...black despair which clouds her future, he recites those affecting lines of Goldsmith, commencing: ' WHEN lovely woman stoops to folly, And finds too late that men betray,' etc.; son, plunges the cold steel into her bosom, or leaping from some high cliff in the darkness of...

...I had done him an injustice, and that there was no ground for my suspicions. CHAPTER XVIII. UNDINE. When lovely woman stoops to folly, And finds too late that men betray, What charm will soothe her melancholy ? What art will wash her guilt away ? GOLDSMITH. Two years had passed away...

...the influence both of hunger and fatigue, Henry Warden retained his standing posture. CHAPTER XXV. When lovely woman stoops to folly, And finds too late that men betray•J'ULIAN AVENEL saw with surprise the demeanour of the reverend stranger. " Beshrew me," he...

...the influence both of hunger and fatigue, Henry Warden retained his standing posture. CHAPTER XXV. When lovely woman stoops to folly, And finds too late that men betray * t » ' * JULIAN AVENEL saw with surprise the demeanour of the reverend stranger. " Beshrew me," he...

...pair of glares, on Valentine's Day. OLIVER GOLDSMITH 1728-74 475. When lovely Woman stoops to Folly WHEN lovely woman stoops to folly, And finds too late...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...

...examples quoted. The construction shown in (9), (10), and (11) is more frequently met with : — (9.) When love/ly wo/man stoops/ to fol/ly, and finds/...late/ that men/ betray/, What charm/ can soothe/ her me/lancho/lv ? What art/ can wash/ her guilt/ away ?/ (0. OoldmM, " Stanzas on Woman.") (10.) How long/...

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...without breaking eggheads' (Ken Tynan, in Brett, ed., The Faber Book of Parodies, pp. 179-80). Exx: 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? O. Goldsmith, The Vicar of Wakefield, ch. 29...

...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...

...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...