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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. "
Wisdom of the Wise: Pithy and Pointed Sayings of the Best Authors - Page 79
by Caroline Louisa Hunt - 1891 - 95 pages
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Conversations of Lord Byron with the Countess of Blessington

Marguerite Countess of Blessington - 1850 - 432 pages
...can judge by experience, invariably produce disgust, as I believe, with my favourite poet, that— Vice is a monster of such hideous mien, That, to be hated, needs but to be seen. But he who has known it can never truly describe woman as she ought to be described ; and, therefore, a...
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The Christian reformer; or, Unitarian magazine and review [ed. by ..., Volume 6

Robert Aspland - 1850 - 794 pages
...is torn away, and the naked deformity of the system is fully disclosed. Like vice, the creature is ' of such hideous mien, that, to be hated, needs but to be seen.' It may writhe with rage, glare with malignity, and scream with revenge ; but its death-throes...
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The Ladies' Companion

Women's periodicals, English - 1853 - 386 pages
...most odious 'Essays on the Drama. light. The Dean thought, with his friend Pope— " Vice in a moneter of such hideous mien , That to be hated needs but to be seen." Other*, however, and amongst them Dr. Herring, Archbishop of Canterbury, censured it as giving...
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The Eclectic review. vol. 1-New [8th]

1850 - 814 pages
...is torn away, and the naked deformity of the system is fully disclosed. Like vice, the creature is ' of such hideous mien, that, to be hated, needs but to be seen.' It may writhe with rage, glare with malignity, and scream with revenge ; but its death-throes...
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Journal of Correspondence and Conversations Between Lord Byron and the ...

Marguerite Countess of Blessington - 1851 - 254 pages
...can judge by experience, invariably produce disgust, as I believe, with my favorite poet, that — Vice is a monster of such hideous mien, That, to be hated, needs but to be seen. But he who has known it can never truly describe woman as she ought to be described ; and, therefore, a...
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Six Years in a Georgia Prison: Narrative of Lewis W. Paine, who Suffered ...

Lewis W. Paine - Fugitive slaves - 1851 - 208 pages
...once opposed it, than the following lines of Pope : " 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." Under that state of things can the Slaveholder get the same view of the subject...
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The workman's testimony to the sabbath: 3 essays

John Allan Quinton - 1851 - 210 pages
...revealed by Sabbath desecrations, or encroachments of unnecessary labour : " Vice is a monster, of so hideous mien, That to be hated, needs but to be seen ; But seen too oft, that grown familiar with its face We first endure, then pity, then embrace." Take a Scotchman from...
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The Three Great Temptations of Young Men: With Several Lectures Addressed to ...

Samuel Ware Fisher - Young men - 1852 - 394 pages
...swallow the gilded pill of vice. Remember what the poet has said: " Vice is a monster of such frightful mien, That to be hated needs but to be seen; But seen...too oft, familiar with her face, We first endure, then pity, then embrace." Listen to the voice of your God : " Resist the Devil and he will flee from...
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A Laconic Manual and Brief Remarker: Containing Over a Thousand Subjects ...

Charles Simmons - Aphorisms and apothegms - 1852 - 564 pages
...life, That gives it all its flavor. 972. VICE. Pope. Vice is a monster of so 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. Webster, D. Some persons lose their abhorrence of crime, in their admiration...
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The cruet stand, select pieces of prose and poetry, Volume 2

C. Gough - 1853 - 414 pages
...improved or impaired. Pope says truly — Vice is a monster of so frightful mien, As, to be dreaded, needs but to be seen ; But seen too oft, familiar with her face, We first endure, then pity, then embrace. It is almost unnecessary to remark, that this fact will enable us to estimate...
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