 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1799 - 214 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...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 - English poetry - 1800 - 192 pages
...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...soothe her melancholy, What art can wash her guilt away ? The only art her guilt to cover, To hide her shame from ev'ry eye, To give repentance to her... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1803 - 192 pages
...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 shame...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... | |
 | John Aikin - Books and reading - 1806 - 346 pages
...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 her shame from...to her lover, And wring his bosom, is — to die. I confess, however, they have to me a charm beyond that of almost any piece of the kind with which... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1806 - 248 pages
...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...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... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - English fiction - 1807 - 326 pages
...too late, that me» betray, What charm can sooth her melancholy, What art can wash her guilt away ! The only art her guilt to cover, To hide her shame...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... | |
 | John Aikin - Books and reading - 1807 - 320 pages
...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 shame...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 - 1809 - 304 pages
...the rogues they ly'd ; The man recover'd of the bite, The dog it was that dy'd. STANZAS ON WOMAN. HEN lovely woman stoops to folly, And finds too late that...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... | |
 | John Aikin - Ballads, English - 1810 - 386 pages
...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 shame...to her lover, And wring his bosom, is — to die. 1 ELL my Stephen that I die ; Let echoes to each other tell, Till the mournful accents fly To Strephon's... | |
 | John Aikin - Ballads, English - 1810 - 330 pages
...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 shame...give repentance to her lover, And wring his bosom, is—to die.* LUCY, I think not of thy beauty ; GOLDSMITH. I praise not each peculiar grace : To see... | |
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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... 
