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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 Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction, Volume 25

1835 - 466 pages
...child of bliss, I may alike be blest nt last. EKORT PLAGIARISM, BY GOLDSMITH. (_To the Editor.) " When lovely woman stoops to folly, And finds too late that...to her lover. And wring his bosom, is — to die." Chappell, and increased a greate parte of the East ende of the saied halle, beside many other good...
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The Parterre of fiction, poetry, history [&c.]., Volume 2

1835 - 428 pages
...MISCELLANEOUS WORKS OF CERVANTES. (For the Parterre). CHAP. I. When lovely woman stoops lo folly, And finds tou late that men betray, What charm can soothe her melancholy, What art can wash her guilt away? Goldsmith. FIVE leagues northward of the city of Seville, there was in the sixteenth century, as there...
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The Songs of England and Scotland, Volume 1

Ballads, English - 1835 - 378 pages
...forc'd to die a maid ! 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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Tom Cringle's Log

Michael Scott - Napoleonic Wars, 1800-1815 - 1835 - 360 pages
...PIRATE'S LEMAN. " When lovely woman stoopa to folly, And finds too late that men betray, What charms can soothe her melancholy, What art can wash her guilt away " The only an her guilt can cover, To hide her shame from every eye, To give repentance to her lover, And wring...
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The Parterre, Volume 2

1835 - 428 pages
...Al» ANDALUSIAN TALK, FROM THE MISCELLANEOUS WOKKS ОГ CERVANTES. (For UK P arierreJ. CHAP. I. When lovely woman stoops to folly. And finds too late that men betray, \\ lut charm can soothe her melancholy, What art can wash her guilt away? Goldsmith. FIVE leagues northward...
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Oliver Goldsmith: The Critical Heritage

G. S. Rousseau - Literary Criticism - 1995 - 420 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...to her lover, And wring his bosom — is to die.' Scarce had the Vicar of Wakefield made its appearance and been received with acclamation, than its...
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The Columbia Anthology of British Poetry

Carl R. Woodring, James Shapiro - Literary Criticism - 1995 - 936 pages
...certainly with the vivacity of She Stoops to Conquer (1773). WHEN LOVELY WOMAN STOOPS TO FOLLY When lovely woman stoops to folly. And finds too late that...repentance to her lover, And wring his bosom — is to die. From THE DESERTED VILLAGE Sweet Aubum, loveliest village of the plain. Where health and plenty cheered...
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Ellen Glasgow: New Perspectives

Dorothy McInnis Scura - Literary Criticism - 1995 - 278 pages
...woman sings the following "melancholy air": WOMEN, FORM AND IDEA IN The Romantic Comedians 190 When lovely woman stoops to folly, And finds too late that...repentance to her lover, And wring his bosom — is to die. Glasgow's new woman neither defines her situation as comparable to the lovely woman's nor values Goldsmith's...
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French Dressing: Women, Men, and Ancien Régime Fiction

Nancy K. Miller - Language Arts & Disciplines - 1995 - 258 pages
...written. PART FOUR EXQUISITE CADAVERS THE EXQUISITE CADAVERS Women in Eighteenth-Century Fiction When lovely woman stoops to folly, And finds too late that...charm can soothe her melancholy? What art can wash her tears away? The only art her guilt to cover, To hide her shame from every eye, To give repentance to...
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The Conquest of Happiness

Bertrand Russell - Body, Mind & Spirit - 1996 - 196 pages
...accurately in "The Vicar of Wakefield": The only art her guilt to cover, To hide her same from ev'ry eye, To give repentance to her lover And wring his bosom is — to die. The modern spinster does not consider death necessary in these circumstances. If she has had a good...
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