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
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He cast off his friends as a huntsman his pack, For he knew when he pleas'd he could whistle them back.
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Remote, unfriended, melancholy, slow, Or by the lazy Scheld or wandering Po.
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A night-cap deck'd his brows instead of bay,- A cap by night, a stocking all the day.
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Well had the boding tremblers learn'd to trace The day's disasters in his morning face; Full well they laugh'd with counterfeited glee At all his jokes, for many a joke had he; Full well the busy whisper circling round Convey'd the dismal tidings when he frown'd. Yet was he kind, or if severe in aught, The love he bore to learning was in fault; The village all declar'd how much he knew, 'Twas certain he could write and cipher too.
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The whitewash'd wall, the nicely sanded floor, The varnish'd clock that click'd behind the door; The chest, contriv'd a double debt to pay,- A bed by night, a chest of drawers by day.
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Such dainties to them, their health it might hurt; It 's like sending them ruffles when wanting a shirt.
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Who mix'd reason with pleasure, and wisdom with mirth: If he had any faults, he has left us in doubt.
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The man recovered of the bite, The dog it was that died.
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As few subjects are more interesting to society, so few have been more frequently written upon than the education of youth.
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If we look round the world, there seem to be not above six distinct varieties in the human species, each of which is strongly marked, and speaks the kind seldom to have mixed with any other. But there is nothing in the shape, nothing in the faculties, that shows their coming from different originals; and the varieties of climate, of nourishment, and custom, are sufficient to produce every change.
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Friendship is a disinterested commerce between equals; love, an abject intercourse between tyrants and slaves.
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Ill fares the land, to hastening ills a prey, Where wealth accumulates, and men decay.
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True wisdom consists of tracing effects to their causes.
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He watched and wept and prayed and felt for all