Explanations: Favours to none, to all she smiles extends; Oft she rejects but never once offends.

Explanations:

Favours to none, to all she smiles extends;

Oft she rejects but never once offends.

Answer: These memorable and noteworthy lines have been quoted from the 2nd canto of the famous mock-heroic "The Rape of the Lock” written by the famous poet of the eighteenth century, Alexander Pope. Here the poet has giving a fair picture of Belinda while she was making a journey by boat on the river 'Thames. Her looks are free. She looks at all, in the same manner, he does not fall in love with anybody in his company.

Belinda is a fashionable lady and she is the central character of our mock-heroic. She is a pleasure-seeking lady she always takes delighting wearing rich her dress and in joining the masque and party. Now, we find her on the way to the Hampton court. She along with her boyfriends and girlfriends make a journey by boat in the Thames. The boat is very pompous and the gallants are joyous. Belinda is also delighted. She looks at his comrades but she does not favor any of them as her suitor. She only enjoys their company but does not eager to marry any particular person. She wants that she should be expected by all but should not be married.

Actually, through these lines, Pope has depicted the pretty and pleasure-seeking life of the young ladies of London of his contemporary age. The ladies of the then society were very much eager to remain unmarried and to enjoy the friendship of various men. Thus here Pope in a very severe satirical tone attacks the beaux and belles of the seventeenth century. -