 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 247by Walter Scott - 1877Full view - About this book
 | John Trotter Brockett - English language - 1829 - 368 pages
...taken of her by a faithless swain, without affording her a legitimate right to his protection, — • When lovely woman stoops to folly, And finds too late that men betray. ACKERSPRIT, the premature sprouting of a potatoe, the germination of grain. V. Skin. Jam. and Wilb.... | |
 | Thomas F. Walker - English poetry - 1830 - 256 pages
...your graces, As I hope 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... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1830 - 544 pages
...child, it will please your old father." She complied in a manner so exquisitely pathetic as miedme. What charm can soothe her melancholy, What art can wash her guilt awayl The only art her guilt to cover,... | |
 | David C. Bunnell - Lake Erie, Battle of, 1813 - 1831 - 206 pages
...discovery of the place of her 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... | |
 | R. Wilmot - 1832 - 368 pages
...consequence of her obstinacy, so that she has not one friend left, and I may say with the poet — " ' When lovely woman stoops to folly, And finds, too late, that men betray, What art can soothe her melancholy ? What dye can wash her sins away ? " ' The only way her guilt to... | |
 | Michael Scott - Cuba - 1833 - 400 pages
...that dark pool, and the scenes I witnessed there that day and night. CHAPTER II. THE PIRATE'S LEMAN. " When lovely woman stoops to folly, And finds too late that men betray, What charm ran soothe her melancholy, What art can wash her guilt away ? " The only art her guilt can... | |
 | 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
...Primrose had to think 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... | |
 | 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
...Primrose had to think 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... | |
 | 1835 - 428 pages
...LADIES: 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... | |
 | 1835 - 466 pages
...other 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 men betray. What charm can soothe her melancholy, — What art can wash her guilt away ? " The only art her guilt... | |
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