 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...  Poetical Works - Page 62by Oliver Goldsmith - 1806 - 72 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Oliver Goldsmith - English poetry - 1825 - 160 pages
...charm can soolh her melancholy. What art can Tvatb her guilt away ? The only art her guilt to corer, To hide her shame from every eye., To give repentance to her lover, And wring his bosom1 — i«, to die. '.si.. LINES, .Vwnirf « Ciirauu'le of .fym' 3, K'BM have you seen, bath'd... | |
 | Regina Maria Roche - 1825 - 926 pages
...by voluntarily renouncing what she was M 2 unworthy of enjoying ; in short, she felt that— " When lovely woman stoops to folly, • ' And finds too late that men betray, No grief can sooth her melancholy, No tears can wash her guilt away." - . But it was not through Eugene's... | |
 | William Child Green - 1826 - 606 pages
...image of affliction, desolation, and despair.. THB WOODLAND FAMILY. 445 CHAPTER XLIII. •• 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 ?" GOLDiMITH ON the morn succeeding that which... | |
 | Nathan Drake - Dramatists, English - 1828 - 534 pages
...from his conduct at her grave, which, indeed, reminds us of the beautiful lines of Goldsmith : — To give repentance to her lover, And wring his bosom, is — to die. " It is worthy of remark that the poet does not once bring Ophelia into the presence of Hamlet during... | |
 | Thomas Curtis - Aeronautics - 1829 - 832 pages
...dread abode ; There they alike in trembling hope repose, The bosom of his father and his God. Gray. The only art her guilt to cover, To hide her shame...eye, To give repentance to her lover. And wring his boson is — to die. Goldsmith. Not the soft sighs of vernal gales, The fragrance of the flowery vales.... | |
 | Thomas Curtis (of Grove house sch, Islington) - 414 pages
...dread abode ; There they alike in trembling hope repose, The botom of his father and his God. Gray. The only art her guilt to cover. To hide her shame...from every eye, To give repentance to her lover. And wriug his botom is — to die. Goldmnth. Not the soft sighs of vernal gales, The fragrance of the Bowery... | |
 | John Trotter Brockett - English language - 1829 - 368 pages
...taken of her by a faithless swain, without affording her a legitimate right to his protection, — When lovely woman stoops to folly, And finds too late that men betray. ACKERSPRIT, the premature sprouting of a potatoe, the germination of grain. V. Skin. Jam. and Wilb.... | |
 | Thomas F. Walker - English poetry - 1830 - 256 pages
...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... | |
 | Walter Scott - 1830 - 372 pages
...influence both of hunger and fatigue, Henry Warden retained his standing posture. CHAPTER VIII. When lovely woman stoops to folly, And finds too late that men betray JULIAN AVENEL saw with surprise the demeanour of the reverend stranger. " Beshrew me/' he said, " these... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1830 - 544 pages
...the rogues they lied: The man recover'd of the bite, The dog it was that died. STANZAS ON WOMAN. WHEN urned with a confirmation of the dismal tidings. No ceremony coul Wliat charms can soothe her melancholy, Wbat art can wash her guilt away? The only art her guilt to... | |
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