 | Robert Andrews - Quotations - 1997 - 666 pages
...dramatist, poet. Polly, in The Beggar's Opera, act 1 , sc. 8, air 8 (1728), ed. FW Bateson (1934). 4 When lovely woman stoops to folly, And finds too late...her melancholy, What art can wash her guilt away? OLIVER GOLDSMITH, (1728-1774) Anglo-Irish author, poet, playwright. Song sung by Olivia, in The Vicar... | |
 | Leslie A. Fiedler - Literary Criticism - 1997 - 524 pages
...Woman. The plaintive lines of Goldsmith, which reflect faithfully the sentimentality of Richardson, When lovely woman stoops to folly, And finds too late...charm can soothe her melancholy? What art can wash her tears away? The only art her guilt to cover, To hide her shame from ev'ry eye, To give repentance to... | |
 | John Hollander - Poetics - 1997 - 342 pages
...Goldsmith's famous song from The Vicar of W ake field, When lovely woman stoops to folly, And finds t<x> late that men betray, What charm can soothe her melancholy, What art can wash her guilt away?6 In the rather nasty treatment the poem gives to "the typist home at teatime" in "The Fire Sermon"... | |
 | Connie Robertson - Reference - 1998 - 686 pages
...seemed to me pretty plain, that they had more of love than matrimony in them. 4199 The Vicar ofWakefield r, but few thy voice; Take each man's censure, but...as thy purse can buy. But not expressed in fancy; GOLDWATER Barry 19094200 (accepting the presidential nomination) I would remind you that extremism... | |
 | Joanna Thornborrow, Shân Wareing - Language and languages - 1998 - 286 pages
...The nine-syllable lines end in unstressed syllables, forming double rhymes as discussed earlier: 32 When lovely woman stoops to folly, And finds too late...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,... | |
 | Connie Robertson - English wit and humor - 1998 - 404 pages
...seemed to me pretty plain, that they had more of love than matrimony in them. 1707 The Vicar ofWakefield When lovely woman stoops to folly And finds too late...her melancholy, What art can wash her guilt away? wit. GOLDWYNSam 1882-1974 1708 I read part of it all the way through. 1709 Chaplin is no businessman... | |
 | Connie Robertson - English wit and humor - 1998 - 404 pages
...seemed to me pretty plain, that they had more of love than matrimony in them. 1707 The Vicar ofWakefield When lovely woman stoops to folly And finds too late...betray, What charm can soothe her melancholy, What an can wash her guilt away? wit. GOLDWYNSam 1882-1974 1708 I read part of it all the way through. 1709... | |
 | James Russell Kincaid - Self-Help - 1998 - 372 pages
...any child. Are we denning the child's innocence in the way older societies denned women's virginity? 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 her... | |
 | Ashley Montagu - Feminism - 1999 - 340 pages
...the eighteenth century Oliver Goldsmith had a revealing solution to this problem in a poignant poem: When lovely woman stoops to folly And finds too late...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... | |
 | D. H. Lawrence - Literary Collections - 2002 - 738 pages
...lovely woman stoops to freedom Humorous reference to the song from The Vicar of Wakefield ( 1 766): 'When lovely woman stoops to folly, / And finds too late that men betray', by Oliver Goldsmith (1728-74). 457:4 a different way — See The world is a bundle of hay, Mankind... | |
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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... 
