...as those : Favours to none, to all she smiles extends ; j Oft she rejects, but never once offends. Bright as the Sun, her eyes the gazers strike, And,...Might hide her faults, if belles had faults to hide 1 1 to her share some female errors fall, Look on her face, and you'll forget them all. This nymph,...

...unfix'd as those : Favours to none, to all she smiles extends ; Oft she rejects, hut never once offends. more worthy of hatred than of pity. These were dispositions Vet graceful ease, and sweetness void of pride, Might hide her faults, if helles had faults to hide...

...unfixt as those ; 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, Ihey' shine on all alike. Yet graceful ease, and swecir.css void of pride, Might hide their faults,...

...the sun her eyes the gazers strike , And, like that sun, they shine on all alike. Yet graceful case, and sweetness void of pride, Might hide her faults,...to hide : If to her share some female errors fall, Look on her face, and you '11 forget them all." Rape of the Lock. This organ is largely developed in...

...unfix'd as those; 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,...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...

...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...

...unfixed as those: 10 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,...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...

...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...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,...

...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...

...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...