 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 English Poets: Selections - Stran 381uredili: - 1909Celotni ogled - O knjigi
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1799 - 214 strani
...old father ». She complied in a manner 59 exquisitely pathetick as moved me : * VV HEW lovely-woman stoops to -folly, And finds too late that men betray,...repentance to her lover, And wring his bosom = is to die. As she was conclnding the last stanza, to which aninterrnption in her voice from sorrow gave peculiar... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1800 - 192 strani
...shall ne'er see your graces, " As I hope to be sav'd! without thinking on asses." EDINBURGH, 175*. WOMAN. WHEN lovely woman stoops to folly, And finds...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. ON THE TAKING OF QUEBEC.... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1803 - 192 strani
...WOMAN. VV HEN 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 ?...to her lover, And wring his bosom.. ..is, to die. DESCRIPTION AUTHOR'S BED-CHAMBER. WHERE the Red Lion staring o'er the way, Invites each passing stranger... | |
 | Charles Henry Wilson - 1803 - 228 strani
...Dr. Goldsmith. WHEN lovely woman stoops to folly, And finds, too late, that man betray ; What charms can soothe her melancholy ? What art can wash her...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 ! CORN RIGGS ARE BONNY.... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1806 - 248 strani
...your graces, 14 As I hope to be sav'd ; without thinking on asses f Edinburgh, 1753. STANZAS ON WOMAN. lovely woman stoops to folly, * * And finds too late...to her lover. And wring his bosom— is— to die. DESCRIPTION OF AN AUTHOR'S BEDCHAMBER. he Red Lion staring o'er the way, * * Invites each passing stranger... | |
 | John Aikin - 1806 - 346 strani
...late that men betray, What charm can sooth her melancholy, What art can wash her guilt away ? Th« only art her guilt to cover, To hide her shame from...to her lover, And wring his bosom, is — to die. I confess, however, they have to me a charm beyond that of almost any piece of the kind with which... | |
 | John Aikin - 1807 - 320 strani
...Wo»man." 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 ?...to her lover, And wring h"is bosom, is — to die. I confess, however, they have to me acharm beyond that of almost any piece of the kind with which I... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1807 - 326 strani
...me. When lovely woman stoops to folly, And finds, too late, that me» betray, What charm can sooth her melancholy, What art can wash her guilt away !...repentance 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... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1809 - 304 strani
...the rogues they ly'd ; The man recover'd of the bite, The dog it was that dy'd. STANZAS ON WOMAN. HEN lovely woman stoops to folly, And finds too late that...repentance to her lover, And wring his bosom— is to die. THE GIFT. TO IRIS, BOW-STREET, COVENT GARDES. ^AY, cruel Iris, pretty rake, Dear mercenary beauty,... | |
 | John Aikin, Robert Harding Evans - 1810 - 508 strani
...[GOLDsMITH.] 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...to her lover, And wring his bosom, is — to die. 1 ELL my Stephen that I die ; Let echoes to each other tell, Till the mournful accents fly To Strephon's... | |
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