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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 Miscellaneous Works of Oliver Goldsmith: With an Account of His Life and ...

Oliver Goldsmith - 1830 - 544 pages
...child, it will please your old father." She complied in a manner so exquisitely pathetic as miedme. th awayl The only art her guilt to cover, To hide her shame from every eye, To give repentance to her...
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Select British Poets: Containing the Works of Goldsmith, Thomson, Gray ...

Thomas F. Walker - 1830 - 256 pages
...your graces, As I hope to be sav'd! without thinking on asses/' Edinburgh, 1753. 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...
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The Travels and Adventures of David C. Bunnell: During Twenty-three Years of ...

David C. Bunnell - 1831 - 206 pages
...discovery of the place of her retreat. This scene brought to. mind the following beautiful lines : — <; When lovely woman stoops to folly, And finds too late,...soothe her melancholy? What art can wash her guilt away ?" I remained in Charleston until I had spent all my money, and then shipped on board an English vessel,...
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The Vicar of Wakefield: A Tale

Oliver Goldsmith - 1832 - 464 pages
...too late, that men betray ; What charm can soothe her melancholy ? What art can wash her guilt away 1 The only art her guilt to cover, To hide her shame...give repentance to her lover, And wring his bosom, ia—to die. As she was concluding the last stanza, to which an interruption in her -voice, from sorrow,...
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Ardent: A Tale of Windsor Forest, in the Nineteenth Century ..., Volume 4

R. Wilmot - 1832 - 368 pages
...soothe her melancholy ? What dye can wash her sins away ? " ' The only way her guilt to cover, And hide her shame from every eye, To give repentance to her lover, And wring his bosom — is to die.' So you see the effects of persisting in folly and wickedness. Had she been prevailed upon by you, she...
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The Vicar of Wakefield: A Tale

Oliver Goldsmith - 1833 - 478 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...give repentance to her lover, And wring his bosom, is—to die. As she was concluding the last stanza, to which an interruption in her voice from sorrow...
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Tom Cringle's Log: Second Series, Volume 2

Michael Scott - 1833 - 254 pages
...your bed now, Tam—ye're fou, man." "Oh! Buenos Noches." CHAPTER XV. « THE PIBATE'S LEMAN. • " 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 can cover, To hide her...
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Tom Cringle's Log, Volume 2

Michael Scott - 1833 - 400 pages
...that dark pool, and the scenes I witnessed there that day and night. CHAPTER II. THE PIRATE'S LEMAN. " When lovely woman stoops to folly, And finds too late that men betray, What charm ran soothe her melancholy, What art can wash her guilt away ? " The only art her guilt can cover, To...
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The Quarterly Review, Volume 50

William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, John Murray, Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle), George Walter Prothero - 1834 - 600 pages
...Primrose had to think of, when that fair desolate sung those never to be forgotten stanzas : — ' When lovely woman stoops to folly, And finds too late...to her lover, And wring his bosom — is to die.' Theresa calls on Trevelyan, and he is soon bending over the couch of her anguish, despair, and mortal...
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The Quarterly Review, Volume 50

William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray IV, Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle) - 1834 - 590 pages
...Primrose had to think of, when that fair desolate sung those never to be forgotten stanzas : — • When lovely woman stoops to folly, And finds too late...to her lover, And wring his bosom — is to die.' Theresa calls on Trevelyan, and he is soon bending over the couch of her anguish, despair, and mortal...
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