“When lovely woman stoops to folly/ And finds too late that men betray/ what calm can soothe her…
The lines occur in The Vicar of Wakefield by Oliver Goldsmith. Olivia’s song expresses the suffering of a woman who has been deceived and abandoned.
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“When lovely woman stoops to folly/ And finds too late that men betray/ what calm can soothe her melancholy/ what art can wash her guilt away.” These lines are found in which novel?
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The lines occur in The Vicar of Wakefield by Oliver Goldsmith. Olivia’s song expresses the suffering of a woman who has been deceived and abandoned.
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Kerala SET (LBS Centre)