 | Alexander Pope - 1812 - 348 pages
...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...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... | |
 | Lindley Murray - English language - 1812 - 224 pages
...That mercy I to others show. That mercy show to me. This day be bread, and peace, my lot : Vice is a monster of so frightful mien, As, to be hated- needs...too oft, familiar with her face, We first endure, then pity, then embrace. If nothing more than purpose in thy power, Thy purpose firm, is equal to the... | |
 | Elegant poems - 1814 - 132 pages
...the extreme of vice, was ne'er agreed, *sk where's-the North ? at York, 'tis on the Tweed ; Vice is a monster of so frightful mien, As, to be hated, needs...too oft, familiar with her face, We first endure, then pity, then embrace. 220 In Scotland, at the Orcades; and there, At Greenland, Zembla, or the Lord... | |
 | Lindley Murray - English language - 1814 - 308 pages
...beneath the sun Thou know'st if best bestow'd or not, And let thy will be done. PARSING. 27 Vice is a monster of so frightful mien, As, to be hated, needs...too oft, familiar with her face, We first endure, then pity, then embrace. If nothing more than purpose in thy power, Thy purpose firm, is equal to the... | |
 | J A. Stewart - 1814 - 792 pages
...enjoying so many good things, than discontented because there are any which we want. Verse. Vice is a monster of so frightful mien, As, to be hated, needs...too oft, familiar with her face, We first endure, then pity, then embrace. If nothing more than purpose in thy power, Thy purpose firm, is equal to the... | |
 | J A. Stewart - 1814 - 798 pages
...them contribute to their high advantage. Verse. Vice is a monster of so frightfnl 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 nothing more than purpose in thy power, Thy purpose firm, is equal to the... | |
 | William Creech - Authors, Scottish - 1815 - 428 pages
...case, how many evils do we avoid ? Pope says, Vice is a monster of so frightful mien, As, to be bated, needs but to be seen ; Yet seen too oft, familiar with her face, We first endure, then pity, then embrace. By reminding her of the ridiculous figure she frequently observes talking... | |
 | Jesse Torrey - Africa, West - 1817 - 126 pages
...slavery might be substituted in lieu of the word vice, in Pope's admirable stanza ? thus : Slavery is " monster of so frightful mien, As to be hated, needs...seen too oft, familiar with her face, We first endure — then pity — then embrace." t On the ensuing day, having persevered in endeavors to secure the... | |
 | Lindley Murray - English language - 1817 - 216 pages
...know'st if best bestow'd or not', Vice is a monster of go frightful mien, As, to be hated, needs bat to be seen: Yet seen too oft, familiar with her face, We first endure, then pity, then embrace. If nothing more than purpose in thy power, Thy purpose firm, is equal to the... | |
 | Sir Thomas Fowell Buxton - Capital punishment - 1818 - 158 pages
...and gradual advance. 'f Nemo repentefuit turpissimus. Vice is a monster of such hideous 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 — are the results of ancient and modern experience. Let us suppose, then,... | |
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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. 
