...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...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...

...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...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...

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...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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...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...

...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 his bosom - is to die.' /. 257: Eliot refers us to The Tempest i, ii, the words of Ferdinand remembering the music that calmed...