...set a guard upon his own lips — a guard, alas ! too soon broken through. So true is it that — " Vice is a monster of such hideous mien, As to be hated...needs but to be seen ; But, seen too oft, familiar grows her face : We first endure, then pity, then embrace." One day a few of the older boys of the...

...diminish, particularly in young minds, the abhorrence and detestation they would otherwise excite. " Vice is a monster of such hideous mien, As, to be hated, needs but to be seen — Yet, seen too oft, familiar with its face, We first endure, then pity, then embrace."...

...the triumph of vanity. VOL. II. K CHAP. CHAP. XXXII. Vice is a monster of such hideous mein, As to be hated needs but to be seen, But seen too oft familiar grows her face, We first endure, then pity, then embrace. POPE. PERHAPS vice is never more certain...

...know this failing of humanity ; and, therefore, when, vice was to be pourtrayed, it stalked forth * A monster of such hideous mien, As, to be hated, needs but to be seen ;' and when virtue was brought on the stage, she appeared in pure white muslin and all sorts...

...disquiet their peaceful dreams. CHAPTER XXI. THE PORGEK. " Vice ia a monster of so foul a mien As to be hated, needs but to be seen ; But seen too oft, familiar with the face, We first endure, then pity, then embrace." " I AM sure there M something the matter, George,"...

...human mind arrives at enormity in guilt by a slow and gradual advance. 'f Nemo repentefuit turpissimus. Vice is a monster of such hideous 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 —...

...guilt and danger of actually committing it vanish. " Vice is a monster of such hideous mien, A» to be hated, needs but to be seen ; But seen too oft, familiar with its face, We first begin to pity, then embrace." 4. Excuses are invented for the indulgence of the...

...mind arrives at enormity in guilt by a slow and gradual advance — Nemo repentefuit turpissimui — Vice is a monster of such hideous 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—...

...malig. nity, how can you, with fixed purpose, rise above its influence? It has been finely said, that Vice is a monster of such hideous mien As, to be hated, needs bat to be seen. But can you see the true character of this moral monster without viewing it attentively?...

...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...