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" 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. "
Familiar Quotations: A Collection of Passages, Phrases, and Proverbs Traced ... - Página 315
por John Bartlett - 1891 - 1158 páginas
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Branch Rickey: Baseball's Ferocious Gentleman

Lee Lowenfish - 2007 - 716 páginas
...overjoyed. He cited to his associates one of his favorite passages from Alexander Pope's "Essay on Man": Vice is a monster of so frightful mien As to be hated,...seen too oft, familiar with her face We first endure, then pity, then embrace.8 As Rickey interpreted the development, the players had endured Robinson's...
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Thinking about Terrorism: The Threat to Civil Liberties in Times of National ...

Michael E. Tigar - 2007 - 248 páginas
...I use the word "mien" in the context of this trial as a kind of homage to Alexander Pope who wrote: Vice is a monster of so frightful mien, As to be hated...too oft, familiar with her face, We first endure, then pity, then embrace. 54. Military detachment of the Milice, police of the Vichy regime. 55. A local...
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A History of Sin: Its Evolution to Today and Beyond

John Portmann - 2007 - 266 páginas
...breeds sin; the taste of vice keeps inviting us back. As Alexander Pope once wrote in the Essays on Man, Vice is a monster of so frightful mien, As to be hated...too oft, familiar with her face, We first endure, then pity, then embrace. Repetition leads to perverse inclinations. Before we know it, we've fallen...
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Classics of American Political and Constitutional Thought

Scott J. Hammond, Kevin R. Hardwick, Howard Leslie Lubert - 2007 - 1236 páginas
...Pope as applicable to vice in politics, as to vice in ethicsVice is a monster of so horrid mien, As to line drawn through the southerly bend or extreme of Lake M then pity, then embrace. 14. "Opinion is of two kinds, viz., opinion of INTEREST, and opinion of RIGHT....
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