| Richard John Neuhaus - 1986 - 300 sivua
...utterly abhorrent. In light of today's widespread tolerance of both, the words of Pope are pertinent: Vice is a monster of so frightful mien, As to be hated needs but to be seen; Yet seen too oft, familiar with her face, We first endure, then pity, then embrace. The... | |
| Linda Simon - 1991 - 452 sivua
...break: she could not bear a rival. And Pope's lines, which he had used in "The Sea Change," made sense : Vice is a monster of so frightful mien, As to be hated needs but to be seen; Yet seen too oft, familiar with her face, We first endure, then pity, then embrace.37 Alice,... | |
| Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1989 - 450 sivua
...let us pray to God that he will deliver us from the evil that is in the world for which we are not 8. "Vice is a monster of so frightful mien, / As, to be hated, needs but to be seen." Alexander Pope, Essay on Man, II, 117-18. 9. "To one who had asked him on some occasion,... | |
| Stephen R. Covey - 1992 - 340 sivua
...influence. To emphasize my point, I even shared Alexander Pope's well-known statement concerning vice: Vice is a monster of so frightful mien, As to be hated needs but to be seen; Yet seen too oft, familiar with her face, We first endure, then pity, then embrace. Our... | |
| Martha Finley - 1994 - 342 sivua
...so much knowledge, and possessed sufficient talent for such an undertaking. CHAPTER TWENTY-FIRST. w Vice is a monster of so frightful mien, As to be hated needs but to be seen ; Yet seen too oft, familiar with her face, We first endure, then pity, then embrace." —... | |
| 1872 - 974 sivua
...undertook the defence of the system which they had before condemned. In the language of Pope :— " Vice is a monster of so frightful mien, " As to be hated needs but to be seen ; " Yet, seen too oft, familiar with her face, " We first endure, then pity, then embrace."... | |
| Stephen R. Covey - 1998 - 406 sivua
...zone — even though they're literally killing us and our families. In the words of Alexander Pope: Vice is a monster of so frightful mien, As to be hated needs but to be seen; Yet seen too oft, familiar with her face, We first endure, then pity, then embrace.1''... | |
| Josie Washburn - 1997 - 376 sivua
...number of criminal assaults, houses of that character are greater in proportion. "Evil begets evil." "Vice is a monster of so frightful mien, As to be hated, needs but to be seen ; Yet seen too oft, familiar with her face, We first endure, then pity, then embrace." The... | |
| Connie Robertson - 1998 - 686 sivua
...Fixed like a plant on his peculiar spot, To draw nutritlon, propagate, and rot. 8901 An Essay on Man ns, incontestably, are the sunshine: to be seen; Yet seen too oft, familiar with her face. We first endure, then pity, then embrace. 8902... | |
| Larry P. Gross, James D. Woods - 1999 - 690 sivua
...society is, we fear, progressing precisely in the manner given poetic expression by Alexander Pope: Vice is a monster of so frightful mien, As to be hated needs but to be seen; Yet seen too oft, familiar with her face, We first endure, then pity, then embrace. To... | |
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