 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 - Stran 104avtor: Oliver Goldsmith (the Poet.) - 1839Celotni ogled - O knjigi
 | John Aikin - 1806 - 346 strani
...character. Plainer words cannot be found than those which compose the following " 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 ? Th« only art her guilt to cover, To hide... | |
 | 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 - 1808 - 216 strani
...Wfcen lovely woman stoops t And finds, too late, that men betray, What charm can sooth her melancholy f What art can wash her guilt away? The only art her guilt to cover, To bide her shame from ev'ry eye, To give repentance to her lover, And wring his bosom, is — to die.... | |
 | 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,... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1809 - 262 strani
...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 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... | |
 | Mrs. Costello - 1809 - 236 strani
...REES, AND OBMB, •PATERNOITER-ROW. •• •'" i-.V .'.'. THE SOLDIER'S ORPHAN: A TALE. CHAP. I. When lovely woman stoops to folly, And finds, too late, that men betray, What charm can sooth her melancholy, \Vhat art can wash her guilt away ? The only art, her guilt to cover, To hide... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1809 - 102 strani
...That he fhould be, like Cupid, blind, To fave him from Narciffus' fate. ON WOMAN. lovely woman ftoops to folly, And finds too late that men betray, What charm can foothe her melancholv, What art can wafh her guilt away? The only art her guilt to cover, To hide her... | |
 | 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... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1810 - 656 strani
...WAKEFIEtD. 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. DESCRIPTION OF AN AUTHOR'S... | |
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