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" 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. "
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Proverbs, Chiefly Taken from the Adagia of Erasmus, with ..., Volume 1

1814 - 568 pages
...familiarly with the debauched and wicked. " 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 admire, next pity, then embrace." The fox, when he first saw a lion, ran from him in great...
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Immediate, Not Gradual Abolition, Or, An Inquiry Into the Shortest, Safest ...

Elizabeth Heyrick - 1824 - 40 pages
...caught the poet's idea, that — " Vice is a monster of such frightful mien, " As to be hated, need but to be seen ; " But, seen too oft, familiar with her face, " We first endure, then pity, then embrace." He caught the idea, and knew how to turn it to advantage. — He knew very...
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The castle chapel

Regina Maria Roche - 1825 - 926 pages
...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 indulgence of guilty anticipations,...
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The Evangelical rambler [by T. East]., Volume 3

1825 - 448 pages
...merely excite the passing smile. " [93 Vice is a monster of such frightful mein, As to be hated, need but to be seen: But seen too oft, familiar with her face, We first endure, then pity, then embrace. But, Sir, can we do this, till the mind has undergone a transformation, from...
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An Inquiry Into the Moral Character of Lord Byron

James Wright Simmons - 1826 - 128 pages
...(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 lines, he must have designed them...
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Fashionable amusements [by D.R. Thomason.].

D R. Thomason - 1827 - 230 pages
...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, must direct his thoughts into...
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Expository Lectures on Paul's Epistles to the Corinthians

William Lothian - 1828 - 580 pages
...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 by a familiar example. Did they...
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The Spirit of the Pilgrims, Volume 3

1830 - 690 pages
...have regarded it with abhoirence. " Vice is a creature of such hideous mien, That to be hated needa but to be seen ; But seen too oft, familiar with her face, We first endure, then pity, then embrace." It is, therefore, at best but an ingenious fallacy to contend, that because...
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Religious Magazine: Or, Spirit of the Foreign Theological Journals ..., Volume 1

1828 - 580 pages
...previously have regarded it with abhorrence. " Vice is a creature of such hideous mien, That to bo hated needs but to be seen; But seen too oft, familiar with her face, Wo first endure, then pity, then embrace." It is, therefore, at best but an ingenious fallacy to contend,...
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Memoir of the late mrs. Newnham, of Farnham; with a selection from her ...

William Newnham - 1830 - 390 pages
...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 watched ; and an early and anxious...
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