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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. "
The Works of Alexander Pope: Poetry - Page 393
by Alexander Pope - 1871
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A Critical and philosophical Commentay on Mr. Pope's Essay on Man. In which ...

William Warburton - 1742 - 220 pages
...Extreme : But Mr. POP £'s E ss AY o N MAN. 97 But where th'Extreme of Vice was ne'er agreed : Afk where's the North ? at York 'tis on the Tweed, In Scotland, at the Orcadcs ; and there At Greenland, Zcmbla, or the Lord knows where. For, from the Extreme of Vice's...
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Essai sur l'homme: poëme philosophique par Alexandre Pope, en cinq langues ...

Alexander Pope - 1772 - 376 pages
...be feen ; Yet feen too oft , familiar with her face , We firft endure, then pity, then embrace, 2zo But where th' Extreme of Vice , was ne'er agreed : Ask Where's the North? at York, 'tis on the T weed; In Scotland , at the Orcades ; and there , At Greenland, Zembla, or the Lord knows where. No...
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Bell's Edition, Volumes 75-76

John Bell - English poetry - 1796 - 524 pages
...Ask your own heart, and nothing is so plain ; 3i'5 'Tis to mistake them, costs the time and pain. V. 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. 210 But where the extremes of vice was ne'er agreed : Ask Where's the north...
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Moral essays, satires, &c

Alexander Pope - 1777 - 262 pages
...frightful mien, As, to be hated, needs but to be feen ; Yet feen too oft, familiar with her face, We firft endure, then pity, then embrace. But where th' Extreme of vice, was ne'er agreed r Alk where'* the North ? at York, 'tis on the Tweed g In Scotland, at the Oreades ; and there, At...
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Mentoria, Or, The Young Ladies Instructor: In Familiar Conversations on ...

Ann Murry - Conduct of life - 1778 - 246 pages
...one word, is applicable to my prefent purpofe. But where th' extreme of cold was ne'er agreed, Afk where's the North ? At York, 'tis on the Tweed; In Scotland at the Orcades, and there At Greenland, Zembia, or the Lord knows where. No creature owns it in the firft degree, But thinks his neighbour...
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The Works of the English Poets: Pope

Samuel Johnson - English poetry - 1779 - 414 pages
...endure, then pity, then embrace. no Bat where th' Extreme of Vice, was ne'er agreed : Aflc where 's the North ? at York, 'tis on the Tweed ; In Scotland, at the Orcades ; and there, At Greenland, Zemhla, or the Lord knows where. No creature owns it in the firft degree, 215 But thinks his neighbour...
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A Tour Through Sicily and Malta: In a Series of Letters to William ..., Volume 2

Patrick Brydone - Malta - 1780 - 248 pages
...female beauty : they change in every climate ; and the criterion is no where to be found. " Afic wbere's the North ? — at York, 'tis on the Tweed, " In Scotland at the Orcades, and there,— " At Nova Zembla, or the Lord knows where." No two nations, perhaps no two men, have affixed precifely the...
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Edinburgh Fugitive Pieces

William Creech - English literature - 1791 - 318 pages
...-whztfanaticifm means ? and, upon examination, it will be found to refemble Pope's defcription of the north. Aflc where's the north ?— At York, 'tis on the Tweed...Scotland, at the Orcades ; — and there, At Greenland, Zcmbla, or the Lord knows where. EVERY perfon, according to his own fyftem of indulgence, terms the...
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Edinburgh Fugitive Pieces

William Creech - Edinburgh (Scotland) - 1791 - 346 pages
...fanaticifm means ? and, upon examination, it will be found to referable Pope's defcription of the north. Aft where's the north ?—At York, 'tis on the Tweed ;— In Scotland, at the Orcades;—and there, At Greenland, Zembla, or the Lord knows where. EVERY perfon, according to his...
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Poems, Moral, Elegant and Pathetic: Vis. Essay on Man

1796 - 246 pages
...frightful mien, As, to be hated, needs but to be feen : Yet feen too oft, familial with her face, We firft endure, then pity, then embrace. But where th' extreme of vice, was ne'er agreed : Afk where's the north ? at York, 'tis on the Tweed j In Scotland, at the Orcades; and there, At Greenland,...
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