Where does the phrase “the fortune of a face” appear in the works of Alexander Pope?
I’m not really sure it does, even though “The New Yorker” says so. “Garner has what Alexander Pope called ‘the fortune of a face’; her charismatic looks exist as an ironic contrast to the misfortune of Cyrano?s.” http://www.newyorker.com/arts/critics/theatre/2007/11/12/071112crth_theatre_lahr I’m wondering if it’s a misquote of this passage: “Now awful Beauty puts on all its Arms; The Fair each moment rises in her Charms, Repairs her Smiles, awakens ev’ry Grace, And calls forth all the Wonders of her Face;” http://andromeda.rutgers.edu/~jlynch/Texts/rapelock.html It’s far easier to imagine that I’m wrong than that the editors of “The New Yorker” are, however!
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