| Oliver Goldsmith - 1840 - 504 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...guilt to cover, To hide her shame from every eye, To give repentance to her lover, And wring his bosom — is to die. As she was concluding the last stanza,... | |
| Oliver Goldsmith - 1841 - 548 pages
...child, 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...guilt to cover, To hide her shame from every eye, To give repentance to her lover, And wring his bosom — is to die. wretched for life, and polluted a... | |
| Oliver Goldsmith - 1841 - 398 pages
...Our modern bards ! why, what a pox Are they — but senseless stones and blocks ? STANZAS ON WOMAN. WHEN lovely woman stoops to folly, And finds too late...guilt to cover, To hide her shame from every eye, To give repentance to her lover, Ajid wring his bosom, is — to die. ELEGY ON THE DEATH OF A MAD DOG.... | |
| Oliver Goldsmith - 1842 - 446 pages
...child: 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...guilt to cover. To hide her shame from every eye, To give repentance to her lover, And wring his bosom, — is to die. As she was concluding the last stanza,... | |
| Oliver Goldsmith, John Aikin - 1842 - 322 pages
...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...guilt to cover, To hide her shame from every eye, As she was concluding the last stanza, to which an interruption in her voice, from sorrow, gave peculiar... | |
| Oliver Goldsmith - 1843 - 336 pages
...exquisitely pathetic as moved me. When lovely woman stoops to folly, And finds too late that men betruy, What charm can soothe her melancholy < What art can...away ! The only art her guilt to cover, To hide her slmme from every eye, To give repentance to her lover, And wring his bosom, is — to die. As she was... | |
| Thomas Kibble Hervey - 1845 - 436 pages
...child, it will please your old father." She complied in a manner so exquisitely pathetic as moved us. When lovely woman stoops to folly, And finds too late...guilt to cover, To hide her shame from every eye, To give repentance to her lover, And wring his bosom — is to die. As she was concluding the last stanza,... | |
| Oliver Goldsmith - 1845 - 550 pages
...child, 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...guilt to cover, To hide her shame from every eye, To give repentance to her lover, And wring his bosom — is to die. As (he was concluding the last stanza,... | |
| 1841 - 178 pages
...thee ; How small a part of time they share, That are so wondrous sweet and fair! STANZAS ON WOMAN. WHEN lovely woman stoops to folly, And finds too late...guilt to cover, To hide her shame from every eye, To give repentance to her lover, And wring his bosom is — to die. GOLDSMITH. LOVE. LOVE is a plant of... | |
| Oliver Goldsmith - 1845 - 220 pages
...child, it will please your old father." She complied in a manner so exquisitely pathetic as moved us. When lovely woman stoops to folly, And finds too late...guilt to cover, To hide her shame from every eye, To give repentance to her lover, And wring his bosom — is to die. As she was concluding the last stanza,... | |
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