| Stories - 1799 - 188 Seiten
...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 school were sitting upon the playground bench,... | |
| James A. Maitland - 1816 - 330 Seiten
...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,... | |
| 1818 - 510 Seiten
...guilt and danger of actually committing it vanish. " Vice is a monster of such hideous mien, A» 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... | |
| 1823 - 404 Seiten
...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, familiar with its face, " We first endure, then pity, then embrace. " Quando fueres yunque, sufre como yunque;... | |
| Regina Maria Roche - 1825 - 926 Seiten
...precipitate 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... | |
| James Wright Simmons - 1826 - 128 Seiten
...other man. (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... | |
| D R. Thomason - 1827 - 230 Seiten
...universally 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,... | |
| William Lothian - 1828 - 580 Seiten
...whole body ? This sentiment 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... | |
| William Newnham - 1830 - 390 Seiten
...may ever prevail with you to be at peace with it:— " 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." Its first approaches then must be narrowly... | |
| Denny R. Thomason - 1831 - 212 Seiten
...universally 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,... | |
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