 | Robert Andrews - 1997 - 666 Seiten
...dramatist, poet. Polly, in The Beggar's Opera, act 1 , sc. 8, air 8 (1728), ed. FW Bateson (1934). 4 When lovely woman stoops to folly, And finds too late...her melancholy, What art can wash her guilt away? OLIVER GOLDSMITH, (1728-1774) Anglo-Irish author, poet, playwright. Song sung by Olivia, in The Vicar... | |
 | Leslie A. Fiedler - 1997 - 524 Seiten
...Woman. The plaintive lines of Goldsmith, which reflect faithfully the sentimentality of Richardson, 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 ev'ry eye, To give repentance to... | |
 | John Hollander - 1997 - 342 Seiten
...Goldsmith's famous song from The Vicar of W ake field, When lovely woman stoops to folly, And finds t<x> late that men betray, What charm can soothe her melancholy, What art can wash her guilt away?6 In the rather nasty treatment the poem gives to "the typist home at teatime" in "The Fire Sermon"... | |
 | Joanna Thornborrow, Shân Wareing - 1998 - 286 Seiten
...The nine-syllable lines end in unstressed syllables, forming double rhymes as discussed earlier: 32 When lovely woman stoops to folly, And finds too late...repentance to her lover, And wring his bosom - is to die. Blank verse Blank verse consists of lines in iambic pentameter which do not rhyme. These are very common... | |
 | Connie Robertson - 1998 - 686 Seiten
...seemed to me pretty plain, that they had more of love than matrimony in them. 4199 The Vicar ofWakefield r, but few thy voice; Take each man's censure, but...as thy purse can buy. But not expressed in fancy; GOLDWATER Barry 19094200 (accepting the presidential nomination) I would remind you that extremism... | |
 | Connie Robertson - 1998 - 404 Seiten
...seemed to me pretty plain, that they had more of love than matrimony in them. 1707 The Vicar ofWakefield When lovely woman stoops to folly And finds too late...her melancholy, What art can wash her guilt away? wit. GOLDWYNSam 1882-1974 1708 I read part of it all the way through. 1709 Chaplin is no businessman... | |
 | Connie Robertson - 1998 - 404 Seiten
...seemed to me pretty plain, that they had more of love than matrimony in them. 1707 The Vicar ofWakefield When lovely woman stoops to folly And finds too late...betray, What charm can soothe her melancholy, What an can wash her guilt away? wit. GOLDWYNSam 1882-1974 1708 I read part of it all the way through. 1709... | |
 | James Russell Kincaid - 1998 - 372 Seiten
...any child. Are we denning the child's innocence in the way older societies denned women's virginity? 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... | |
 | Ashley Montagu - 1999 - 340 Seiten
...the eighteenth century Oliver Goldsmith had a revealing solution to this problem in a poignant poem: When lovely woman stoops to folly And finds too late...repentance to her lover And wring his bosom, is — to die. Naturally, not the man, but the woman had to die. The double standard of sexual morality is immemorially... | |
 | Elizabeth M. Knowles - 1999 - 1160 Seiten
...plain, that they had more of love than matrimony in them. The Vicar of Wukefield 1 1 766) ch. ift 30 When lovely woman stoops to folly And finds too late...her melancholy, What art can wash her guilt away? DIP Vicar of Wakefte\A(iJhh}fh. 29; cf. Eliot 296:11 31 There is no arguing with Johnson; l'or when... | |
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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... 
