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... Kottabos: College Miscellany - Page 1841869Full view - About this book
| Mrs. Barbauld (Anna Letitia) - English literature - 1816 - 414 pages
...justice. We do pray for mercy ; And that same pray'r doth teach as all to render The deeds of mercy. When lovely woman stoops to folly, And finds, too late, that men betray, What charm can sooth her melancholy ? What art can wash her stains away ? The only art her guilt to cover, To hide... | |
| Oliver Goldsmith - English poetry - 1816 - 240 pages
...shall ne'er see your graces, " As I hope to be sav'd ! without thinking on asses." STANZAS 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? The only art her guilt to cover, To hide her... | |
| George William MacArthur Reynolds - 1817 - 192 pages
...steps than he had entered it, but crouching and trembling like a lashed hound. CHAPTER XXVII. When lovely woman stoops to folly, And finds too late that...soothe her melancholy? What art can wash her guilt away ? GOLDIMITH. Six months had now glided away since the commencement of Crawford's imposture on a credulous... | |
| Oliver Goldsmith - Book ornamentation - 1817 - 192 pages
...civil: I'll give thee—ah! too charming maid, I'll give thee—to the devil. 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 ? The only art her guilt to cover, To hide her... | |
| Oliver Goldsmith - 1818 - 294 pages
...1753. STANZAS ON WOMAN. \ \ ; n A lovely woman stoops to folly, And finds too late that men hetray, What charm can soothe her melancholy. What art can...every eye, To give repentance to her lover. And wring bis bosom —is, to die. DESCRIPTION OF AN AUTHOR'S BED-CHAMBER. the Red Lion, staring o'er the way,... | |
| Oliver Goldsmith - 1818 - 274 pages
...charming maid, I'll give thee—to the devil. 1 STANZAS ON WOMAN. FROM THE VICAR OF WAKEFIKLB. 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 her... | |
| Oliver Goldsmith - English poetry - 1819 - 120 pages
...men bt tray, Whal charm cau soothe her inrkmdiolly, What art cau wash her guilt away ? The only arl her guilt to cover, • To hide her shame from every eye, To give repentance to her lover, ADC! wring his bosom — is, to die. EPITAPH ON DR. PARNELL. THIS ton.b inscrib'd to gentle Parnell's... | |
| Oliver Goldsmith - English literature - 1820 - 488 pages
...the rogues they lied, The man recover'd of the bite, The dog it was that died. STANZAS ON WOMAN. WHEN lovely woman stoops to folly And finds too late that...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. THE TRAVELLER; OR, A... | |
| English literature - 1820 - 406 pages
...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 her... | |
| Sir Walter Scott - Scotland - 1820 - 350 pages
...the influence both of hunger and fatigue, Henry Warden retained his standing posture. CHAPTER XL When lovely woman stoops to folly, And finds too late that men betray— JULIAN AVENEL saw with surprise the demeanour of the reverend stranger. ** Beshrew me," he said, "... | |
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