| William Andrus Alcott - 1840 - 402 ページ
...celestial fire, yet is she speedily contaminated. Every body knows the language of the poet— " 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 most virtuous companion in the world will be unable to resist the torrent... | |
| Lindley MURRAY - 1841 - 144 ページ
...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,...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... | |
| 1841 - 488 ページ
...and never was sober truth more truly expressed than in those familiar lines of the poet — " 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." Diametrically opposed is this most true sentiment to a practice strongly... | |
| Carlo Barinetti - 1841 - 180 ページ
...in triumph. In the language of a master poet of the English literature, *' Vice is a monster of such frightful mien, As to be hated, needs but to be seen...too oft, familiar with her face, We first endure, then pity, then embrace." CHAPTER X. Slavery in the United States — Abolition and abolitionists —... | |
| 1876 - 302 ページ
...we sink into the practise of it ourselves. As the poet says too truly: ' Vice is a monster of such frightful mien, As to be hated, needs but to be seen;...too oft, familiar with her face, We first endure, then laugh at, then embrace.' So, through bad companions, we become infected with the leprosy of wickedness.... | |
| Peleg Whitman Chandler - 1844 - 410 ページ
...an unguarded hour. 'Tis a monster, and, as the immortal Pope expresses it upon another occasion, It is a monster of so frightful mien, As to be hated,...too oft, familiar with her face, We first endure, then pity, then embrace ! Let us see it therefore but once ! Let us consign it, O ye judges, to its... | |
| Alexander Pope - 1844 - 94 ページ
...own heart ; and nothing is so plain ; 215 'Tis to mistake them, costs the time and pain. i V. Vice is a monster of so frightful mien,^\ \ As, to be hated,...needs but to be seen ; ] Yet seen too oft, familiar to her face, IWe first endure, then pity, then embrace. 220 But where the extreme of vice was ne'er... | |
| Merritt Caldwell - 1845 - 352 ページ
...for religion ; write for it ; fight for it ; die for it; any thing but — live for it. 5. Vice— is a monster of so frightful mien, As to be hated,...oft, familiar with her face, We first — endure, then — pity, then — embrace. accumulated treasures of age ; her very ruins — tell the history... | |
| 1845 - 530 ページ
...impropriety of the act ; or even if he do see the worst, I agree with Pope — " Vice is a monster of such frightful mien, As, to be hated, needs but to be seen...too oft, familiar with her face, We first endure, then pity, then embrace." And Masonry, from evidently the same opinion, bids us " be temperate in all... | |
| Merritt Caldwell - 1846 - 390 ページ
...wrangle for religion ; write for it; fight for it; die for it; any thing but — live for it. 5. Vice — is a monster of so frightful mien, As to be hated,,...oft, familiar with her face, We first — endure, then — pity, then — embrace. accumulated treasures of age ; her very ruins — tell the history... | |
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