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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... "
Classical and Foreign Quotations,law Terms and Maxims,proverbs,mottoes ... - Page 377
by William Francis Henry King - 1887 - 608 pages
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The Grail: A Casebook

Dhira B. Mahoney - Arthurian romances - 2000 - 622 pages
...the gramophone. (11. 253-256) The lines from The Vicar ofWakefield which Eliot is parodying begin: When lovely woman stoops to folly. And finds too late...her melancholy? What art can wash her guilt away? and conclude with the observation that the only "art her guilt to cover" is "to die." Again the contrast...
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Doctor Leeds' Selection of Popular Epic Recitations for Minstrel and Stage Use

Robert X. Leeds - American poetry - 1999 - 366 pages
...the hall. S TO OPS TO FOIiY Oliver Goldsmith When lovely woman stoops to folly, And finds too late 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....
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Writing Unseen Commentaries: A Student Help Book

H. S. Toshack - Literary Criticism - 2001 - 135 pages
...popularised by Queen Mary. I think she was God in drag. (Nancy Banks-Smith in The Guardian newspaper) K When lovely woman stoops to folly And finds too late...charm can soothe her melancholy? What art can wash her tears away? (Woman Oliver Goldsmith, 1728-1774) L To be buried in lava and not turn a hair, it is then...
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Women, Writing, and the Industrial Revolution

Susan Zlotnick - Literary Criticism - 2001 - 346 pages
...thoughtless moment I accepted him as my friend and protector, but, to use the words of a departed poet — 'When lovely woman stoops to folly, And finds too late that men betray, What can sooth her melancholy, What can wash her guilt away? The only art her guilt to cover, To hide her...
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Oxford Illustrated Companion to Medicine

19?? - 918 pages
...'it will be read as long as the English language exists', and which includes the lines which begin: When lovely woman stoops to folly And finds too late that men betray He also wrote She stoops to conquer, a stage comedy in a different vein. Grainger, James (?i72i-6o)....
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Civil Wars: American Novelists and Manners, 1880-1940

Susan Goodman - History - 2003 - 234 pages
...unrepentant heroine of a seduced-andabandoned story. The novel's epigraph comes from Oliver Goldsmith: "When lovely woman stoops to folly, / And finds too...her melancholy? / What art can wash her guilt away?" For Glasgow, the answer to Goldsmith's question is simple: time. In Aunt Agatha's day, the "unwritten...
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La terra desolata

Thomas Stearns Eliot - Poetry - 2003 - 188 pages
...alternativa alla 253. Nel romanzo di Goldsmith, cosė canta Olivia nel luogo in cui era stata sedotta: When lovely woman stoops to folly And finds too late...her melancholy, What art can wash her guilt away? 257. Eliot rinvia ai suoi vv. 191-192. Cfr. nostra nota ad locuni. 279. Leicester era il Conte favorito...
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The Waste Land and Other Poems

T. S. Eliot - Poetry - 2003 - 148 pages
...underworld (Homer, Odyssey, XI). 24. When . . . folly: the song in Goldsmith's Vicar of Wakefield (1766): "When lovely woman stoops to folly, / And finds too...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...
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A Rhapsody of Love and Spirituality

David J. Fekete - Family & Relationships - 2003 - 314 pages
...by a false lover. She sings a song, one evening, about false love from which Eliot borrows a line: 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,...
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The Copywrights: Intellectual Property and the Literary Imagination

Paul K. Saint-Amour - Law - 2003 - 306 pages
...does he mean? Does he mean to say he has ever met with any one of these lines before? 3 [UNTTTLED] When lovely woman stoops to folly, And finds too late that men betray, There's such a charm in melancholy, I would not if I could be gay. 4 [UNTITLED] There's a beauty for...
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