...pest to society as those punishable persons, who go about committing actual mischief. Pope says, " Vice is a monster of so frightful mien, As to be hated, needs but to be seen." There is however a possibility so to varnish the frightfulness of vice, that she shall...

...Ask your own heart, and nothing is so plain ; Tis to mistake them, costs the time and pain." NOTES. 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. 220...

...of speculation, which leads men so foolishly to conclude, that there is neither vice nor virtue. 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. 220...

...nor in fact, am 1 certain, that mere misgiving is not here flowing from my pen. It may be true that " Vice is a monster of so frightful mien, " As to be hated needs but to be seen .•" But we cannot with similar reliance upon the word of a poet, trust Astronomical monuments to the public...

...to it, but in a higher tone of voice than the same slide in the last line of the couplet. EXAMPLE. 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. But...

...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, needs but to be seen : "Vet se«n too oft, familiar with her face, We first endure, then pity, then embrace....

...vice, make a person lose shame in committing it. " Vice is a monster of such 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. " Quando fueres yunque, sufre como yunque; quando...

...peace, my lot i 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, needs hut to be seen: Yet seen too oft, familiar with her face, We first endure, then pity, then embrace....

...caught the poet's idea, that — " Vice is a monster of such frightful mien, " As to be hated, need but to be seen ; " But, seen too oft, familiar with her face, " We first endure, then pity, then embrace." He caught the idea, and knew how to turn it to advantage. — He knew very...

...? Ask your own heart, and nothing is so plain ; 215 'Tis to mistake them, costs the time and pain. Vice is a monster of so frightful mien, As, to be hated, needs but to be seen ; COMMENTARY. one another insensibly in a well-wrought picture, make the harmony and spirit...