...never forgive you, if you don't let her go through with it. Darn. I beg your pardon, madam. Chart. " Bright as the sun her eyes the gazers strike, And like the sun they shine on all alike" — um — Darn. That is something like indeed. Col. Lamb. You would say so, if you knew all. Darn....

...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,...female errors fall, Look on her face, and you'll forget them all. shone, This nymph, to the destruction of mankind, PJourish'd" two locks, which graceful hung...

...Darn. All what? pray what do you mean? Col. !.. Have a litUe patience: I'll tell you immediately. Char. "If to her share some female errors fall, Look on her face — and you'll forget them all." Is not that natural, Mr. Darnley? Darn. For a woman to expect, it is indeed. Char. And can...

...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...

...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 The two...

...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 poets were...

...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,...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 20 In equal...

...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...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,...

...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...

...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...