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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... "
A Collection of Familiar Quotations: With Complete Indices of Authors and ... - Page 96
by John Bartlett - 1856 - 358 pages
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The Wreath: A Collection of Poems from Celebrated English Authors

1821 - 282 pages
...universal ruin shall erect thy throne, And Fate confirm thy kingdom evermore thy own. STANZAS ON WOMAN 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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The Wreath: A Collection of Poems from Celebrated English Authors

1821 - 270 pages
...universal ruin shall erect thy throne, And Fate confirm thy kingdom evermore thy own. STANZAS ON WOMANWHEN 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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The Works of the British Poets: With Lives of the Authors, Volume 30

Ezekiel Sanford, Robert Walsh - 1822 - 428 pages
...charming maid, I'll give thee — to the devil.* STANZAS OJV WOMAN. (FROM THE VICAR OF WAEEFIELD.) 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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The Poetical Common-place Book: Consisting of an Original Selection of ...

1822 - 418 pages
...o'er, My last fond thought will be of thee. My native shore — my native shore ! WHEN LOVELY WOMAN. 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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The Traveller, the Deserted Village, and Other Poems

Oliver Goldsmith - 1822 - 194 pages
...civil : 111 give thee — ah ! too charming maid, I'll give thee — to the devil. STANZAS ON WOMAN. 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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The British Poets: Including Translations ...

British poets - 1822 - 290 pages
...than civil: I'll give thee—ah! too charming maid, I 'll give thee—to the devil. STANZAS ON WOMAN. 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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The Inn-keeper's Album

William Frederick Deacon - 1823 - 494 pages
...goes to sleep in the arm-chair while the young ones are romping about • * * * *, ROSALIE: STalr. " When lovely woman stoops to folly, And finds too late...soothe her melancholy, What art can wash her guilt away ?" GOLDSMITH. IN the heart of South Wales, and in the neighbourhood of theyillageof Llangadock, there...
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The Vicar of Wakefield: A Tale

Oliver Goldsmith - 1823 - 156 pages
...child, it will please your old father.' She complied in a manner so exquisitely pathetic, aa moved me. WHEN lovely woman stoops to folly, And finds too late...her melancholy, What art can wash her guilt away? 1 9 The only art her guilt to cover, To hide her shame from every eye, To give repentance to her lover....
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The Vicar of Wakefield: A Tale

Oliver Goldsmith - 1823 - 768 pages
...me. When lovely woman .stoops to folly, And finds, too late, that men betray. What chami can sooth her melancholy ? What art can wash her guilt away...only art her guilt to cover, To hide her shame from ev'ry eye, To give repentance to her lover, And wring his bosom, ii — to die. As she was concluding...
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The Novels of Sterne, Goldsmith, Dr. Johnson, Mackenzie, Horace Walpole, and ...

Laurence Sterne - 1823 - 764 pages
...moved me. 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...only art her guilt to cover, To hide her shame from ev'ry eye, To give repentance to her lover, And wring his bosom, is — to die. As she was concluding...
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