 | Cyclopaedia - 1853 - 772 pages
...and these perchance I • might be tied, And knit again the knot that should not slide. Sir T. Wyatt, If to her share some female errors fall, Look on her face, and you 'll forget them all. Pope. There is no miniature In her face, but is a copious theme. Which would,... | |
 | Alexander Pope, Alexander Dyce - 1854 - 352 pages
...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 of mankind, Nourish'd two locks, which graceful hung behind In equal... | |
 | William Makepeace Thackeray - 1927 - 778 pages
...rustle. To glance at either of those bewitching portraits is to vow with the little Queen Anne's man : ' If to her share some female errors fall Look on her face and you'll forget them all.' Pure as snow, cold as ice, Siddons herself does not escape calumny. Labelled ' very scarce ' is ' Mrs.... | |
 | John Halperin - 1975 - 352 pages
...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 ironical,' as Cleanth Brooks reminds us, 'but the irony is not that... | |
 | Ulrich Broich - 1990 - 252 pages
...unfix'd as those: Favours to none, to all she Smiles extends, Oft she rejects, but never once offends. If to her share some Female Errors fall, Look on her Face, and you'll forget 'em all. Smooth flow the Waves, the Zephyrs gently play, Belinda smil'd, and all the World was gay.51... | |
 | Claude Julien Rawson - 2000 - 332 pages
...scribblers the kind of courtly turn which Pope excelled at simultaneously executing and subverting: 'If to her share some Female Errors fall,) Look on her Face, and you'll forget 'em all.' The irony disappears from Richardson's use of the formula at precisely the time when good... | |
 | Charlotte Lennox - 1995 - 340 pages
...languishing reverie for half a minute, gaze with a silent conviction of my power, and cry out in a rapture, 'If to her share some female errors fall, / Look on her face, and you'll forget them all.'" 64 "Very fine, said Mrs. Blandon, (endeavouring to stifle a laugh) a pretty picture of a coquet, this!... | |
 | Carl R. Woodring, James Shapiro - 1995 - 936 pages
...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 of mankind, Nourished two locks which graceful hung behind... | |
 | James E. Gill - 1995 - 468 pages
...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 changed to "Look on her Face, and you'll forget 'em all" (1714,... | |
 | Eliza Haywood - 1998 - 660 pages
...won't consider about the matter - So, come along, and always remember these never-failing lines — "If to her share, some female errors fall, Look on her face, and you'll forget them all." End of the First Ad. [Source: The Coquette; or, the Mistakes of the Heart. A comedy, as performed at... | |
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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... 
