 | James Russell Kincaid - 1998 - 372 pages
...any 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... | |
 | Ashley Montagu - 1999 - 340 pages
...the eighteenth century Oliver Goldsmith had a revealing solution to this problem in a poignant poem: When lovely woman stoops to folly And finds too late...repentance to her lover And wring his bosom, is — to die. Naturally, not the man, but the woman had to die. The double standard of sexual morality is immemorially... | |
 | Elizabeth M. Knowles - 1999 - 1160 pages
...plain, that they had more of love than matrimony in them. The Vicar of Wukefield 1 1 766) ch. ift 30 When lovely woman stoops to folly And finds too late...her melancholy, What art can wash her guilt away? DIP Vicar of Wakefte\A(iJhh}fh. 29; cf. Eliot 296:11 31 There is no arguing with Johnson; l'or when... | |
 | Robert X. Leeds - 1999 - 366 pages
...the hall. S TO OPS TO FOIiY Oliver Goldsmith When lovely woman stoops to folly, And finds too late men betray, What charm can soothe her melancholy....repentance to her lover. And wring his bosom — is to die. Margaret Eytinge 'Twas near the break of day, but still The moon was shining brightly, The west wind... | |
 | Dhira B. Mahoney - 2000 - 622 pages
...the gramophone. (11. 253-256) The lines from The Vicar ofWakefield which Eliot is parodying begin: When lovely woman stoops to folly. And finds too late...her melancholy? What art can wash her guilt away? and conclude with the observation that the only "art her guilt to cover" is "to die." Again the contrast... | |
 | Richard Nelson - 2001 - 68 pages
...AND FINDS TOO LATE THAT MEN BETRAY WHAT CHARMS CAN SOOTHE HER MELANCHOLY, WHAT ART CAN WASH HER GRIEF AWAY? THE ONLY ART HER GUILT TO COVER TO HIDE HER...TO HER LOVER, AND WRING HIS BOSOM, IS — TO DIE. (The singer and the song touches everyone in the room For a moment, she is confused and cannot continue.... | |
 | H. S. Toshack - 2001 - 135 pages
...popularised by Queen Mary. I think she was God in drag. (Nancy Banks-Smith in The Guardian newspaper) K When lovely woman stoops to folly And finds too late...charm can soothe her melancholy? What art can wash her tears away? (Woman Oliver Goldsmith, 1728-1774) L To be buried in lava and not turn a hair, it is then... | |
 | Susan Zlotnick - 2001 - 346 pages
...lovely woman stoops to folly, And finds too late that men betray, What can sooth her melancholy, What can wash her guilt away? The only art her guilt to cover, To hide her shame from every eye, To wring repentance form her lover, And sting his bosom, is to die.' I did not, however, feel inclined... | |
 | T. S. Eliot - 2003 - 148 pages
...underworld (Homer, Odyssey, XI). 24. When . . . folly: the song in Goldsmith's Vicar of Wakefield (1766): "When lovely woman stoops to folly, / And finds too...to her lover / And wring his bosom — is to die." 25. This music . . .: see lines 48, 125. 26. Strand: a street running east and west, parallel to the... | |
 | David J. Fekete - 2003 - 314 pages
...by a false lover. She sings a song, one evening, about false love from which Eliot borrows a line: When lovely woman stoops to folly, And finds too late...repentance to her lover, And wring his bosom — is to die. 448 Moved by her own experience, Olivia falters in her singing. The contrast can hardly be more marked.... | |
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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... 
