Letter 11
“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 pity, then embrace.”
“Infelix vates.”A direful foreteller of future calamities.
John Dickinson (1732–1808)
“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 pity, then embrace.”
“Infelix vates.”A direful foreteller of future calamities.