| John Aikin - Books and reading - 1806 - 346 pages
...character. Plainer words cannot be found than those which compose the following " Stanzas on Woman." 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 ? Th« only art her guilt to cover, To hide... | |
| John Aikin - Books and reading - 1807 - 320 pages
...Wo»man." 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 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 - 1808 - 216 pages
...Wfcen lovely woman stoops t And finds, too late, that men betray, What charm can sooth her melancholy f What art can wash her guilt away? The only art her guilt to cover, To bide her shame from ev'ry eye, To give repentance to her lover, And wring his bosom, is — to die.... | |
| 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...repentance to her lover, And wring his bosom— is to die. THE GIFT. TO IRIS, BOW-STREET, COVENT GARDES. ^AY, cruel Iris, pretty rake, Dear mercenary beauty,... | |
| Oliver Goldsmith - 1809 - 262 pages
...child, 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... | |
| Mrs. Costello - 1809 - 236 pages
...REES, AND OBMB, •PATERNOITER-ROW. •• •'" i-.V .'.'. THE SOLDIER'S ORPHAN: A TALE. CHAP. I. When lovely woman stoops to folly, And finds, too late, that men betray, What charm can sooth her melancholy, \Vhat art can wash her guilt away ? The only art, her guilt to cover, To hide... | |
| Oliver Goldsmith - 1809 - 102 pages
...That he fhould be, like Cupid, blind, To fave him from Narciffus' fate. ON WOMAN. lovely woman ftoops to folly, And finds too late that men betray, What charm can foothe her melancholv, What art can wafh her guilt away? The only art her guilt to cover, To hide her... | |
| John Aikin, Robert Harding Evans - Ballads, English - 1810 - 508 pages
...[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...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... | |
| Samuel Johnson - English poetry - 1810 - 656 pages
...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 ?...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. DESCRIPTION OF AN AUTHOR'S... | |
| John Aikin - Ballads, English - 1810 - 386 pages
...Lueinda, please no more, 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... | |
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