 | Stories - 1799 - 188 pages
...guard upon his own lips — a guard, alas ! too soon broken through. So true is it that — " Vice is a monster of such hideous mien, As to be hated needs but to be seen ; But, seen too oft, familiar grows her face : We first endure, then pity, then embrace." One day a few of the older boys of the... | |
 | Philadelphia (Pa.) - 1809 - 572 pages
...diminish, particularly in young minds, the abhorrence and detestation they would otherwise excite. " Vice is a monster of such hideous mien, As, to be hated, needs but to be seen — Yet, seen too oft, familiar with its face, We first endure, then pity, then embrace."... | |
 | Elizabeth Strutt - 1807 - 274 pages
...the triumph of vanity. VOL. II. K CHAP. CHAP. XXXII. Vice is a monster of such hideous mein, As to be hated needs but to be seen, But seen too oft familiar grows her face, We first endure, then pity, then embrace. POPE. PERHAPS vice is never more certain... | |
 | Thomas N. Brown - 1859 - 360 pages
...know this failing of humanity ; and, therefore, when, vice was to be pourtrayed, it stalked forth * A monster of such hideous mien, As, to be hated, needs but to be seen ;' and when virtue was brought on the stage, she appeared in pure white muslin and all sorts... | |
 | James A. Maitland - 1816 - 330 pages
...disquiet their peaceful dreams. CHAPTER XXI. THE PORGEK. " Vice ia a monster of so foul a mien As to be hated, needs but to be seen ; But seen too oft, familiar with the face, We first endure, then pity, then embrace." " I AM sure there M something the matter, George,"... | |
 | 1818 - 510 pages
...guilt and danger of actually committing it vanish. " Vice is a monster of such hideous mien, Ať to be hated, needs but to be seen ; But seen too oft, familiar with its face, We first begin to pity, then embrace." 4. Excuses are invented for the indulgence of the particular sin which... | |
 | Sir Thomas Fowell Buxton - Jails - 1818 - 158 pages
...mind arrives at enormity in guilt by a slow 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 —... | |
 | Charities - 1819 - 384 pages
...arrives at enormity in guilt by a slow and gradual advance — Nemo repentefuit turpissimui — 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—... | |
 | James Inglis - Presbyterian Church - 1820 - 406 pages
...nity, how can you, with fixed purpose, rise above its influence? It has been finely said, that Vice is a monster of such hideous mien As, to be hated, needs bat to be seen. But can you see the true character of this moral monster without viewing it attentively?... | |
 | Proverbs, Spanish - 1823 - 404 pages
...vice, make a person lose shame in committing it. " Vice is a monster of such frightful mien " That to be hated needs but to be seen ; " But seen too oft,...with its face, " We first endure, then pity, then embrace. " Quando fueres yunque, sufre como yunque; quando fueres martillo Mere como martillo. —... | |
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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. 
