 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
 | Thomas Curtis (of Grove house sch, Islington) - 414 pages
...dread abode ; There they alike in trembling hope repose, The botom of his father and his God. Gray. The only art her guilt to cover. To hide her shame...from every eye, To give repentance to her lover. And wriug his botom is — to die. Goldmnth. Not the soft sighs of vernal gales, The fragrance of the Bowery... | |
 | John Trotter Brockett - English language - 1829 - 368 pages
...taken of her by a faithless swain, without affording her a legitimate right to his protection, — When lovely woman stoops to folly, And finds too late that men betray. ACKERSPRIT, the premature sprouting of a potatoe, the germination of grain. V. Skin. Jam. and Wilb.... | |
 | John Trotter Brockett - English language - 1829 - 364 pages
...of her by a faithless swain, without affording her a legitimate right to his protection, — "When lovely woman stoops to folly, And finds too late that men betray. ACKERSPRIT, the premature sprouting of a potatoe, the germination of grain. V. Skin. Jam. and Wilb.... | |
 | Walter Scott - 1830 - 372 pages
...influence both of hunger and fatigue, Henry Warden retained his standing posture. CHAPTER VIII. 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, " these... | |
 | K. G. Hall - Literary Criticism - 1993 - 196 pages
...verse: 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. 21 This is a reiteration of the 'had she but died!' sentiment expressed by the Vicar. The idea that... | |
 | Carl R. Woodring, James Shapiro - Literary Criticism - 1995 - 936 pages
...certainly with the vivacity of She Stoops to Conquer ( 1 773). WHEN LOVELY WOMAN STOOPS TO FOLLY When lovely woman stoops to folly. And finds too late that...repentance to her lover. And wring his bosom — is to die. From THE DESERTED VILLAGE Sweet Aubum, loveliest village of the plain, Where health and plenty cheered... | |
 | Dorothy McInnis Scura - Literary Criticism - 1995 - 278 pages
...woman sings the following "melancholy air": WOMEN, FORM AND IDEA IN The Romantic Comedians 190 When lovely woman stoops to folly, And finds too late that...repentance to her lover, And wring his bosom — is to die. Glasgow's new woman neither defines her situation as comparable to the lovely woman's nor values Goldsmith's... | |
 | B. C. Southam - Literary Criticism - 1996 - 292 pages
...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 his bosom — is to die.' /. 257: Eliot refers us to... | |
 | Robert Andrews - Language Arts & Disciplines - 1997 - 666 pages
...dramatist, poet. Polly, in The Beggar's Opera, act 1 , sc. 8, air 8 (1728), ed. FW Bateson (1934). 4 When lovely woman stoops to folly, And finds too late that...her melancholy, What art can wash her guilt away? OLIVER GOLDSMITH, (1728-1774) Anglo-Irish author, poet, playwright. Song sung by Olivia, in The Vicar... | |
 | John Hollander - Education - 1997 - 342 pages
...altered quotation of the first line of Oliver Goldsmith's famous song from The Vicar of Wakefield, When lovely woman stoops to folly, And finds too late that...soothe her melancholy, What art can wash her guilt away?6 In the rather nasty treatment the poem gives to "the typist home at teatime" in "The Fire Sermon"... | |
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