...forc'd to die a maid ! WHEN LOVELY WOMAN STOOPS TO FOLLY. OLIVER GOLDSMITH. Born 1728— Died 1774. 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...

...PIRATE'S LEMAN. " When lovely woman stoopa to folly, And finds too late that men betray, What charms can soothe her melancholy, What art can wash her guilt away " The only an her guilt can cover, To hide her shame from every eye, To give repentance to her lover, And wring...

...P arierre J. CHAP. I. When lovely woman stoops to folly. And finds too late that men betray, \\ lut charm can soothe her melancholy, What art can wash her guilt away? Goldsmith. FIVE leagues northward of the city of Seville, there Was in the sixteenth century, as there...

...forc'd to die a maid ! WHEN LOVELY WOMAN STOOPS TO FOLLY. OLIVER GOLDSMITH. Born 1728— Died 1774When lovely woman stoops to folly, And finds too late that men betray, The only art her guilt to cover, To hide her shame from every eye, To give repentance to her lover,...

...Al» ANDALUSIAN TALK, FROM THE MISCELLANEOUS WOKKS ОГ CERVANTES. (For UK P arierreJ. CHAP. I. When lovely woman stoops to folly. And finds too late that men betray, \\ lut charm can soothe her melancholy, What art can wash her guilt away? Goldsmith. FIVE leagues northward...

...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 that...repentance to her lover, And wring his bosom — is to die. Glasgow's new woman neither defines her situation as comparable to the lovely woman's nor values Goldsmith's...

...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...to her lover, And wring his bosom — is to die.' Scarce had the Vicar of Wakefield made its appearance and been received with acclamation, than its...

...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 that...repentance to her lover, And wring his bosom — is to die. From THE DESERTED VILLAGE Sweet Aubum, loveliest village of the plain. Where health and plenty cheered...

...written. PART FOUR EXQUISITE CADAVERS THE EXQUISITE CADAVERS Women in Eighteenth-Century Fiction When lovely woman stoops to folly, And finds too late that...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...

...accurately in "The Vicar of Wakefield": The only art her guilt to cover, To hide her same from ev'ry eye, To give repentance to her lover And wring his bosom is — to die. The modern spinster does not consider death necessary in these circumstances. If she has had a good education,...