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 Esq - Page 141by Alexander Pope - 1751 - 274 pagesFull view - About this book
| William Spalding - English language - 1853 - 446 pages
...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. III. FROM THE " ELEGY... | |
| Alexander Pope, Alexander Dyce - 1854 - 352 pages
...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. TMs nymph, to the destruction... | |
| William Spalding - English literature - 1854 - 446 pages
...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. in. FROM THE " ELECY ON... | |
| George Croly - English poetry - 1854 - 426 pages
...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... | |
| William Hazlitt - English literature - 1854 - 980 pages
...strike ; And, like the sun, they shine on all alike, Yet graceful case, and sweetness void of pride, Might hide her faults, if belles had faults to hide : If to her share come female errors fall, Look on her face, and you'll forget 'em all. This nymph, to the destruction... | |
| Sarah Josepha Buell Hale - Quotations, English - 1855 - 612 pages
...his eye, and palls upon the sense. Addison's Coto. Yet graeeful 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 faee, and you 'll forget 'em all. Pope's Rape of the Loek.... | |
| Drawing-room sibyl - 1855 - 464 pages
...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. Pope. 1 A lovely maid,... | |
| Charles Dexter Cleveland - English literature - 1856 - 800 pages
...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
...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 - 512 pages
...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... | |
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