R When lovely woman ...

V. Goldsmith, the song in The Vicar of Wakefield. [Eliot's note] Olivia, a character in Oliver Goldsmith's novel, sings the following song when she returns to the place where she was seduced:

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 shame from every eye,
To give repentance to her lover
And wring his bosom -- is to die.

The Story of Narcissus and Echo Title of “Burbank with a Baedeker: Bleistein with a Cigar”Title of "Burbank with a Baedeker: Bleistein with a Cigar" linguistic analysis The syntactic parallelism of the title is striking, and in that particularly the presence of a colon. The syntactic structures of the title's two constituents are exactly the same -…Click for the full annotation →
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