 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1840 - 372 Seiten
...moved me. When lovely woman sloops t6 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 c6ver, To hide her shame from ev'ry eye, To give repentance to her lover, And wring his bosom, is —... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1841 - 398 Seiten
...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...shame from every eye, To give repentance to her lover, Ajid wring his bosom, is — to die. ELEGY ON THE DEATH OF A MAD DOG. GOOD people all, of every sort,... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1841 - 548 Seiten
...STANZAS ON WOMAN. WHEN lovely woman stoops to folly, And rinds too late that men betray, What charms can soothe her melancholy, What art can wash her guilt...eye, To give repentance to her lover, And wring his bosora-^-is to die. THE TRAVELLER; OR, A PROSPECT OF SOCIETY. The, and the following poem, appeated... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1842 - 446 Seiten
...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...to her lover, And wring his bosom, — is to die. As she was concluding the last stanza, to which an interruption in her voice, from sorrow, gave peculiar... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith, John Aikin - 1842 - 322 Seiten
...me: — 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...guilt to cover, To hide her shame from every eye, As she was concluding the last stanza, to which an interruption in her voice, from sorrow, gave peculiar... | |
 | Marshall Brown - 1991 - 516 Seiten
..."When Lovely Woman Stoops to Folly" Olivia comes close to announcing the scheme she will soon employ: The only art her guilt to cover, To hide her shame...repentance to her lover, And wring his bosom — is to die. (chap. 24; 4: 136) There are lessons to be learned, conclusions to be drawn from all of these insertions,... | |
 | Bernard Marie Dupriez - 1991 - 572 Seiten
...without breaking eggheads' (Ken Tynan, in Brett, ed., The Faber Book of Parodies, pp. 179-80). Exx: 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? O. Goldsmith, The Vicar of Wakefield, ch. 29... | |
 | Edith P. Hazen - 1992 - 1172 Seiten
...ch. 17) BeLS; BLPA; FaBoBe; FaBoCh; FaBoCo; FaFP; FPL; GN; NA; NBLV; NOBE; NOEC; NOIV; OBNV; TEP 9 hou lovest well remains, (1. 131) 19 What thou lov'st (Fr. Ch. 24) AWP; BoLoP; ELP; FPL; GTBS; GTBS-P; HAP; HelP; LiTB; NOBE; NOEC; NoP; OBEV; Prim; SeCePo;... | |
 | A. David Moody - 1994 - 412 Seiten
...simply that death and guilt may be real experiences, but that death may purge guilt and redeem love. When lovely woman stoops to folly, And finds too late...repentance to her lover, And wring his bosom - is to die. This 'little melancholy air' is sung at her mother's request by the 'ruined' daughter as she sits on... | |
 | Dorothy McInnis Scura - 1995 - 278 Seiten
...young woman sings the following "melancholy air": WOMEN, FORM AND IDEA IN The Romantic Comedians 190 When lovely woman stoops to folly, And finds too late...repentance to her lover, And wring his bosom — is to die. Glasgow's new woman neither defines her situation as comparable to the lovely woman's nor values Goldsmith's... | |
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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... 
