 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...  Dictionary of Quotations: (English) - Page 334by Philip Hugh Dalbiac - 1897 - 510 pagesFull view - About this book
 | 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... | |
 | 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... | |
 | 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... | |
 | 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... | |
 | 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.... | |
 | 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... | |
 | 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... | |
 | Laurence Sterne - 1823 - 762 pages
...child, it will please your old father." She complied in a manner so exquisitely pathetic, as moved me. opposed by still greater. 268 289 for Mr Burchell's absence, by the company of our lan sooth her melancholy ? What art can wash her guilt away ? The only art her guilt to cover, To hide... | |
 | 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... | |
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