 Favours to none, to all she smiles extends ; Oft she rejects, but never once offends. Bright as the sun, her eyes the gazers strike, And like the sun, they shine on all alike. Yet graceful ease, and sweetness void of pride, Might hide her faults if belles...  The Works of Alexander Pope: Poetry - Σελίδα 153των Alexander Pope - 1871Πλήρης προβολή - Σχετικά με αυτό το βιβλίο
 | Robert Isaac Wilberforce, Samuel Wilberforce - 1838 - 448 σελίδες
...him." " I am reading much ; thinking too little." "My dear Muncaster," he wrote from Perry Mead,84 " ' If to her share some female errors fall, Look on her face, and you '11 forget them all/ This was the effect of beauty ; and that of friendship is somewhat similar.... | |
 | Robert Isaac Wilberforce - 1838 - 892 σελίδες
...him." " I am reading much ; thinking too little." "My dear Muncaster," he wrote from Perry Mead,25 f' ' If to her share some female errors fall, Look on her face, and you '11 forget them all.' This was the effect of beauty ; and that of friendship is somewhat similar.... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1839 - 510 σελίδες
...strike, And like the sun, they shine on all alike. Yet graceful ease, and sweetness void of pride, Might hide her faults, if belles had faults to hide...'em all. This nymph, to the destruction of mankind, Nourish'd two Locks, which graceful hung behind I n equal curls, and well conspired to deck With shining... | |
 | John Halperin - 1975 - 352 σελίδες
...strike, And, like the Sun, they shine on all alike. Yet graceful Ease, and Sweetness void of Pride, Might hide her Faults, if Belles had Faults to hide:...fall, Look on her Face, and you'll forget 'em all. (n, 10-18) 'The tone is ironical,' as Cleanth Brooks reminds us, 'but the irony is not that of a narrow... | |
 | William Makepeace Thackeray - 1927 - 778 σελίδες
...rustle. To glance at either of those bewitching portraits is to vow with the little Queen Anne's man : ' If to her share some female errors fall Look on her face and you'll forget them all.' Pure as snow, cold as ice, Siddons herself does not escape calumny. Labelled ' very scarce... | |
 | Valerie Rumbold - 1989 - 342 σελίδες
...dazzling compliments reveal damaging possibilities: Yet graceful Ease, and Sweetness void of Pride, Might hide her Faults, if Belles had Faults to hide: If to her share some Female Errors falf, Look on her Face, and you'll forgive 'em alL (Rape of the Lacke, I3I) This is the kind of crux... | |
 | Ulrich Broich - 1990 - 252 σελίδες
...unfix'd as those: Favours to none, to all she Smiles extends, Oft she rejects, but never once offends. If to her share some Female Errors fall, Look on her Face, and you'll forget 'em all. Smooth flow the Waves, the Zephyrs gently play, Belinda smil'd, and all the World was gay.51 The two... | |
 | Claude Julien Rawson - 2000 - 332 σελίδες
...scribblers the kind of courtly turn which Pope excelled at simultaneously executing and subverting: 'If to her share some Female Errors fall,) Look on her Face, and you'll forget 'em all.' The irony disappears from Richardson's use of the formula at precisely the time when good poets were... | |
 | Carl R. Woodring, James Shapiro - 1995 - 936 σελίδες
...strike. And, like the sun, they shine on all alike. Yet graceful ease, and sweetness void of pride, Might hide her faults, if belles had faults to hide:...curls, and well conspired to deck With shining ringlets her smooth ivory neck. Love in these labyrinths his slaves detains, And mighty hearts are held in slender... | |
 | James E. Gill - 1995 - 468 σελίδες
...but particularly resonant change in the last line: Yet graceful Ease, and Sweetness void of Pride, Might hide her Faults, if Belles had Faults to hide:...some Female Errors fall, Look on her Face, and you'll forgive 'em all. (1712, 1.31-34) This is changed to "Look on her Face, and you'll forget 'em all" (1714,... | |
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