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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. "
Denver Medical Times - Page 373
1901
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The Pro and Con of Universalism: Both as to Its Doctrines and Moral Bearings ...

George Rogers - Universalism - 1840 - 410 pages
...sometimes be, but invariably bitter in the stomach. I cannot quite subscribe to the popular distich, that " Vice is a monster of so frightful mien, As to be hated, needs but to be seeji." In regard to some vices, this is undoubtedly true ; but not in regard to all. Some assume...
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Murray's English Exercises ...: Revised, Prepared and Particularly Adapted ...

Lindley Murray - 1840 - 262 pages
...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 face. We first endure, then pity, then embrace. If...
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Select Works of the British Poets: In a Chronological Series from Ben Jonson ...

John Aikin - English poetry - 1841 - 840 pages
...white ? Ask your own heart, and nothing is so plain ; 'Tis to mistake them, costs the time and pain. V. rt forsake him, and to be seen ; Yet seen loo oft, familiar with her face, We first endure, then pity, then embrace. But...
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Abridgment of Murray's English Grammar. Improved, with an enlarged appendix ...

Lindley MURRAY - 1841 - 144 pages
...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 face, We first endure, then pity, then embrace. If...
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The Patriarch; Or Family Library Magazine, Volumes 1-2

1841 - 488 pages
...virtues ; 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, needs but to be seen ; Yet seen too oft, familiar with her face, We first endure, then pity, then embrace." Diametrically...
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The Bible of Nature, and Substance of Virtue, Condensed from the Scriptures ...

Free thought - 1842 - 1124 pages
...material interels in the universal Nature. To Pope's picture of vice, we may venture a counterpart: " Vice is a. monster of so frightful mien, As to be hated, needs but to be seen ;" Virtue's misunderstood attractive face, Her votaries riuns, in their sincere embrace.*...
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Littell's Living Age, Volume 110

American periodicals - 1871 - 880 pages
...appreciation. And wherever he appears to launch out again-n it, it is but an appearance. Vice, says he, is " A monster of so frightful mien. As to be hated needs but to be seen." But we donbt if Pope had ever seen it. The original source of this illustration is, as our readers are...
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An Essay on Man: In Four Epistles to Henry St. John, Lord Bolingbroke

Alexander Pope - 1844 - 94 pages
...your 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...
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The Living Age, Volume 325

American periodicals - 1925 - 778 pages
...counter-restraint. In no city are 'temptations' of any kind less tempting. In Glasgow, if nowhere else, Vice is a monster of so frightful mien As, to be hated, needs but to be seen. The concrete result seems to be, in football terms, a draw. Glasgow has little ill behavior,...
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American Criminal Trials, Volume 2

Peleg Whitman Chandler - Crime - 1844 - 410 pages
...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, needs but to be seen ; Yet seen too oft, familiar with her face, We first endure, then pity, then embrace ! Let...
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