| William Lothian - 1828 - 580 sivua
...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 by a... | |
| 1828 - 580 sivua
...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... | |
| William Newnham - 1830 - 390 sivua
...and deceitful forms 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 watched... | |
| Denny R. Thomason - 1831 - 218 sivua
...with vice, it is 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, must... | |
| Joseph Holt Ingraham - 1835 - 306 sivua
...application. With half-averted eyes they at first view slavery as " A monster of such horrid mien, That to be hated needs but to be seen : But seen too oft, familiar with her face, They soon endure — and in the end embrace." Many of the planters are northerners. When... | |
| Joseph Holt Ingraham - 1835 - 304 sivua
...application. With half-averted eyes they at first view slavery as " A monster of such horrid mien, That to be hated needs but to be seen : But seen too oft, familiar with her face, They soon endure — and in the end embrace." Many of the planters are northerners. When... | |
| sir Archibald Alison (1st bart.) - 1835 - 706 sivua
...inevitable either to give or receive offence." •J- Vice is a monster of such hideous mein, That to be hated needs but to be seen; But seen too oft, familiar with his face, We first endure, then pity, then embrace. appeared in its true colours ; they become steeped... | |
| William Leete Stone - 1836 - 234 sivua
...associations, and to render them as sweet as innocent, as innocent as gay, as gay as happy : — 4 Vice is a monster of such frightful mien, As to be...needs but to be seen ; But seen too oft, familiar with his face, We first endure, then pity, then embrace.' Knowing this to be true from experience, the principal... | |
| Hermann Bokum - 1836 - 116 sivua
...his neighbors. In short, we are ever and ever reminded here of the poet, who well observes, that *' Vice is a monster of such frightful mien, As to be...needs but to be seen; But seen too oft, familiar with her face, We first endure, then pity, then embrace." When you enter the sequestered valleys, and approach... | |
| 1836 - 240 sivua
...to vice is here often strikingly exemplified : — Vice is a monster of so 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.* There are two remarks however which I must make by way of qualification... | |
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