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 Miscellaneous Works of Oliver Goldsmith - Page 142by Oliver Goldsmith - 1812Full view - About this book
| Oliver Goldsmith - Facsimiles - 1766 - 286 pages
...to folly, And finds too late that men betray, What charm can footh her melancholy, What art can warn her guilt away ? The only art her guilt to cover, To hide her mame from every eye, To give repentance to her lover, And wring his bofom — is to die. As me was... | |
| John Huddlestone Wynne - Advice columns - 1807 - 744 pages
...VViiac-art c.in wash hcr^uilt away ? ' The, only art her gui't to cover, To hide her shahie fr<nri 'every eye, To give repentance to her lover, And wring his bosom — is to die !' Ov: DRAMATIC So THOUGH a soliloquy in the perturbation oi passion is undoi:hu-cly natural, and inuerd... | |
| Oliver Goldsmith - 1820 - 212 pages
...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 die. As she was concluding the last stanza, to whkli an interruption in her voice from sorrow gave peculiar softness, the appearance of Mr. Thorn'hill's... | |
| Oliver Goldsmith - 1780 - 106 pages
...folly, And-inds too latí that men betray4 What charm tan iooth hfr melancholy,, What art can walh her guilt away ? The only art her guilt to cover, To hide her flume from ever)' eye, To give repentance to her lover, And wring his bofom— is to die. As ihe was... | |
| Ballads, English - 1781 - 384 pages
...folly,' And finds, too I >:r, that men betray) What charms can foothe her melancholy ? What art can waih her guilt away? The only art, her guilt to cover, To hide her flame from ev'ry eye, To give repentance to her lover, And wring hit bofom— is to die! SONG 95. X... | |
| Ballads, English - 1783 - 366 pages
...folly, And finds too late that men betray, What charm can footh her melancholy ? What art can wafh her guilt away ? The only art her guilt to cover, To hide her fhame from every eye, To give repentance to her lover, And wring his bofom, is— to 'die. LOVE-SONGS.... | |
| Oliver Goldsmith - 1791 - 206 pages
...folly. And finds too late that men betray, What charm can foothe her melancholy, What art can warn her guilt away ? The only art her guilt to cover, To hide her fhame from every eye, To give repentance to her lover, And wring his bofom —is, to die. THE THE TRAVELLER;... | |
| Oliver Goldsmith - 1792 - 252 pages
...folly, And finds too late that men betray, What charm can foothe her melancholy, What art can wafh her guilt away ? The only art her guilt to cover, To hide her fhame from every eye, To give repentance to her lover, And wring his bofom — is to die. As fhe was... | |
| Oliver Goldsmith - 1794 - 124 pages
...folly, And finds too late that men betray, What charm can foothe her melancholy,. What art can wafli her guilt away ? The only art her guilt to cover, To hide her fliame from every eye, To give repentance to her lover, And wring his bofom— is, to die. SONGS. O... | |
| Oliver Goldsmith - 1799 - 214 pages
...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,...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 sof'tru'ss,... | |
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