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
musical taste
With other fashionable topics, such as pictures, taste, Shakespeare, and the musical glasses.
fond love taste
I love everything that's old: old friends, old times, old manners, old books, old wines; and, I believe, Dorothy, you'll own I have been pretty fond of an old wife.
color romance taste
Romance and novel paint beauty in colors more charming than nature, and describe a happiness that humans never taste. How deceptive and destructive are those pictures of consummate bliss!
imagination entertainment taste
Taste is the power of relishing or rejecting whatever is offered for the entertainment of the imagination.
wise home taste
A traveler of taste will notice that the wise are polite all over the world, but the fool only at home.
nice proud
Too nice for a statesman, too proud for a wit.
govern thoughts-and-thinking
Those that think must govern those that toil.
begin gaiety gay levity lose melancholy natives remarkable serious time western
To begin with Ireland, the most western part of the continent, the natives are peculiarly remarkable for their gaiety and levity of their disposition ; the English, transplanted there, in time lose their serious melancholy air, and become gay and tho
beside fence
Beside yon straggling fence that skirts the way, / With blossomed furze unprofitably gay.
coat priest religion shoes
As I take my shoes from the shoemaker, and my coat from the tailor, so I take my religion from the priest
fond pursue
Too fond of the right to pursue the expedient.
laughter laughing way
The best way to make your audience laugh is to start laughing yourself.
people desire thousand
People seek within a short span of life to satisfy a thousand desires, each of which is insatiable.
becomes coffin handsome
I am told he makes a very handsome corpse, and becomes his coffin prodigiously.