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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... "
Dictionary of Quotations: (English) - Page 334
by Philip Hugh Dalbiac - 1897 - 510 pages
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The Miscellaneous Works of Oliver Goldsmith: With an Account of His Life and ...

Oliver Goldsmith - 1838 - 544 pages
...STANZAS ON WOMAN. WHEN lovely woman stoops to folly, And finds too late that men betray, What charms married already." — " You lie, like a rascal," returned...woman." " Indeed, begging your honour's pardon," repl THE TRAVELLER; OR, A PROSPECT OF SOCIETY. TO THE REV. HENRY GOLDSMITH. DEAR SIR, I AM sensible that...
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Court Magazine, and Monthly Critic: Containing Original Papers ..., Volume 10

1837 - 348 pages
...have treated this subject differently: his morality was of another cast. Of the lost one he saj s, The only art her guilt to cover, To hide her shame...repentance to her lover, And wring his bosom is — to die ! But these are trite lines, that would furnish but a sorry hint for the Anglo-French drama of our...
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Court Magazine, and Monthly Critic, Volume 10

1837 - 336 pages
...have treated this subject differently: his morality was of another cast. Of the lost one he sa} s, The only art her guilt to cover, To hide her shame...repentance to her lover. And wring his bosom is — to die ! But these are trite lines, that would furnish but a sorry hint for the Anglo-French drama of our...
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The Poetical Works of Oliver Goldsmith

Oliver Goldsmith - 1839 - 360 pages
...your graces, As I hope to be sav'd ! without thinking on asses.' Edinburgh, 1753. STANZAS ON WOMAN.1 WHEN lovely woman stoops to folly, And finds too late...to her lover, And wring his bosom — is, to die. A DESCRIPTION OF AN AUTHOR'S BEDCHAMBER.' WHERE the Red Lion staring o'er the way, Invites each passing...
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Poems and Essays

Oliver Goldsmith - 1839 - 242 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...to her lover, And wring his bosom, is — to die. ELEGY ON THE DEATH OF A MAD DOG. GOOD people all, of every sort, Give ear unto my song, And if you...
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Nugæ metricæ [selections from the English poets, with Lat. tr.] by sir H.H ...

1839 - 66 pages
...placet, miserandaque semper, Donee erit terris pulsus et exul Amor. HH Stanzas on Woman. — GOLDSMITH. When lovely woman stoops to folly, And finds, too...guilt to cover, To hide her shame from every eye, To bring repentance to her lover, And wring his bosom— is — to die. From the Vicar of Wakefield. Si...
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The Miscellaneous Works of O.G.: To which is Prefixed Some Account of His ...

Oliver Goldsmith - 1840 - 504 pages
...showed the rogues they tied ; The man recover'd of the bite, The dog it was that died. 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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Goldsmith's Miscellaneous Works

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...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. GOOD people all, of every sort,...
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The Miscellaneous Works of Oliver Goldsmith: With an Account of His Life and ...

Oliver Goldsmith - 1841 - 548 pages
...STANZAS ON WOMAN. WHEN lovely woman stoops to folly, And rinds too late that men betray, What charms can soothe her melancholy, What art can wash her guilt...eye, To give repentance to her lover, And wring his bosora-^-is to die. THE TRAVELLER; OR, A PROSPECT OF SOCIETY. The, and the following poem, appeated...
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The Select Works of Oliver Goldsmith: With the Portrait of the Author

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...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, gave peculiar...
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