 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1842 - 446 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...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,... | |
 | Gilbert Abbott A'Beckett, Samuel Laman Blanchard - 1842 - 366 pages
...of this writer's powers. Among some fragments thrown loose in his desk, we find the following :— 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. Again : There's a beauty for ever... | |
 | George Cruikshank - Caricatures and cartoons - 1841 - 392 pages
...of this writer's powers. Among some fragments thrown loose in his desk, we find the following :— 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. Again : There's a beauty for ever... | |
 | Walter Scott - 1844 - 670 pages
...notwithstanding the influence both of hunger and fatigue, Henry Warden retained his standing posture. When lovely woman stoops to folly, And finds too late that men betray5j ULIAN Avenel saw with surprise the demeanour of the reverend f stranger. " Beshrew me," he... | |
 | Edith P. Hazen - Literary Criticism - 1992 - 1172 pages
...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 The only art her guilt to cover, To hide her shame from every eye, To give repentance to her lover,... | |
 | A. David Moody - Literary Criticism - 1994 - 412 pages
...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...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,... | |
 | Dorothy McInnis Scura - Literary Criticism - 1995 - 278 pages
...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...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,... | |
 | G. S. Rousseau - Literary Criticism - 1995 - 420 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...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,... | |
 | Carl R. Woodring, James Shapiro - Literary Criticism - 1995 - 936 pages
...and certainly with the vivacity of She Stoops to Conquer (1773). WHEN LOVELY WOMAN STOOPS TO FOLLY 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,... | |
 | Nancy K. Miller - Language Arts & Disciplines - 1995 - 258 pages
...is written. PART FOUR EXQUISITE CADAVERS THE EXQUISITE CADAVERS Women in Eighteenth-Century Fiction 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 every eye, To give repentance to... | |
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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... 
