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
| Washington Irving - American literature - 1851 - 402 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 men betray, • What charm can soothe her melancholy, What art can wash her guilt away 1 The only art her guilt... | |
| Washington Irving - 1851 - 400 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 men betray, What charm can soothe her melancholy, What art can wash her guilt away ? The only art her guilt to... | |
| Oliver Goldsmith - 1851 - 162 pages
...this time I shall ne'er see your graces, As I hope to be saved ! without thinking on asses.' 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... | |
| Oliver Goldsmith - 1851 - 160 pages
...this time I shall ne'er see your graces, As I hope to be saved ! without thinking on asses.' 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 t The only art her guilt to... | |
| Oliver Goldsmith - Irish literature - 1851 - 476 pages
...shall know thnu conquerest, though dead! Since from thy tomb a thousand heroes rise. STANZAS ON WOMAN. WHEN lovely woman stoops to folly, And finds too late that men betray, What charm can sooth her melancholy 1 What art can wash her guilt away 1 • Thlt gentleman waa educated... | |
| Oskar Ludwig Bernhard Wolff - English poetry - 1852 - 438 pages
...diffrent good, by Art or Nature giv'n To dirTrent nations, makes their blessings ev'n. 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,... | |
| Vedeha (Thera) - Sinhalese language - 1852 - 560 pages
...WOMAN. «n rf Q TO an 6 & $ ^Q 8 <S e, eaScn tf<.Ocs>'t}-rf3rt,Q© Q «a 8 <j 89gts<J8S>O tSfoo 9 8 Q " When lovely woman stoops to folly, And finds too late that men betray; What charms can soothe her melancholy, What art can wash her guilt away? The only art her guilt to... | |
| C. Gough - 1853 - 414 pages
...the world, and yet flourishes, after ten years' fashion. Such was its origin. SONG. A MELANCHOLY AIB. 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 ? Ihe only art her guilt to... | |
| William Collins - English poetry - 1854 - 430 pages
...showed the rogues they lied : The man recovered of the bite, The dog it was that died. STANZAS ON WOMAN. WHEN lovely woman stoops to folly, And finds too late that men betray — The only art her guilt to cover, To hide her shame from every eye, To give repentance to her lover,... | |
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