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... The English Poets: Addison to Blake - Página 377editado por - 1880Vista completa - Acerca de este libro
| Garland - 1836 - 246 páginas
...O heartfelt extasy ! She gives to honour, love, and me. OLIVER GOLDSMITH, Born 1 728, died 1774. . STANZAS ON WOMAN. WHEN lovely woman stoops to folly,...repentance to her lover, And wring his bosom is — to die. n:; JOHN CUNNINGHAM, Born 1729, died 1773. HOLIDAY GOWN. IN holiday gown, and my new-fangled hat, Last... | |
| Oliver Goldsmith - 1836 - 150 páginas
...light, That shew'd the rogues they lied ; The man recovered of the bite, The dog it was that died. STANZAS ON WOMAN. WHEN lovely woman stoops to folly,...to her lover, And wring his bosom — is, to die. PROLOGUE TO ZOBEIDE, A TRAGEDY. IN these bold times, when Learning's sons explore The distant climates,... | |
| Oliver Goldsmith - 1837 - 444 páginas
...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...repentance to her lover, And wring his bosom — is to die. As she was concluding the last stanza, to which an interruption in her voice from sorrow gave peculiar... | |
| Oliver Goldsmith, Sir James Prior - 1837 - 538 páginas
...Our modern bards ! why, what a pox Are they — but senseless stones and blocks. STANZAS ON WOMAN.(i' When lovely Woman stoops to folly, And finds too late...repentance to her lover, And wring his bosom — is to die.(f) ELEGY ON THE DEATH OF A MAD DOG.(2) Good people all, of every sort, Give ear unto my song;... | |
| Oliver Goldsmith - 1837 - 472 páginas
...That show'd the rogues they lied; The man recover'd of the bite, The dog it was that died. STANZAS OB WOMAN. WHEN lovely woman stoops to folly, And finds...eye, To give repentance to her lover, And wring his bosom—is to die. THE TRAVELLER; OR, A PROdPECT OF SOCIETY <* A POEM. FIRST PRINTED IN MDCCLXV. *... | |
| Oliver Goldsmith - 1837 - 536 páginas
...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...eye, To give repentance to her lover, And wring his bosom—is to die. As she was concluding the last stanza, to which an interruption in her voice from... | |
| Samuel Carter Hall - 1837 - 362 páginas
...mankind : As diff'rent good, by Art or Nature giv'n To diff'rent nations, makes their blessings ev'n. STANZAS ON WOMAN. WHEN lovely woman stoops to folly...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. O MEMORY ! thou fond... | |
| Samuel Carter Hall - 1837 - 448 páginas
...As diff'rent good, by Art or Nature giv'n To difTrent nations, makes their blessings ev'n. 8TANZA8 ON WOMAN. WHEN lovely woman stoops to folly And finds...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. SONO. O MEMORY ! tin... | |
| Oliver Goldsmith - 1838 - 544 páginas
...STANZAS ON WOMAN. WHEN lovely woman stoops to folly, And finds too late that men betray, What charms married already." — " You lie, like a rascal," returned...woman." " Indeed, begging your honour's pardon," repl THE TRAVELLER; OR, A PROSPECT OF SOCIETY. TO THE REV. HENRY GOLDSMITH. DEAR SIR, I AM sensible that... | |
| 1837 - 336 páginas
...have treated this subject differently: his morality was of another cast. Of the lost one he sa} s, The only art her guilt to cover, To hide her shame...repentance to her lover. And wring his bosom is — to die ! But these are trite lines, that would furnish but a sorry hint for the Anglo-French drama of our... | |
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