 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 334by Philip Hugh Dalbiac - 1897 - 510 lehteFull view - About this book
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1820 - 212 lehte
...can wash her guilt away? • ' J ' • '.!• .• The only art her guilt to eov«fr, .•;,». "''rt To hide her shame from every eye, ', To give repentance...to her lover, And wring his bosom, is — to die. As she was concluding the last stanza, to whkli an interruption in her voice from sorrow gave peculiar... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1799 - 214 lehte
...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 lehte
...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 too late...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 lehte
...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 lehte
...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 - 1805 - 264 lehte
...WOMAN. \VHEN 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 AUTHOR'S... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1806 - 248 lehte
...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 lehte
...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 lehte
...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 lehte
...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... | |
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