 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
 | Thomas Campbell - English poetry - 1853 - 838 pages
...unfîx'd as those : Favours to none, to all she smiles extends ; Oft she rejects, but never once oflends. Bright as the sun, her eyes the gazers strike, And,...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... | |
 | John Halperin - Literary Criticism - 1975 - 352 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 'em... | |
 | Valerie Rumbold - Biography & Autobiography - 1989 - 342 pages
...unequivocal affirmation. When challenged, even the most 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... | |
 | Carl R. Woodring, James Shapiro - Literary Criticism - 1995 - 936 pages
...eyes, and as unfixed as those: 10 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 'em... | |
 | Steven H. Gale - English wit and humor - 1996 - 690 pages
...lovers, just at twelve, awake" (1.16l and especially lines which provide a satirical view of women: "Yet graceful ease and sweetness void of pride / Might hide her faults, if Belles had faults / to hide" (2.1516l. Characteristic, too, are lines which provide a humorous anticlimax:... | |
 | James E. Gill - English literature - 1995 - 468 pages
...specifically tied to a fault of Pride. There is a small 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: If to her share some Female Errors fall, Look on her Face, and you'll forgive 'em... | |
 | Stephen Adams - Poetry - 1997 - 260 pages
...mobilizing public sentiment.8 In poetry, as in prose, antimetabole often appears with witty effect: Yet graceful ease, and sweetness void of pride, Might hide her faults, if Belles had faults to hide. But the same figure informs the solemn culmination of Coleridge's "Frost at Midnight":... | |
 | Alexander Pope - Poetry - 1998 - 260 pages
...eyes, and as unfixed as those: 10 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 'em... | |
 | Tita Chico - Literary Criticism - 2005 - 316 pages
...the symbol of Belinda's powerful beauty, those "bright Locks" (2.29), the poet addresses the reader: 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 fall, Look on her Face, and you'll forget 'em... | |
 | 蘇其康 - English literature - 2007 - 392 pages
...柔造作的女性， 她招蜂引蝶卻又對男士們表現得欲拒還迎 Favors to none, to all she smiles extends; Bright as the sun, her eyes the gazers strike, And, like the sun, they shine on all alike. (2.11 -14) 此為頗昔對上流社會不事生產女性的嘲諷。 由此可窺見頗普 對女性所持有的偏見... | |
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