 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...  Poetical Works - Page 62by Oliver Goldsmith - 1806 - 72 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1766 - 286 pages
...father." She complied in a manner fo exquifitely pathetic as moved me. '\\7HEN lovely woman ftoops to folly, And finds too late that men betray, What charm can footh her melancholy, What art can warn her guilt away ? The only art her guilt to cover, To hide her... | |
 | John Huddlestone Wynne - 1807 - 744 pages
...VViiac-art c.in wash hcr^uilt away ? ' The, only art her gui't to cover, To hide her shahie fr<nri 'every eye, To give repentance to her lover, And wring his bosom — is to die !' Ov: DRAMATIC So THOUGH a soliloquy in the perturbation oi passion is undoi:hu-cly natural, and inuerd... | |
 | 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 her lover, And wring his bosom, is — to die. As she was concluding the last stanza, to whkli an interruption in her voice from sorrow gave peculiar... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1780 - 104 pages
...folly, And-inds too latí that men betray4 What charm tan iooth hfr melancholy,, What art can walh her guilt away ? The only art her guilt to cover, To hide her flume from ever)' eye, To give repentance to her lover, And wring his bofom— is to die. As ihe was... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1780 - 204 pages
...ly"d, The man recover'd of the bite, The dog it was that dy'd. N ON o MA N. W HEN lovely woman ftoops to folly, And finds too late that men betray, What charm can foothe her melancholy, What art can wafh her guilt away ? The only art her guilt to cover, To hide... | |
 | 1781 - 384 pages
...folly,' And finds, too I >:r, that men betray) What charms can foothe her melancholy ? What art can waih her guilt away? The only art, her guilt to cover, To hide her flame from ev'ry eye, To give repentance to her lover, And wring hit bofom— is to die! SONG 95. X... | |
 | 1783 - 366 pages
...But remember The lafs on the brow of the hill. SONG XIV. BY DR. GOLDSMITH. WHEN lovely woman floops to folly, And finds too late that men betray, What charm can footh her melancholy ? What art can wafh her guilt away ? The only art her guilt to cover, To hide... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1791 - 206 pages
...recover' d of the bite, The dog it was that dy'd. STANN ON WOMA ' N. • W HEN lovely woman ftoops to folly. And finds too late that men betray, What charm can foothe her melancholy, What art can warn her guilt away ? The only art her guilt to cover, To hide... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1792 - 310 pages
...ah! too charming maid; I'll give thee — to the devil. STANZAS ON WOMAN. WHEN lovely woman ftoops to folly, . . And finds too late that men betray} What charm can foothe her melancholy, • . What art can wafh her guilt away ? ' f The only art her guilt to cover,... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1792 - 252 pages
...old father.' She complied in a manner fo exquifitely pathetic, as moved me. WHEN lovely woman ftoops to folly, And finds too late that men betray, What charm can foothe her melancholy, What art can wafh her guilt away ? The only art her guilt to cover, To hide... | |
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