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
| 1835 - 466 lehte
...child of bliss, I may alike be blest nt last. EKORT PLAGIARISM, BY GOLDSMITH. (_To the Editor.) " When lovely woman stoops to folly, And finds too late that...to her lover. And wring his bosom, is — to die." Chappell, and increased a greate parte of the East ende of the saied halle, beside many other good... | |
| 1835 - 428 lehte
...MISCELLANEOUS WORKS OF CERVANTES. (For the Parterre). CHAP. I. When lovely woman stoops lo folly, And finds tou late that men betray, What charm can soothe her melancholy, What art can wash her guilt away? Goldsmith. FIVE leagues northward of the city of Seville, there was in the sixteenth century, as there... | |
| 1835 - 378 lehte
...forc'd to die a maid ! WHEN LOVELY WOMAN STOOPS TO FOLLY. OLIVER GOLDSMITH. Born 1728— Died 1774. 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... | |
| Michael Scott - 1835 - 360 lehte
...PIRATE'S LEMAN. " When lovely woman stoopa to folly, And finds too late that men betray, What charms can soothe her melancholy, What art can wash her guilt away " The only an her guilt can cover, To hide her shame from every eye, To give repentance to her lover, And wring... | |
| 1835 - 428 lehte
...Al» ANDALUSIAN TALK, FROM THE MISCELLANEOUS WOKKS ОГ CERVANTES. (For UK P arierreJ. CHAP. I. When lovely woman stoops to folly. And finds too late that men betray, \\ lut charm can soothe her melancholy, What art can wash her guilt away? Goldsmith. FIVE leagues northward... | |
| G. S. Rousseau - 1995 - 420 lehte
...it will please your old father." She complied in a manner so exquisitely pathetic as moved me. 'When lovely woman stoops to folly, And finds too late that...to her lover, And wring his bosom — is to die.' Scarce had the Vicar of Wakefield made its appearance and been received with acclamation, than its... | |
| Carl R. Woodring, James Shapiro - 1995 - 936 lehte
...certainly with the vivacity of She Stoops to Conquer (1773). WHEN LOVELY WOMAN STOOPS TO FOLLY When lovely woman stoops to folly. And finds too late that...repentance to her lover, And wring his bosom — is to die. From THE DESERTED VILLAGE Sweet Aubum, loveliest village of the plain. Where health and plenty cheered... | |
| Dorothy McInnis Scura - 1995 - 278 lehte
...woman sings the following "melancholy air": WOMEN, FORM AND IDEA IN The Romantic Comedians 190 When lovely woman stoops to folly, And finds too late that...repentance to her lover, And wring his bosom — is to die. Glasgow's new woman neither defines her situation as comparable to the lovely woman's nor values Goldsmith's... | |
| Nancy K. Miller - 1995 - 258 lehte
...written. PART FOUR EXQUISITE CADAVERS THE EXQUISITE CADAVERS Women in Eighteenth-Century Fiction 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 every eye, To give repentance to... | |
| Bertrand Russell - 1996 - 196 lehte
...accurately in "The Vicar of Wakefield": The only art her guilt to cover, To hide her same from ev'ry eye, To give repentance to her lover And wring his bosom is — to die. The modern spinster does not consider death necessary in these circumstances. If she has had a good... | |
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