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... The Poetical Works of Oliver Goldsmith - Page 46by Oliver Goldsmith - 1872 - 231 pagesFull view - About this book
| 1822 - 418 pages
...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 ?...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.. SONG OF A SPIRIT. MRS... | |
| 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... | |
| 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... | |
| Oliver Goldsmith - 1823 - 156 pages
...father.' She complied in a manner so exquisitely pathetic, aa moved me. WHEN lovely woman stoops to folly, And finds too late that men betray, What charm can...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.... | |
| William Frederick Deacon - 1823 - 494 pages
...the young ones are romping about • * * * *, ROSALIE: STalr. " 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 ?" GOLDSMITH. IN the heart of South Wales, and in the neighbourhood of theyillageof Llangadock, there... | |
| Edward Allen Talbot - 1824 - 848 pages
...as on many others, they differ widely from our inimitable poet : When lovely woman stoops to folly, And finds too late that men betray, What charm can...give repentance to her lover, And wring his bosom, is—to die. Such a sentiment as this would in Canada bo regarded merely as the wild effusion of some... | |
| John Milton - 1824 - 510 pages
...without thinking on asses.' Edinburgh, 17X: ON WOMAN. WHEN lovely woman stoops to folly, And find« too late that men betray, What charm can soothe her...every eye To give repentance to her lover. And wring hie bosom— i», to die. DESCRIPTION AUTHOR'S BED-CHAMBER. WHERE the Red Lion, staring o'er the way,... | |
| Catherine George Ward - 1824 - 720 pages
...a greatly admired poet too true a picture of her fate : « When lovely woman stoops to folly, Anil finds, too late, that men betray ; What charm can...art her guilt to cover, To hide her shame from every rye, 27 4 i To give repentance to her lover, And wring his bosom— is, to die." But Mariette did not... | |
| Cabinet - 1824 - 440 pages
...brightest of the NINE ! ROSALIE. From " tee Innkeeper's Album." " 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 ?" GOLDSMITH. IN the heart of South Wales, and in the neighbourhood of the village of Llangadock, there... | |
| Oliver Goldsmith - 1825 - 476 pages
...recover'd of the bite, The dog it was that died. STANZAS WOMAN. WHEN lovely woman stoops to folly, And finds too late that men betray, What charm can...repentance to her lover, And wring his bosom — is to die. THE TRAVELLER; OR, A PROSPECT OF SOCIETY: A POEM. FIRST PRINTED IN MDCCLXV. TO THE REV. HENRY GOLDSMITH.... | |
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