| Oliver Goldsmith - 1820 - 212 pages
...can wash her guilt away? • ' J ' • '.!• .• The only art her guilt to eov«fr, .•;,». "''rt To hide her shame from every eye, ', To give repentance...to die. As she was concluding the last stanza, to whkli an interruption in her voice from sorrow gave peculiar softness, the appearance of Mr. Thorn'hill's... | |
| Oliver Goldsmith - 1799 - 214 pages
...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...lover, And wring his bosom = is to die. As she was conclnding the last stanza, to which aninterrnption in her voice from sorrow gave peculiar sof'tru'ss,... | |
| Oliver Goldsmith - English poetry - 1800 - 192 pages
...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 ev'ry eye, To give repentance to her lover, And wring his bosom — is, to die. ON THE TAKING OF QUEBEC.... | |
| Oliver Goldsmith - 1803 - 192 pages
...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 her lover, And wring his bosom.. ..is, to die. DESCRIPTION AUTHOR'S BED-CHAMBER. WHERE the Red Lion staring o'er the way, Invites each passing stranger... | |
| Charles Henry Wilson - English ballads and songs - 1803 - 228 pages
...stoops to folly, And finds, too late, that man betray ; What charms can soothe her melancholy ? What art can wash her guilt away? The 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 ! CORN RIGGS ARE BONNY.... | |
| Oliver Goldsmith - English poetry - 1805 - 264 pages
...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 shame from ev'ry eye, To give repentance to her lover, And wring his bosom — is, to die. DESCRIPTION AUTHOR'S... | |
| Oliver Goldsmith - 1806 - 248 pages
...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 her lover. And wring his bosom— is— to die. DESCRIPTION OF AN AUTHOR'S BEDCHAMBER. he Red Lion staring o'er the way, * * Invites each passing stranger... | |
| John Aikin - Books and reading - 1806 - 346 pages
...late that men betray, What charm can sooth her melancholy, What art can wash her guilt away ? Th« only art her guilt to cover, To hide her shame from...to her lover, And wring his bosom, is — to die. I confess, however, they have to me a charm beyond that of almost any piece of the kind with which... | |
| Oliver Goldsmith - English fiction - 1807 - 326 pages
...woman stoops to folly, And finds, too late, that me» betray, What charm can sooth her melancholy, What art can wash her guilt away ! The only art her guilt...in her voice, from sorrow, gave peculiar softness, the appearance of Mr. Thornhill's equipage, at a distance, alarmed us all, but particularly increased... | |
| John Aikin - Books and reading - 1807 - 320 pages
...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 her lover, And wring h"is bosom, is — to die. I confess, however, they have to me acharm beyond that of almost any piece of the kind with which I... | |
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