 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 Beauties of English Poesy - Page 7by Oliver Goldsmith - 1767Full view - About this book
 | William Spalding - English literature - 1854 - 446 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. in. FROM THE " ELECY ON... | |
 | George Croly - English poetry - 1854 - 426 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... | |
 | Sarah Josepha Buell Hale - Quotations, English - 1855 - 612 pages
...lover, Fades in 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
...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. Pope. 1 A lovely maid,... | |
 | Charles Dexter Cleveland - English literature - 1856 - 800 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... | |
 | 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.... | |
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