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... Addison to Blake - Pagina 369a cura di - 1880Visualizzazione completa - Informazioni su questo libro
| John Aikin - 1810 - 330 pagine
...a foe. 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...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... | |
| John Aikin - 1810 - 414 pagine
...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... | |
| James Lawrence - 1811 - 274 pagine
...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...eye, To give repentance to her lover, And wring his bosom,...is to die." " What," cried Priscilla, " would you marry her still ?" " Why hot," said he,... | |
| Oliver Goldsmith - 1812 - 428 pagine
...will 1 please your old father.' She complied in a manner so exquisitely pathetic as moved me. WHEN WHEN lovely woman stoops to folly And finds too late...repentance to her lover, And wring his bosom — is to die. As she was concluding the last stanza, to which aninterruptionin her voice from sorrow gave peculiar... | |
| Oliver Goldsmith - 1812 - 470 pagine
...the rogues 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...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 - 1815 - 268 pagine
...child, it will 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...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 pagine
...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... | |
| Oliver Goldsmith - 1818 - 294 pagine
...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. E -, DESCRIPTION OF AN AUTHOR'S BED-CHAMBER. the Red Lion, staring o'er the... | |
| George William MacArthur Reynolds - 1817 - 192 pagine
...than he had entered it, but crouching and trembling like a lashed hound. CHAPTER XXVII. When lOTely woman stoops to folly, And finds too late that men...soothe her melancholy? What art can wash her guilt away ? GOLniMITH. Ssx months had now glided away since the commencement of Crawford's imposture on a credulous... | |
| Oliver Goldsmith - 1818 - 274 pagine
...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?...give repentance to her lover, And wring his. bosom, is—to die. LINES, ATTRIBUTED TO UK. GOLDSMITH; And inserted, in the Morning Chronicle of Avril 5,... | |
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