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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... "
The vicar of Wakefield [by O. Goldsmith]. 2 vols. [in 1]. - Page 147
by Oliver Goldsmith - 1792
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Select British Poets: Containing the Works of Goldsmith, Thomson, Gray ...

Thomas F. Walker - English poetry - 1830 - 256 pages
...to be sav'd! without thinking on asses/' Edinburgh, 1753. 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 ? The only art her guilt to cover " To hide...
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The Miscellaneous Works of Oliver Goldsmith: With an Account of His Life and ...

Oliver Goldsmith - 1830 - 544 pages
...your old father." She complied in a manner so exquisitely pathetic as miedme. When lovely woman stoops l soothe her melancholy, What art can wash her guilt awayl The only art her guilt to cover, To hide her...
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The Travels and Adventures of David C. Bunnell: During Twenty-three Years of ...

David C. Bunnell - Lake Erie, Battle of, 1813 - 1831 - 206 pages
...retreat. This scene brought to. mind the following beautiful lines : — <; 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 ?" I remained in Charleston until I had spent...
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Tom Cringle's Log: Second Series, Volume 2

Michael Scott - English fiction - 1833 - 254 pages
...Tam—ye're fou, man." "Oh! Buenos Noches." CHAPTER XV. « THE PIBATE'S LEMAN. • " 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 can cover, To hide her...
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The Quarterly Review, Volume 50

William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray IV, Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle) - English literature - 1834 - 590 pages
...when that fair desolate sung those never to be forgotten stanzas : — • 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...
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The Quarterly Review, Volume 50

William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, John Murray, Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle), George Walter Prothero - English literature - 1834 - 600 pages
...of, when that fair desolate sung those never to be forgotten stanzas : — ' 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...
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The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction, Volume 25

1835 - 466 pages
...alike be blest nt last. EKORT PLAGIARISM, BY GOLDSMITH. (_To the Editor.) " 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...
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The Songs of England and Scotland, Volume 1

Ballads, English - 1835 - 378 pages
...WHEN LOVELY WOMAN STOOPS TO FOLLY. OLIVER GOLDSMITH. Born 1728— Died 1774. 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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A Garland of Love, Wreathed of Pleasant Flowers, Gathered in the Field of ...

Garland - English poetry - 1836 - 246 pages
...love, and me. OLIVER GOLDSMITH, Born 1 728, died 1774. . STANZAS ON WOMAN. 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...
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The miscellaneous works of Oliver Goldsmith, with an account of ..., Volume 2

Oliver Goldsmith - 1837 - 472 pages
...The man recover'd of the bite, The dog it was that died. STANZAS OB WOMAN. 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...
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