 | Jane Austen - Fiction - 2004 - 458 pages
...Vicar of Wakefield, vol. II, ch. V. The lines are from a song sung by the Vicar's daughter, Olivia: '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 lover,... | |
 | John Durand - Fiction - 2005 - 516 pages
...a little piece by Goldsmith. He had it by heart now, and tried it quietly to himself for pleasure: 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... | |
 | Lowell B. Komie - Chicago (Ill.) - 2004 - 392 pages
...me I am not. Men betray women with their assurances. 1 know poem by English poet Oliver Goldsmith. 'When lovely woman stoops to folly and finds too late that men betray.'" "Do you really think I am betraying you?" "I will make some tea." She went to the kitchen and he followed.... | |
 | T. S. Eliot - Literary Criticism - 2006 - 300 pages
...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 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... | |
 | Elizabeth Kantor - Literary Criticism - 2006 - 278 pages
...of horns and motors, which shall bring / Sweeney to Mrs. Porter in the spring."8 Oliver Goldsmith's When lovely woman stoops to folly, And finds too late...her melancholy, What art can wash her guilt away? becomes When lovely woman stoops to folly and Paces about her room again, alone, She smoothes her hair... | |
 | Colin Bingham - Social Science - 2006 - 428 pages
...honour": "I am ready, my dear Lucy, to give you satisfaction — if you think there is any in marriage." 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,... | |
 | Walter Scott - Fiction - 2006 - 330 pages
...notwithstanding the influence both of hunger and fatigue, Henry Warden retained his standing posture. Chapter XXV When lovely woman stoops to folly, And finds too late that men betrayJulian Avenel saw with surprise the demeanour of the reverend stranger. "Beshrew me," he said,... | |
 | C J Ackerley - Literary Criticism - 2007 - 97 pages
...Calamities', she returns to the honeysuckle bank where first she met her lover, and sings a melancholy air: When lovely woman stoops to folly, And finds too late that men betray, What charm can sooth her melancholy, What art can was her guilt away? The only art her guilt to cover, To hide her... | |
 | James R. Simmons, Jr - Biography & Autobiography - 2007 - 500 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 [e] her melancholy, What can wash her guilt away? The only art her guilt to cover, To hide... | |
 | Lea Jacobs - Performing Arts - 2008 - 373 pages
...direct frontal attacks. Leslie Fiedler contrasts Oliver Goldsmith's song from The Vicar of Wake field, When lovely woman stoops to folly, And finds too late that men hetray, What charm can soothe her melancholy? What art can wash her tears away? The only art her guilt... | |
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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... 
