 | Alexander Pope - 1856 - 512 pages
...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 had faults to hide* If to her share some female errors fall, Look on her face, and you'll forget them all. This nymph, to the destruction... | |
 | Aphorisms and apothegms - 1856 - 570 pages
...troubled sea, Brightening the storm it cannot calm. ^eaUtg,— Pope. VET 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 all. SSeaUtg, — Shakspeare.... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1856 - 352 pages
...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 had faults to hide : VARIATIONS. VEB. 4. From hence the poem continues, in the first edition, to rer. 46 . The rot the... | |
 | Alexander Pope, George Gilfillan - 1856 - 356 pages
...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 had faults to hide : TARIATIONS. VEB. 4. From hence the poem continues, in the first edition, to ver. 4C :— The rest... | |
 | Sarah Josepha Buell Hale - Quotations, English - 1856 - 624 pages
...eye, and palls upon the sense. Addison's Cato. Yet graeeful ease, and sweetness void of pride, Mi-fht hide her faults, if belles had faults to hide ; If to her share some female errors fall, Look on her faee, and you'll forget 'em all. Popt's Rape of the Loek.... | |
 | Charles Dexter Cleveland - American literature - 1848 - 786 pages
...strike, And, like the sun, they shine on all alike. Yet graceful ease, and sweetness void of pritle, Might hide her faults, if Belles had faults to hide; If to her sharp some female errors fall, Look on her face, and you'll forget them all. This Nymph, to the destruction... | |
 | John Halperin - Literary Criticism - 1975 - 352 pages
...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 had Faults to hide: If to her share some Female Errors fall, Look on her Face, and you'll forget 'em all. (n, 10-18) 'The tone is... | |
 | Carl R. Woodring, James Shapiro - Literary Criticism - 1995 - 936 pages
...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 had faults to hide: If to her share some female errors fall, Look on her face, and you'll forget 'em all. This nymph, to the destruction... | |
 | James E. Gill - English literature - 1995 - 468 pages
...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 all. (1712, 1.31-34) This is... | |
 | Steven H. Gale - English wit and humor - 1996 - 690 pages
...(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: Whether the Nymph shall... | |
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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... 
