Vice is a monster of so frightful mien,
As to be hated needs but to be seen.
Pope: Essay on Man, epistle ii. line 217.
[269:4] Quos Deus vult perdere prius dementat (Whom God wishes to destroy he first deprives of reason). The author of this saying is unknown. Barnes erroneously ascribes it to Euripides.
[269:5] And fools who came to scoff remain'd to pray.—Goldsmith: The Deserted Village, line 180.
Of manners gentle, of affections mild,
In wit a man, simplicity a child.
Pope: Epitaph on Gay.