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A Rhetorical Grammar: In which the Common Improprieties in Reading and ... - Page 168
by John Walker - 1823 - 373 pages
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The Works of Alexander Pope: Moral essays

Alexander Pope - 1757 - 234 pages
...a Whore! who ftarts not at the name, In all the Inns cf Court or Drury-lana 1 39 ESSAYONMAN. Er.II. But where th' Extreme of Vice, was ne'er agreed : Ask where's the North? at York, 'tis on the Tweed ; In Scotland, at the Orcades ; and there, At Greenland, Zernble, or the Lord knows where. No creature...
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Essai sur l'homme: poëme philosophique par Alexandre Pope, en cinq langues ...

Alexander Pope - 1762 - 370 pages
...be feen ; Yet feen too oft, familiar with her face, We firft endure , then pity, then embrace. 220 But where th' Extreme of Vice, was ne'er agreed: Ask 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. No creature...
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Der Mensch, ein philosophisches Gedicht

Alexander Pope - 1772 - 374 pages
...be feen ; Yet feen too oft , familiar with her face , "We firft endure, then pity, then embrace. 220 But where th" Extreme of Vice , was ne'er agreed :...Ask where's the North? at York, 'tis on the Tweed; In Scotland , at the Orcades ; and there , At Greenland, Zembla, or the Lnrd knows where. No creature...
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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 - 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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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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An essay on man. Cornish ed

Alexander Pope - 1798 - 140 pages
...white ? Ask your own heart, and nothing is so plain ; 'Tis to mistake them costs the time and pain. Vice is a monster of so frightful mien, As, to be hated, needs but to be seen; Tet seen too oft, familiar with her face, We first endure, then pity, then embrace. But...
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A Rhetorical Grammar: In which the Common Improprieties in Reading and ...

John Walker - 1801 - 424 pages
...tone ef voice than the same slide in the last line of the couplet. is a monster of so frightful As .to be hated needs but to be seen; Yet seen too oft, familiar...We first endure, then pity, then embrace. But where the extreme of vice was ne'er agreed; Ask where's the North, at York 'tis on the Tweed : No creature...
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The Political Writings of John Dickinson, Esquire: The speech of John ...

John Dickinson - 1801 - 468 pages
...applicable to vice in politics, as to vice in ethics. " Vice is a monster of so horrid mien, *' As to be hated, needs but to be seen ; ** Yet seen too oft, familiar with her face, " We first endure, then/tfVjy, then embrace.'.' When an act injurious to freedom has been once done, and the people bear...
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