 | Abraham Mills - 1851 - 616 strani
...lively looks a sprightly mind disclose, Quick as her eyes, and as unfixed as those. Favours to none, to all she smiles extends; Oft she rejects, but never once offends. Bright as the sun, her eyes the gazer strike, And, like the sun, they shine on all alike. Yet graceful ease, and sweetness void of... | |
 | John Halperin - 1975 - 352 strani
...lively Looks a sprightly Mind disclose, Quick as her Eyes, and as unfix'd as those; Favours to none, to all she Smiles extends: Oft she rejects, but never...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:... | |
 | Valerie Rumbold - 1989 - 342 strani
...affirmation. When challenged, even the most dazzling compliments reveal damaging possibilities: Yet graceful Ease, and Sweetness void of Pride, Might...Faults to hide: If to her share some Female Errors falf, Look on her Face, and you'll forgive 'em alL (Rape of the Lacke, I3I) This is the kind of crux... | |
 | Carl R. Woodring, James Shapiro - 1995 - 936 strani
...looks a sprightly mind disclose, Quick as her eyes, and as unfixed as those: 10 Favours to none, to all she smiles extends; Oft she rejects, but never...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:... | |
 | James E. Gill - 1995 - 468 strani
...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: If to her share some Female Errors fall, Look on her Face, and you'll forgive 'em all. (1712, 1.31-34) This is changed to "Look on her Face, and... | |
 | Steven H. Gale - 1996 - 690 strani
...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: Whether the Nymph shall... | |
 | Stephen Adams - 1997 - 260 strani
...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": so shall thou... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1998 - 260 strani
...looks a sprighdy mind disclose, Quick as her eyes, and as unfixed as those: 10 Favours to none, to all she smiles extends; Oft she rejects, but never...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:... | |
 | Carol Jacobs, Henry Sussman - 2003 - 300 strani
...the platonic Shaftesbury, in the figure of a Venus).14 We are informed that Belinda's perfection may "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." These "faults" ask to be related to the flaws and stains referred... | |
 | Ronald Paulson - 2003 - 460 strani
...the Platonic Shaftesbury, in the figure of a Venus).20 We are informed that Belinda's perfection may "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" (2.17-18). These "faults" ask to be related to the flaws and... | |
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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 had faults to hide : If to her share some... 
