| John Monk (of Chester, England.) - Elections - 1810 - 118 pages
...colour!' . Here I confess he is at home, it is a subject suited to his capacity, for "Vice is a monster of such hideous mien, That, to be hated, needs but to be seen ;" and being so well versed himself both in the theory and practice, and having such an ample... | |
| English literature - 1833 - 554 pages
...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,... | |
| Poets, English - 1825 - 454 pages
...most effectual check to vice ; and of that opinion was Pope when he said : — " Vice is an object of such hideous mien, That to be hated needs but to be seen." Once for all, — we positively deny that Lord Byron's works are more immoral than many of those... | |
| Congregational churches - 1830 - 684 pages
...the full reality, though we might previously have regarded it with abhoirence. " Vice is a creature of such hideous mien, That to be hated needs but to be seen ; ('•in seen too oft, familiar with her face, We first endure, then pity, then embrace." It... | |
| Allan Cunningham - Architects - 1832 - 358 pages
...observed, that the town, respecting the first work, thought with the poet, — " Vice is a monster of such hideous mien That to be hated needs but to be seen," — and came in crowds to look and loathe, and walk home wiser and amended : but, with regard... | |
| Methodist Church - 1833 - 516 pages
...or require refutation, and we may say after all he has ever written on this topic, ' It is a monster of such hideous mien, That to be hated, needs but to be seen.' We have thus devoted a much larger space to this mischievous production than we designed, but... | |
| George Gordon N. Byron (6th baron.) - 1834 - 188 pages
...experience, invariably produce disgust ; as I believe, with my favourite poet, that " Vice i« 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,... | |
| English literature - 1837 - 612 pages
...orders " and voluminous " free list," no wonder they complain of bankruptcy ; for " Vice is a monster of such hideous mien, That, to be hated, needs but to be seen." Whenever a moral man (and morality is not yet so dead in the minds of Englishmen as the managers... | |
| 1837 - 646 pages
...single verbal alteration, the lines of the poet might be applied to him : — " Schism is a monster of such hideous mien, That to be hated needs but to be seen, Yet seen too oft, familiar with her face, We first endure, then pity, then embrace." Wesley hesitated... | |
| William B. English - City and town life - 1843 - 98 pages
...guard againsfcthe wolf in sheep's clothing, who is here seen in all his deformity. " Vice is a monster of such hideous mien, That to be hated, needs but to be seen." Here the monster is depicted in true colors ; let the parent and the guardian exhibit its hideous... | |
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