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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... "
What Men Have Said about Woman: A Collection of Choice Sentences - Page 112
by Henry Southgate - 1866 - 321 pages
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The Works of the English Poets, from Chaucer to Cowper: Including ..., Volume 16

Samuel Johnson - English poetry - 1810 - 656 pages
...WAKEFIEtD. 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 ?...only art her guilt to cover, To hide her shame from ev'ry eye, To give repentance to her lover, And wring his bosom — is, to die. DESCRIPTION OF AN AUTHOR'S...
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Essays on Song-writing: With a Collection of Such English Songs as are Most ...

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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Vocal Poetry: Or, A Select Collection of English Songs. To which is Prefixed ...

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...
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Essays on Song-writing: With a Collection of Such English Songs as are Most ...

John Aikin - Ballads, English - 1810 - 414 pages
...please no more, The Muses droop, the Goths prevail, Adieu the sweets of Arno's vale. [GOLDSMITH.] W HEN lovely woman stoops to folly, And finds too late that men betray, What charm can sooth her melancholy ? What art can wash her guirt away ? The only art her guilt to cover, To hide...
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Essays, Poems and Plays: With a Preface

Oliver Goldsmith - 1810 - 436 pages
...see yonr graces, As I hope to be sav<d, withont thinking on asses.' 1733: STANZAS ^ ON •• WOMAN. WHEN lovely woman stoops to folly, And finds too late that men betray, What charm ran soothe'her melancholy What art can wash her gnilt away! The only art her gnilt to cover, To hide...
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The Empire of the Nairs; Or, The Rights of Women: An Utopian Romance, in ...

James Lawrence - 1811 - 274 pages
...that a stranger to his sentiments would not have perceived that he was only quizzing the company. " 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 Miscellaneous Works of Oliver Goldsmith

Oliver Goldsmith - 1812 - 428 pages
...will 1 please your old father.' She complied in a manner so exquisitely pathetic as moved me. WHEN WHEN lovely woman stoops to folly And finds too late...repentance to her lover, And wring his bosom — is to die. As she was concluding the last stanza, to which aninterruptionin her voice from sorrow gave peculiar...
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The Miscellaneous Works of Oliver Goldsmith, M.B.

Oliver Goldsmith - 1812 - 470 pages
...the rogues they lied The man recover'd of the bite, The dog it was that dy'd. STANZAS WOMAN. \VHEN lovely woman stoops to folly And finds too late that...only art her guilt to cover, To hide her shame from ev'ry eye, To give repentance to her lover, And wring his bosom — is to die. THE TRAVELLER; OR, A...
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The Poetical Works of Oliver Goldsmith ...: To which is Prefixed an Account ...

Oliver Goldsmith - English poetry - 1813 - 124 pages
...perhaps, in your habits of thinking amiss, Y«u may make a mistake and think this. &TANZAS ON WOMAft. When lovely woman stoops to folly, And finds too late that men betray, Wliat charm can sooth her melancholy;, What art c*» wash kev guilt away* i4ie only art her guilt to...
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The vicar of Wakefield. Whittingham's ed

Oliver Goldsmith - 1815 - 268 pages
...child, it will please your old rather." She complied in a manner so exquisitely pathetic as moved me. When lovely woman stoops to folly, And finds too late...What art can wash her guilt away ? The only art her gnilt to cover, To hide her shame from every eye, To give repentance to her lover, And wring his bosom...
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