 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...  Waverley Novels: The monastery - Page 245by Sir Walter Scott, George Cruikshank - 1877Full view - About this book
 | Oliver Goldsmith - Poetry - 1800 - 129 pages
...ne'er see your graces, " As I hope to be sav'd! without thinking on asses." EDINBURGH, 175*. 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... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - Poetry - 1803 - 72 pages
...graces, " As I hope to be sav'd! without thinking on asses." Edinburgh, 1753. STANZAS ON WOMAN. VV HEN 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,... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith, John Aikin - English poetry - 1805 - 148 pages
...graces, " As I hope to be sav'd ! without thinking on asses." EDINBURGH, 1753. STANZAS WOMAN. \VHEN 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,... | |
 | Chaplet - 1805
...fainting soul ; Woman's the stranger's gen'ral blessing from sultry India to the I'.Jc. STANZAS ON WOMAN. -"When lovely woman stoops to folly, And finds too late that men hetray, What charms can soothe her melancholy. What heart can wash her gnilt away ? The only art her... | |
 | John Aikin - 1806 - 297 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... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1806 - 72 pages
...your graces, 14 As I hope to be sav'd ; without thinking on asses f Edinburgh, 1753. STANZAS ON WOMAN. 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... | |
 | Louisa Stuart Costello - 1809
...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... | |
 | Fiction - 1809 - 240 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... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith, Thomas Percy, Thomas Campbell - 1809
...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 men betray, What charm can soothe her melancholy, What art can wash her guilt away ? The only art her guilt to... | |
 | John Aikin, Robert Harding Evans - 1810 - 352 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... | |
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