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. Broome, Pope, Pitt, Thomson - Pagina 222a cura di - 1810Visualizzazione completa - Informazioni su questo libro
| Alexander Pope - 1824 - 80 pagine
...frightful mien, s, to be hated, needs but to be seen ; et seen too oft, familiar with her face, ^ e first endure, then pity, then embrace. 220 But where th'...Ask Where's the North ? at York, 'tis on the Tweed : Iu Scotland, at the Orcades ; and there, At Greenland, Zembla, or the Lord knows where. No creature... | |
| William Hazlitt - 1824 - 1062 pagine
...white ? Ask your own heart, and nothing is so plain ; 'Tie to mistake them, costs the time and pam. alth ! with all thy store, How dar'st thou let one...Shall half the new-built churches round thee fall We first endure, then pity, then embrace. Bnt where th' extreme of vice, was ne'er agreed : Ask where's... | |
| Jesse Torrey - 1824 - 308 pagine
...white? Ask your own heart, and nothing is so plain; 'Tis to mistake them, costs the time and pain. 21 Vice is a monster of so frightful mien, As, to be...be seen ; Yet seen too oft, familiar with her face, We first endure, then pity, then embrace. But where th' extreme of vice, was ne'er agreed ; Ask where's... | |
| Thomas Brown - 1824 - 490 pagine
...can be more just, than the picture of this sad progress, described in the well known lines of Pope: " Vice is a monster of so frightful mien, As, to be...seen ; Yet, seen too oft, familiar with her face, We first enHur*, then pity, then embrace. "• In the slow progress of some insidious disease, which... | |
| Samuel Johnson - 1825 - 500 pagine
...appearance, Plutarch had in his hands all the plays of Aristophanes, which were at least fifty in number. ' Vice is a monster of so frightful mien, As, to be...be seen ; Yet seen too oft, familiar with her face, We first endure, then pity, then embrace. Pope's Essay on Man, ii. 217. In these he saw more licentiousness... | |
| Samuel Johnson - 1825 - 504 pagine
...appearance, Plutarch had in his hands all the plays of Aristophanes, which were at least fifty in number. 1 Vice is a monster of so frightful mien, As, to be...be seen , Yet seen too oft, familiar with her face, We first endure, then pity, then embrace. Pope's Essay on Man, ii. 217. Fn these he saw more licentiousness... | |
| Samuel Johnson - 1825 - 504 pagine
...appearance, Plutarch had in his hands all the plays of Aristophanes, which were at least fifty in number. r Vice is a monster of so frightful mien, As, to be...be seen ; Yet seen too oft, familiar with her face, We first endure, then pity, then embrace. Pope's Essay on Man, ii. 217. I n these he saw more licentiousness... | |
| Samuel Johnson - 1825 - 502 pagine
...appearance, Plutarch had in his hands all the plays of Aristophanes, which were at least fifty in number. ' Vice is a monster of so frightful mien, As, to be...be seen . Yet seen too oft, familiar with her face, We first endure, then pity, then embrace. Pope's Essay on Man, ii. 217. In these he saw more licentiousness... | |
| William Hazlitt - 1825 - 600 pagine
...? Ask your own heart, and nothing is so plain ; 'Tis to mistake them, eosts the time and pain. Viee <1= We first endure, then pity, then embraee. But where th' extreme of viee was ne'er agreed : Ask where's... | |
| Charles M. Ingersoll - 1825 - 298 pagine
...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 hated,...to be seen : * Yet seen too oft, familiar with her facf , We first endure, then pity, then embrace. If nothing more than purpose in thy power, Thy purpose... | |
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