 | 1818
...unmasked, excite more disgust : and, certainly, we agree with Mrs. Beverley in this respect, for " Vice is a monster of such frightful mien, " As, to be hated, needs but to be seen." FOREIGN LITERATURE. A Voyage to Greenland, By Mean. Gietcke and EgeHe-Saabye.— Copenhagen.... | |
 | 1890
...piety cannot be amalgamated without destroying the purity of the latter and its power of reformation : Vice is a monster of such frightful mien As to be hated needs but to be seen ; Yet seen too oft, familiar with his face, We first endure, then pity, then embrace. Be... | |
 | 1885
...impressions, that even a wrong soon ceases to be heeded as a wrong, as Pope has most tartly said: " Vice is a monster of such frightful mien As to be hated, needs but to be seen; Yet seen too oft, familiar with her face, We first endorse, then pity, then embrace;" and... | |
 | HENRY CLEVELAND - 1866
...must tell you so. Discriminate, if you please, between yourselves and the thing spoken of — " Yice is a monster of such frightful mien As, to be hated, needs but to be seen." It is to exhibit and hold up even to yourselves the great evils and dangers to be apprehended... | |
 | 1889
...that called Obscure History. Judging from the abuse showered upon him we should conceive him to be " a monster of such frightful mien as to be hated, needs but to be seen ;" but let us hold him fast in spite of his struggles and see if he be as evil as he looks.... | |
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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. 
