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... Tom Cringle's Log - Page 192by Michael Scott - 1834 - 384 pagesFull view - About this book
| John Aikin - Ballads, English - 1810 - 414 pages
...And finds too late that men betray, What charm can sooth her melancholy ? What art can wash her guirt away ? The only art her guilt to cover, To hide her...to her lover, And wring his bosom, is — to die. IE Li my Stephen that I die ; Let echoes to each other tell, Till the mournful accents fly To Strephon's... | |
| John Aikin - Ballads, English - 1810 - 386 pages
...The Muses droop, the Goths prevail, Adieu the sweets of Arno's vale. [GOLDSMITH.] 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... | |
| Samuel Johnson - English poetry - 1810 - 656 pages
...thinking on asses." Edinburgh, 1753. STANZAS Off WOMAN. FROM THE VICAR OF WAKEFIEtD. 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 - 1810 - 436 pages
...I hope to be sav<d, withont thinking on asses.' 1733: STANZAS ^ ON •• WOMAN. WHEN lovely woman stoops to folly, And finds too late that men betray, What charm ran soothe'her melancholy What art can wash her gnilt away! The only art her gnilt to cover, To hide... | |
| James Lawrence - 1811 - 274 pages
...his sentiments would not have perceived that he was only quizzing the company. " 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... | |
| Oliver Goldsmith - 1812 - 470 pages
...they lied The man recover'd of the bite, The dog it was that dy'd. STANZAS WOMAN. \VHEN lovely woman stoops to folly And finds too late that men betray,...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... | |
| Oliver Goldsmith - English poetry - 1813 - 124 pages
...charm can sooth her melancholy;, What art c*» wash kev guilt away* i4ie only art her guilt to cever, To hide her shame from /every eye, To give repentance to her lover, And wring his bosom....is to die. ;uorv TH» ORATORIO OF THE CAPTIVITY. THE wretch conderan'd with life to part,... | |
| Oliver Goldsmith - 1815 - 268 pages
...please your old rather." 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 art can wash her guilt away ? The only art her gnilt to cover, To hide her shame from every eye, To give repentance to her lover, And wring his bosom... | |
| 1816 - 612 pages
...lete that men betray ; What charm can soothe her nwlancbo'ly f VI hat art can wash her guilt away f The only art her guilt to cover. To hide her shame...her lover, < And wring his bosom — is— to die." His song from the Oratorio of the Captivity, " The wretch condemn 'd with life to part ;" and, " O... | |
| Mrs. Barbauld (Anna Letitia) - English literature - 1816 - 414 pages
...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... | |
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