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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... "
Poetical Works - Page 62
by Oliver Goldsmith - 1806 - 72 pages
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The Inn-keeper's Album

William Frederick Deacon - 1823 - 494 pages
...to sleep in the arm-chair while the young ones are romping about • * * * *, ROSALIE: STalr. " When lovely woman stoops to folly, And finds too late that...soothe her melancholy, What art can wash her guilt away ?" GOLDSMITH. IN the heart of South Wales, and in the neighbourhood of theyillageof Llangadock, there...
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The Novels of Sterne, Goldsmith, Dr. Johnson, Mackenzie, Horace Walpole, and ...

Laurence Sterne - 1823 - 764 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...
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The Vicar of Wakefield: A Tale

Oliver Goldsmith - 1823 - 768 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 chami can sooth her melancholy ? What art can wash her guilt away ? The only art her guilt to cover,...
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Five Years' Residence in the Canadas: Including a Tour Through ..., Volume 1

Edward Allen Talbot - Canada - 1824 - 848 pages
...guardian*. On this subject, as well as on many others, they differ widely from our inimitable poet : When lovely woman stoops to folly, And finds too late that...give repentance to her lover, And wring his bosom, is—to die. Such a sentiment as this would in Canada bo regarded merely as the wild effusion of some...
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The Poetical Works of John Milton ...

John Milton - 1824 - 510 pages
...without thinking on asses.' Edinburgh, 17X: ON WOMAN. WHEN lovely woman stoops to folly, And find« too late that men betray, What charm can soothe her...every eye To give repentance to her lover. And wring hie bosom— i», to die. DESCRIPTION AUTHOR'S BED-CHAMBER. WHERE the Red Lion, staring o'er the way,...
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The Mysteries of St. Clair; Or, Mariette Mouline ...

Catherine George Ward - 1824 - 720 pages
...a greatly admired poet too true a picture of her fate : « When lovely woman stoops to folly, Anil finds, too late, that men betray ; What charm can...art her guilt to cover, To hide her shame from every rye, 27 4 i To give repentance to her lover, And wring his bosom— is, to die." But Mariette did not...
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The cabinet; or The selected beauties of literature [ed. by J ..., Volume 1

Cabinet - Literature - 1824 - 440 pages
...mutely eloquent, And hail thee brightest of the NINE ! ROSALIE. From " tee Innkeeper's Album." " When lovely Woman stoops to folly, And finds too late that...soothe her melancholy, what art can wash her guilt away ?" GOLDSMITH. IN the heart of South Wales, and in the neighbourhood of the village of Llangadock, there...
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Historical Romances of the Author of Waverley, Volume 15

Walter Scott - 1824 - 408 pages
...influence both of hunger and fatigue, Henry Warden retained his standing posture. CHAPTER XIV. 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...
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The Miscellaneous Works of Oliver Goldsmith: Miscellaneous poems. The good ...

Oliver Goldsmith - English literature - 1825 - 476 pages
...the rogues they lied ; The man recover'd of the bite, The dog it was that died. STANZAS WOMAN. WHEN lovely woman stoops to folly, And finds too late that...repentance to her lover, And wring his bosom — is to die. THE TRAVELLER; OR, A PROSPECT OF SOCIETY: A POEM. FIRST PRINTED IN MDCCLXV. TO THE REV. HENRY GOLDSMITH....
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The Miscellaneous Works of Oliver Goldsmith: With an Account of ..., Volume 1

Oliver Goldsmith - 1825 - 440 pages
...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...What art can wash her guilt away ? The only art her jjuilt to cover, To hide her shame from every eye, To give repentance to her lover, And wring his bosom...
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