 | David J. Fekete - 2003 - 314 pagina’s
...by a false lover. She sings a song, one evening, about false love from which Eliot borrows a line: When lovely woman stoops to folly, And finds too late...repentance to her lover, And wring his bosom — is to die.448 Moved by her own experience, Olivia falters in her singing. The contrast can hardly be more... | |
 | Thomas Stearns Eliot - 2003 - 188 pagina’s
...alternativa alla 253. Nel romanzo di Goldsmith, cosė canta Olivia nel luogo in cui era stata sedotta: When lovely woman stoops to folly And finds too late...her melancholy, What art can wash her guilt away? 257. Eliot rinvia ai suoi vv. 191-192. Cfr. nostra nota ad locuni. 279. Leicester era il Conte favorito... | |
 | Susan Goodman, Susan E. Goodman - 2003 - 234 pagina’s
...unrepentant heroine of a seduced-andabandoned story. The novel's epigraph comes from Oliver Goldsmith: "When lovely woman stoops to folly, / And finds too...her melancholy? / What art can wash her guilt away?" For Glasgow, the answer to Goldsmith's question is simple: time. In Aunt Agatha's day, the "unwritten... | |
 | Jane Austen - 2004 - 458 pagina’s
...Vicar of Wakefield, vol. II, ch. V. The lines are from a song sung by the Vicar's daughter, Olivia: 'When lovely woman stoops to folly, And finds too...to her lover, And wring his bosom — is to die.' Possibly a reference to Mrs. Weston's advancing pregnancy and to the need for clothing that could be... | |
 | John Durand - 2005 - 516 pagina’s
...a little piece by Goldsmith. He had it by heart now, and tried it quietly to himself for pleasure: 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... | |
 | T. S. Eliot - 2006 - 300 pagina’s
...child, 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 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... | |
 | Colin Bingham - 2006 - 428 pagina’s
...honour": "I am ready, my dear Lucy, to give you satisfaction — if you think there is any in marriage." When lovely woman stoops to folly, And finds too late...repentance to her lover, And wring his bosom, is— to die. OLIVER GOLDSMITH Wakefield—died to wring a lover's bosom. In any case, TS Eliot has given us a fair-enough... | |
 | Elizabeth Kantor - 2006 - 278 pagina’s
...of horns and motors, which shall bring / Sweeney to Mrs. Porter in the spring."8 Oliver Goldsmith's When lovely woman stoops to folly, And finds too late...her melancholy, What art can wash her guilt away? becomes When lovely woman stoops to folly and Paces about her room again, alone, She smoothes her hair... | |
 | Charles Mackay - 1860 - 332 pagina’s
...writer were produced between 1730 and 1746. WHEN LOVELY WOMAN. OLIVER GOLDSMITH, born 1731, died 1774. WHEN lovely woman stoops to folly, And finds too late...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,... | |
 | James R. Simmons, Jr - 2007 - 500 pagina’s
...woman stoops to folly, And finds too late that men betray, What can sooth [e] her melancholy, What can wash her guilt away? The only art her guilt to cover, To hide her shame from every eye, To wring repentance from her lover, And sting his bosom, is to die.' 1 I did not, however, feel inclined... | |
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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... 
