 | Alexander Pope - 1963 - 884 Seiten
...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, 15 Might hide her Faults, if Belles had Faults to hide : If to her share some Female Errors fall, Look... | |
 | Alexander Pope, Aubrey Beardsley - 1968 - 84 Seiten
...they shine on all alike. Yet graceful Ease, and Sweetness void of Pride, 15 Might hide her Faults, it Belles had Faults to hide : If to her share some Female Errors fall, Look on her Face, and you'll forget 'em all. Nourish'd two Locks which graceful hung behind 20 In equal Curls, and well conspir'd... | |
 | John Halperin - 1975 - 352 Seiten
...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....share some Female Errors fall, Look on her Face, and you'll forget 'em all. (n, 10-18) 'The tone is ironical,' as Cleanth Brooks reminds us, 'but the irony... | |
 | Valerie Rumbold - 1989 - 342 Seiten
...unequivocal 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 Seiten
...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....share some female errors fall, Look on her face, and you'll forget 'em all. This nymph, to the destruction of mankind, Nourished two locks which graceful... | |
 | James E. Gill - 1995 - 468 Seiten
...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...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 you'll forget 'em... | |
 | Steven H. Gale - 1996 - 690 Seiten
...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 Seiten
...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 Seiten
...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....share some female errors fall, Look on her face, and you'll forget 'em all. This nymph, to the destruction of mankind, Nourished two locks, which graceful... | |
 | Carol Jacobs, Henry Sussman - 2003 - 300 Seiten
...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...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 to by Ariel... | |
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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... 
