 | John Aikin - 1810 - 414 sidor
...please no more, The Muses droop, the Goths prevail, Adieu the sweets of Arno's vale. [GOLDSMITH.] W HEN lovely woman stoops to folly, 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... | |
 | James Lawrence - 1811 - 274 sidor
...that a stranger to 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 - 428 sidor
...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 sidor
...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 - 1813 - 124 sidor
...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 sidor
...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 sidor
...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) - 1816 - 414 sidor
...justice. We do pray 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... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1816 - 240 sidor
...your graces, ' ' As I hope to be sav'd ! without thinking on asses." EDINBURGH, 1753. STANZAS 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 ? The only art her guilt to cover, To hide her... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1818 - 294 sidor
...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... | |
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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... 
