 When lovely woman stoops to folly, And finds too late that men betray ; What charm can soothe her melancholy, What art can wash her guilt away ? The only art her guilt to cover, To hide her shame from every eye, To give repentance to her lover, And wring...  Poetical Works - Page 62by Oliver Goldsmith - 1806 - 72 lehteFull view - About this book
 | B. C. Southam - 1996 - 292 lehte
...melancholy/What art can wash her guilt away?/The only art her guilt to cover/To hide her shame from every eye/To give repentance to her lover/ And wring his bosom - is to die.' /. 257: Eliot refers us to The Tempest i, ii, the words of Ferdinand remembering the music that calmed... | |
 | Robert Andrews - 1997 - 666 lehte
...dramatist, poet. Polly, in The Beggar's Opera, act 1 , sc. 8, air 8 (1728), ed. FW Bateson (1934). 4 When lovely woman stoops to folly, And finds too late that...her melancholy, What art can wash her guilt away? OLIVER GOLDSMITH, (1728-1774) Anglo-Irish author, poet, playwright. Song sung by Olivia, in The Vicar... | |
 | John Hollander - 1997 - 342 lehte
...altered quotation of the first line of Oliver Goldsmith's famous song from The Vicar of Wakefield, When lovely woman stoops to folly, And finds too late that...soothe her melancholy, What art can wash her guilt away?6 In the rather nasty treatment the poem gives to "the typist home at teatime" in "The Fire Sermon"... | |
 | Leslie A. Fiedler - 1997 - 524 lehte
...Woman. The plaintive lines of Goldsmith, which reflect faithfully the sentimentality of Richardson, When lovely woman stoops to folly, And finds too late that...charm can soothe her melancholy? What art can wash her tears away? The only art her guilt to cover, To hide her shame from ev'ry eye, To give repentance to... | |
 | John Hollander - 1997 - 342 lehte
...Goldsmith's famous song from The Vicar of W ake field, When lovely woman stoops to folly, And finds t<x> late that men betray, What charm can soothe her melancholy, What art can wash her guilt away?6 In the rather nasty treatment the poem gives to "the typist home at teatime" in "The Fire Sermon"... | |
 | Joanna Thornborrow, Shân Wareing - 1998 - 284 lehte
...nine-syllable lines end in unstressed syllables. forming double rhymes as discussed earlier: 32 When lovely woman stoops to folly. And finds too late that...repentance to her lover, And wring his bosom - is to die. Blank verse Blank verse consists of lines in iambic pentameter which do not rhyme. These are very common... | |
 | Connie Robertson - 1998 - 686 lehte
...me pretty plain, that they had more of love than matrimony in them. 4199 The Vicar ofWakefield When t few thy voice; Take each man's censure, but reserve...as thy purse can buy. But not expressed in fancy; GOLDWATER Barry 19094200 (accepting the presidential nomination) I would remind you that extremism... | |
 | Connie Robertson - 1998 - 404 lehte
...me pretty plain, that they had more of love than matrimony in them. 1707 The Vicar ofWakefield When lovely woman stoops to folly And finds too late that...her melancholy, What art can wash her guilt away? wit. GOLDWYNSam 1882-1974 1708 I read part of it all the way through. 1709 Chaplin is no businessman... | |
 | Connie Robertson - 1998 - 404 lehte
...me pretty plain, that they had more of love than matrimony in them. 1707 The Vicar ofWakefield When lovely woman stoops to folly And finds too late that...betray, What charm can soothe her melancholy, What an can wash her guilt away? wit. GOLDWYNSam 1882-1974 1708 I read part of it all the way through. 1709... | |
 | James Russell Kincaid - 1998 - 372 lehte
...child. Are we denning the child's innocence in the way older societies denned women's virginity? When lovely woman stoops to folly And finds too late that men betray What charm can sooth her melancholy? What art can wash her guilt away? The only art her guilt to cover, To hide her... | |
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