Oliver Goldsmith
Oliver Goldsmith
Oliver Goldsmithwas an Irish novelist, playwright and poet, who is best known for his novel The Vicar of Wakefield, his pastoral poem The Deserted Village, and his plays The Good-Natur'd Manand She Stoops to Conquer. He is thought to have written the classic children's tale The History of Little Goody Two-Shoes...
NationalityIrish
ProfessionPoet
Date of Birth10 November 1730
CountryIreland
cynical philosopher ridiculous
There is nothing so absurd or ridiculous that has not at some time been said by some philosopher.
men decay wealth
Where wealth accumulates, men decay.
sweet glasses gold
All is not gold that glitters, Pleasure seems sweet, but proves a glass of bitters
book errors dull
A book may be very amusing with numerous errors, or it may be very dull without a single absurdity.
running fighting may
He who fights and runs away May live to fight another day...
sweet auburn village
Sweet Auburn, loveliest village of the plain.
gratitude fear guides
Fear guides more than gratitude.
retirement adventure blue
We had no revolutions to fear, nor fatigues to undergo; all our adventures were by the fireside, and all our migrations from the blue bed to the brown.
morning faces disaster
Well had the boding tremblers learned to trace the day's disasters in his morning face.
self essence may
The premises being thus settled, I proceed to observe that the concatenation of self-existence, proceeding in a reciprocal duplicate ratio, naturally produces a problematical dialogism, which in some measure proves that the essence of spirituality may be referred to the second predicable.
long curiosity demand
When we take a slight survey of the surface of our globe a thousand objects offer themselves which, though long known, yet still demand our curiosity.
art simplicity gloss
To me more dear, congenial to my heart, One native charm, than all the gloss of art.
art sky bird
And as a bird each fond endearment tries To tempt its new-fledg'd offspring to the skies, He tried each art, reprov'd each dull delay, Allur'd to brighter worlds, and led the way.
time gentleman bees
The genteel thing is the genteel thing any time, if as be that a gentleman bees in a concatenation accordingly.