 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1799 - 214 pages
...her danghter as before : « Do, my pretty Olivia », cried she, « let us have that little melancoly air your Papa was so fond of; your sister Sophy has...please your old father ». She complied in a manner 59 exquisitely pathetick as moved me : * VV HEW lovely-woman stoops to -folly, And finds too late that... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1803 - 192 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, To hide her... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - English poetry - 1805 - 264 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, To hide her... | |
 | John Aikin - Books and reading - 1806 - 346 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 cover, To hide... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - English fiction - 1807 - 326 pages
...loved her daughter as before. " Do, my pretty Olivia," cried she ; " let us have that little melancholy air your papa was so fond of ; your sister Sophy has...old father." She complied in a manner so exquisitely pathetick, as moved me. When lovely woman stoops to folly, And finds, too late, that me» betray, What... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1808 - 216 pages
...pretty Olivia,' cried she, ' let us have tlrat little melancholy air your papa was so fond of; yonr sister Sophy has already obliged us. Do, child, it will please your old father.' She complied in a mauner so exquisitely pathetic, as moved me. Wfcen lovely woman stoops t And finds, too late, that... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1809 - 262 pages
...loved her daughter as before. " Do, my pretty Olivia," cried she, " Let us have that little melancholy air your papa was so fond of ; your sister Sophy has...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... | |
 | Mrs. Costello - 1809 - 236 pages
...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 cover, To hide... | |
 | John Aikin - Ballads, English - 1810 - 330 pages
...smiles increase the wretch's woe ; And he who wants each other blessing In thce mus.t ever find a foe. 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, To hide... | |
 | John Aikin - Ballads, English - 1810 - 386 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 to cover, To hide... | |
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The only art her guilt to cover, To hide her shame from every eye, To give repentance to her lover, And wring his bosom, — is to die. 
