 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
 | Oliver Goldsmith - English literature - 1840 - 504 pages
...child, it will please your old father." She complied in a manner so exquisitely pathetic aa 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 - 1841 - 398 pages
...Our modern bards ! why, what a pox Are they — but senseless stones and blocks ? 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... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1841 - 548 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 soothe her melancholy, What art can wash her guilt away? The only art her guilt to cover,... | |
 | Gilbert Abbott A'Beckett, Samuel Laman Blanchard - 1842 - 366 pages
...of this writer's powers. Among some fragments thrown loose in his desk, we find the following :— When lovely woman stoops to folly, And finds too late that men betray, There's such a charm in melancholy, I would not if I could be gay. Again : There's a beauty for ever... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1842 - 446 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 soothe her melancholy, What art can wash her guilt away? The only art her guilt to cover.... | |
 | George Cruikshank - English literature - 1841 - 390 pages
...of this writer's powers. Among some fragments thrown loose in his desk, we find the following :— When lovely woman stoops to folly, And finds too late that men betray, There's such a charm in melancholy, I would not if I could be gay. Again : There's a beauty for ever... | |
 | Walter Scott - 1844 - 670 pages
...notwithstanding the influence both of hunger and fatigue, Henry Warden retained his standing posture. When lovely woman stoops to folly, And finds too late that men betray5j ULIAN Avenel saw with surprise the demeanour of the reverend f stranger. " Beshrew me," he... | |
 | William Leslie Fletcher - 1844 - 220 pages
...still, I do not mean to sue thee, Nor deem thou this as my FAREWELL ! ©n an Unfortunate f)0ung H,atfj>. When lovely woman stoops to folly, And finds too late that men betray, What art can soothe her melancholy — What grief can wash her stains away ? When first we met so fair... | |
 | Love poetry - 1841 - 178 pages
...thee ; How small a part of time they share, That are so wondrous sweet and fair! 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... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1845 - 550 pages
...bite, The dog it was that died. Wikelicld," which via pubiished in the year I765. STANZAS ON WOMAN. 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... | |
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