 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
 | 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... | |
 | Abraham Mills - English literature - 1858 - 608 pages
...eyes the gazer 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 '11 forget them all. This nymph, to the destruction... | |
 | George Stillman Hillard - Readers (Elementary) - 1858 - 348 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. Mont Blanc is the monarch... | |
 | Charles Dexter Cleveland - English literature - 1858 - 780 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. Tins Nymph, to the destruction... | |
 | Leigh Hunt - 1859 - 550 pages
...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 then all. Compare with this... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1863 - 348 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... | |
 | 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... | |
 | 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... | |
 | 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... | |
 | 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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