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
irish-poet men rich rule
Law grinds the poor, and rich men rule the law.
men growth seems
Man seems the only growth that dwindles here.
fashion men names
What we say of a thing that has just come in fashion And that which we do with the dead, Is the name of the honestest man in the nation: What more of a man can be said?
children men humanity
Were I to be angry at men being fools, I could here find ample room for declamation; but, alas! I have been a fool myself; and why should I be angry with them for being something so natural to every child of humanity?
men mind reason
Logicians have but ill defined As rational the human mind; Reason, they say, belongs to man, But let them prove it if they can.
men criticism blame
Blame where you must, be candid where you can, And be each critic the Good-natured Man.
country men years
A man he was to all the country dear, And passing rich with forty pounds a year.
real men might
What real good does an addition to a fortune already sufficient procure? Not any. Could the great man, by having his fortune increased, increase also his appetites, then precedence might be attended with real amusement.
men flesh reputation
Like the tiger, that seldom desists from pursuing man after having once preyed upon human flesh, the reader who has once gratified his appetite with calumny makes ever after the most agreeable feast upon murdered reputations!
country men cities
I have visited many countries, and have been in cities without number, yet never did I enter a town which could not produce ten or twelve little great men; all fancying themselves known to the rest of the world, and complimenting each other upon their extensive reputation.
men decay wealth
Where wealth accumulates, men decay.
lying men describe-me
Here lies David Garrick, describe me who can, An abridgment of all that was pleasant in man.
struggle adversity men
The greatest object in the universe, says a certain philosopher, is a good man struggling with adversity; yet there is still a greater, which is the good man who comes to relieve it.
dog men mad
Elegy of the Death of a Mad Dog The dog, to gain some praivate ends, Went mad and bit the man.