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... Poetical Works - Page 71by Alexander Pope - 1808Full view - About this book
| George Croly - English poetry - 1850 - 442 pages
...her eyes, and as unfixed as those : Favours to none, to all she smiles extends : Oft she rejects, but never once offends. Bright as the sun, her eyes the...sweetness void of pride, Might hide her faults, if belles had faults to hide : If to her share some female errors fall, Look on her face, and you'll forget them... | |
| Leigh Hunt - English poetry - 1851 - 282 pages
...— and as unfix'd as those ; Favors to none — to all she smiles extends, Oft she rejects — but never once offends ; Bright as the sun — her eyes...void of pride, Might hide her faults — if belles had faults to hide ; If to her share — some female errors fall, Look on her face — and you'll forget... | |
| Alexander Pope - English poetry - 1851 - 348 pages
...those : Favours to- naae,..ta .all she smilgsextends ; Oft she rejects, but never once offencfsT j Bright as the sun, her eyes the gazers strike, / And,...sweetness void of pride. Might hide her faults, if belles had faults to hide : i If to her share some female errors fall, /p>ok on her face, and you'll forget... | |
| Abraham Mills - English literature - 1851 - 616 pages
...she smiles extends; Ofl she rejects, hut never once offends. Bright as the sun, her eyes the gazer strike, And, like the sun, they shine on all alike....sweetness void of pride, Might hide her faults, if belles had faults to hide; If to her share some female errors fall, Look on her face and yon '11 forget them... | |
| Fortune-telling - 1851 - 84 pages
...Devoted, anxious, generous, void of guile, With her whole heart's welcome in her smile. Mrs. Norton. 4. Bright as the sun her eyes the gazers strike, And like the sun they shine on all alike. Pope. 5. Unfee'd the calls- of nature she obeys, Not led by profit, nor allured by praise. Craiibe.... | |
| Anna Atkins - 1852 - 912 pages
...her eyes, and as unfix'd as those : Favours to none, to all she smiles extends ; Oft she rejects, but never once offends ; Bright as the sun, her eyes the...sweetness void of pride, Might hide her faults, if belles had faults to hide." POPE. MARY D'ARC had always found Brighton charming from the first moment that... | |
| English poetry - 1852 - 874 pages
...her eyes, and as unfix'd as those : Favors to none, to all she smiles extends ; Oft she rejects, but here can I forget the generous band,* Who, touch'd...thousand nameless ills, That one incessant struggle had faults to hide : If to her share some female errors fall. Look on her face, and you 'lI forget... | |
| Miss Macauley (Elizabeth Wright) - 1852 - 444 pages
...eyes, and as unfixed as those— Favours to none, to all she smiles extends — Oft she rejects, but never once offends. Bright as the sun, her eyes the...strike, And, like the sun, they shine on all alike. If to her share some female errors fall, Look in her face — and you'll forget them all.*** Thus she... | |
| Samuel Bailey - Calendar reform - 1852 - 328 pages
...description of Belinda in Pope's Rape of the Lock, although it is unquestionably witty : — " Bright like the sun her eyes the gazers strike, And like the sun they shine on all alike." Nor perhaps did any one ever laugh at that passage in the Dunciad, where the satirist is speaking of... | |
| William Spalding - English language - 1853 - 446 pages
...her eyes, and as unfix'd as those : Favours to none, to all she smiles extends : Oft she rejects, but never once offends. Bright as the sun, her eyes the...sweetness void of pride, Might hide her faults, if belles had faults to hide. If to her share some female errors fall, Look on her face, and you'll forget them... | |
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