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 soothe her melancholy? What art can wash her guilt away? The only art her guilt to cover, To hide her... Oliver Goldsmith's The Vicar of Wakefield - Page 142by Oliver Goldsmith - 1896 - 205 pagesFull view - About this book
| Oliver Goldsmith - English language - 1847 - 376 pages
...The only art her guilt to c6ver, T6 hide her shame fr6m ev'ry eye, T6 give repentance to her l6ver, And wring his bosom, is — to die. As she was concluding the last stanza, t/, which an interruption in her voice, from sorrow, gave peculiar softness, the appearance 6f Mr.... | |
| Hercules Ellis - Ballads, Irish (English) - 1849 - 296 pages
...passions base and mean, To natures like their own. WHEN LOVELY WOMAN STOOPS TO FOLLY. Songlet. GOLDSMITH. When lovely woman stoops to folly, And finds, too...repentance to her lover, And wring his bosom — is to die. OH! EEIN! Songlet. JOHN DALTON. Oh ! Erin 1 in thine hour of need, Thy warriors wander o'er the earth... | |
| Electronic journals - 1883 - 668 pages
...mentioned the use of wring in Goldsmith's Stanzas on Woman ?— " The only act her guilt to сотег, To hide her shame from every eye, To give repentance to her lover And wring his bosom, is to die." ED. MARSHALL. ANCIENT CUSTOM AT THE BRINGING - IN OF LIGHT (6№ S. vi. 346, 524).— In a translation... | |
| Oliver Goldsmith, Sir James Prior - 1850 - 558 pages
...too late that men betray ; What charm can soothe her melancholy, What art can wash her guilt away 1 The only art her guilt to cover, To hide her shame...to her lover, And wring his bosom — is to die.* ELEGY ON THE DEATH OF A MAD DOG.f Good people all, of every sort, Give ear unto my song ; And if you... | |
| William Hetherington (of Cockermouth.) - 1850 - 214 pages
...man's base cruelty. 1. " When lovely woman stoops to folly, And finds too late that men betray; 2. The only art her guilt to cover, To hide her shame...to her lover, And wring his bosom — is to die." vn. Man, the world's tyrant, walks in pride, And triumphs o'er his conquests made', Till time, life's... | |
| Washington Irving - 1851 - 400 pages
...daughter as before. ' Do, my pretty Olivia,' cried she, ' let us have that melancholy air your father was so fond of; your sister Sophy has already obliged...to her lover, And wring his bosom — is to die.' " Scarce had the Vicar of Wakefield made its appearance and been received with acclamation, than its... | |
| Washington Irving - American literature - 1851 - 402 pages
...late that men betray, • What charm can soothe her melancholy, What art can wash her guilt away 1 The only art her guilt to cover, To hide her shame...to her lover, And wring his bosom — is to die.' " Scarce had the Vicar of Wakefield made its appearance and been received with acclamation, than its... | |
| Oliver Goldsmith - Irish literature - 1851 - 476 pages
...Htnriade. t Goldsmith claimed n hitiondiip with tola gallant soldier, WHOM character be greatly admired. The only art her guilt to cover, To hide her shame...to her lover, And wring his bosom, is — to die. A SONNET.* WEEPING, murmuring, complaining, Lost to every gay delight, Myra, too sincere for feigning,... | |
| Oliver Goldsmith - 1851 - 160 pages
...too late that men betray, What charm can soothe her melancholy, What art can wash her guilt away t The only art her guilt to cover, To hide her shame...to her lover, And wring his bosom — is, to die. DESCRIPTION OF AN AUTHOR'S BEDCHAMBER. WHERE the Red Lion staring o'er the way, Invites each passing... | |
| Vedeha (Thera) - Sinhalese language - 1852 - 560 pages
...89gts<J8S>O tSfoo 9 8 Q " When lovely woman stoops to folly, And finds too late that men betray; What charms can soothe her melancholy, What art can wash her guilt...repentance to her lover And wring his bosom, is to die." — Goldtndth, With a view to shew our readers those shades of difference, which ever exist in the... | |
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