 Vice is a monster of such 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.  The Elements of Moral Science - Side 54af Francis Wayland - 1835 - 448 siderFuld visning - Om denne bog
 | 1814 - 568 sider
...familiarly with the debauched and wicked. " Vice is a monster of such frightful mien, As to be hated needs but to be seen ; But seen too oft, familiar with her face, We first admire, next pity, then embrace." The fox, when he first saw a lion, ran from him in great... | |
 | Elizabeth Heyrick - 1824 - 40 sider
...caught the poet's idea, that — " Vice is a monster of such frightful mien, " As to be hated, need but to be seen ; " But, seen too oft, familiar with her face, " We first endure, then pity, then embrace." He caught the idea, and knew how to turn it to advantage. — He knew very... | |
 | Regina Maria Roche - 1825 - 926 sider
...in carrying into effect. H2 CHAPTER VII. " Vice is a monsler of such frightful mien. As to be hated, needs but to be seen ; But seen too oft, familiar with her face, We first endure, then suffer her embrace." WHILE young Mordaunt was revelling in the indulgence of guilty anticipations,... | |
 | 1825 - 448 sider
...merely excite the passing smile. " [93 Vice is a monster of such frightful mein, As to be hated, need but to be seen: But seen too oft, familiar with her face, We first endure, then pity, then embrace. But, Sir, can we do this, till the mind has undergone a transformation, from... | |
 | James Wright Simmons - 1826 - 128 sider
...(i) Analogy of religion. Part I. Chap. V. (fc) 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. ESSAY ON MAN. When the Poet wrote the above lines, he must have designed them... | |
 | D R. Thomason - 1827 - 230 sider
...admitted, weakens its power to repel and disgust: 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. * The actor, in personating bad characters, must direct his thoughts into... | |
 | 1830 - 690 sider
...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...We first endure, then pity, then embrace." It is, therefore, at best but an ingenious fallacy to contend, that because persons play in private parties,... | |
 | William Lothian - 1828 - 580 sider
...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 - 684 sider
..." Vice is a creature of such hideous mien, That to be hated needs but to be seen ; ('•in 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 persons play in private parties,... | |
 | 1828 - 580 sider
...previously have regarded it with abhorrence. " Vice is a creature of such hideous mien, That to bo hated needs but to be seen; But seen too oft, familiar with her face, Wo first endure, then pity, then embrace." It is, therefore, at best but an ingenious fallacy to contend,... | |
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