| 1839 - 510 Seiten
...very vices which at first struck him with almost insupportable horror. " 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." Look for the good, the wealthy, the influential among our commercial citizens... | |
| John William Carleton - 1856 - 802 Seiten
...those days of scarce-disguised dissoluteness — none the worse, though, for being undisguised, for " Vice is a monster of so frightful mien As, to be hated, needs but to be seen ; Yet" Well, the less often we all see it, the better. To found a paper upon such a basis was clearly impossible... | |
| Lindley Murray - 1840 - 262 Seiten
...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...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... | |
| William Andrus Alcott - 1840 - 402 Seiten
...the 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...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... | |
| William Augustus Gordon Hake - 1840 - 164 Seiten
...inaction itself sweet : and at first abhorred indolence is at last loved;] and that despotic power, like vice, is A monster of so frightful mien, As, to be...too oft, familiar with her face, We first endure, then pity, then embrace. France is the solitary exception. The French understand well to assert and... | |
| Brandon Turner - 1840 - 258 Seiten
...conduct? " Fools! who from hence into the notion fall, That vice or virtue there is none at all. If white and black blend, soften, and unite A thousand ways, is there no black or white?" — Pope. LESSON XIII. RULE XIII. " Cheerfulness keeps up a kind of daylight in the mind, and fills... | |
| John Aikin - 1841 - 840 Seiten
...the vice. Fools ! who from hence into the notion fall, That vice or virtue there is none at all. If And one more pensioner St. Stephen gaina. My lady...him, Coningsby harangues; The court forsake him, and loo oft, familiar with her face, We first endure, then pity, then embrace. But where th' extreme of... | |
| Lindley MURRAY - 1841 - 144 Seiten
...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...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 Seiten
...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,...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 Seiten
...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 —... | |
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