| David L. Larsen - 644 páginas
...See my review of Greidanus in Trinity Journal, fall 1990. 237-39. 7.2.3 POPE, GIANT OF THE AUGUSTANS 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. — Alexander Pope Essay on Man, 1.217 Few poets are so quotable as Alexander... | |
| Valerie Rohy - 2000 - 212 páginas
...Doubleday, Page, 1 940), 440-41. 49. The passage Phil attempts to quote from Pope's Essay on Man reads: 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. See Alexander Pope, The Poems of Alexander Pope, ed. John Butt (New York:... | |
| John R. Rice - 2000 - 228 páginas
...temptation if you would be victorious. David looked too long, and he lost! Pope says, in his 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 and then pity, and then embrace. Oh, do not dally with sin if you would escape itl But I must emphasize... | |
| Joseph Twadell Shipley - 2001 - 688 páginas
...become mithridatized at last." In his Essay on Man, Alexander Pope pictures this process more vividly: 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. Greek forms from the root sta include Anastasius; apostle, apostate; apostasy,... | |
| Fredric V. Bogel - 2001 - 280 páginas
...that it disguises itself. Pope himself says something like this in An Essay on Man when he announces, "Vice is a monster of so frightful mien, / As, to be hated, needs but to be seen" (2.217-18). But this couplet, with its optimistic certainty, immediately follows a discussion... | |
| Bruce K. Waltke - 2002 - 200 páginas
...become dulled to the pain, and evil now rules the day. Alexander Pope expressed the truth this way: 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. Before the 19605 in North America, homosexuality was of frightful mien as... | |
| Mike Thompson - 2002 - 200 páginas
...the worst, and thus validate the warning of English poet/philosopher Alexander Pope: Vice is a matter of so frightful mien, As to be hated needs but to...too oft, familiar with her face, We first endure, then pity, then embrace. WHAT'S the DIFFERENCE? Doting Big Brothers and Sisters or Dating Big Brothers... | |
| Edward W.L. Smith - 2010 - 202 páginas
...morality poem, taken from Alexander Pope's An Essay on Man II, to point in the direction of an answer. 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 [Ward edition, 1930, p. 206]. As I ponder this quatrain, the levels of meaning... | |
| Mike Thompson - 2003 - 126 páginas
...generally reacts when repeatedly exposed to evil, wicked or immoral human behavior: Vice is a matter of so frightful mien, As to be hated needs but to...too oft, familiar with her face, We first endure, then pity, then embrace. In recent years, too many Americans and their leaders cheerfully have hustled... | |
| Terry Castle - 2003 - 1150 páginas
...Yet the story is a strangely vulnerable one. The lines of poetry misquoted by the humiliated hero — "Vice is a monster of so frightful mien, / As, to be hated, needs but to be seen" — are from Alexander Pope's Essay on Man 0733)FURTHER READING: Ernest Hemingway, The... | |
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