...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...

...have treated this subject differently: his morality was of another cast. Of the lost one he saj 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...

...Are they — but senseless stones and blocks. STANZAS ON WOMAN. WHEN lovely woman stoops to folly, And finds too late that men betray, What charm can...to her lover, And wring his bosom, is — to die. ELEGY ON THE DEATH OF A MAD DOG. GOOD people all, of every sort, Give ear unto my song, And if you...

...without thinking on asses.' Edinburgh, 1753. STANZAS ON WOMAN.1 WHEN lovely woman stoops to folly, And finds too late that men betray, What charm can...to her lover, And wring his bosom — is, to die. A DESCRIPTION OF AN AUTHOR'S BEDCHAMBER.' WHERE the Red Lion staring o'er the way, Invites each passing...

...terris pulsus et exul Amor. HH Stanzas on Woman. — GOLDSMITH. When lovely woman stoops to folly, And finds, too late, that men betray, What charm can...guilt to cover, To hide her shame from every eye, To bring repentance to her lover, And wring his bosom— is — to die. From the Vicar of Wakefield. Si...

...real experiences, but that death may purge guilt and redeem love. When lovely woman stoops to folly, And finds too late that men betray, What charm can...repentance to her lover, And wring his bosom - is to die. This 'little melancholy air' is sung at her mother's request by the 'ruined' daughter as she sits on...

...She Stoops to Conquer (1773). WHEN LOVELY WOMAN STOOPS TO FOLLY When lovely woman stoops to folly. And finds too late that men betray. What charm can...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...

...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...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...

..."melancholy air": WOMEN, FORM AND IDEA IN The Romantic Comedians 190 When lovely woman stoops to folly, And finds too late that men betray, What charm can...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...

...CADAVERS THE EXQUISITE CADAVERS Women in Eighteenth-Century Fiction When lovely woman stoops to folly, And finds too late that men betray; What 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...