " Vice is a monster of such frightful mien, That to be hated needs but to be seen :— But seen too oft — familiar with its face We first endure, then pity — then embrace :— But where's the extreme of vice ? 'twas... | |
| William Butler - 1872 - 568 páginas
...in regard to heathenism the reality of the lines, "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." • They paid a certain deference to idol... | |
| Nicholas Francis Cooke - 1873 - 422 páginas
...lady can listen to or behold without pollution. "Vice is a creature of such hideous 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." Thus a bad education impresses upon the whole... | |
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