Oliver Goldsmith was 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 Man and She Stoops to Conquer . He is thought to have written the classic children's tale The History of Little Goody Two-Shoes . Wikipedia
“To me more dear, congenial to my heart,
One native charm, than all the gloss of art.”
Source: The Deserted Village (1770), Line 253.
“How happy he who crowns in shades like these,
A youth of labour with an age of ease.”
Source: The Deserted Village (1770), Line 99.
Source: The Vicar of Wakefield (1766), Ch. 8, The Hermit (Edwin and Angelina), st. 1.
Act I.
The Captivity, An Oratorio (1764)
“For just experience tells; in every soil,
That those that think must govern those that toil.”
Source: The Traveller (1764), Line 371.
Source: Retaliation (1774), Line 145.
“Truth from his lips prevailed with double sway,
And fools, who came to scoff, remained to pray.”
Source: The Deserted Village (1770), Line 179.
“Vain, very vain, my weary search to find
That bliss which only centers in the mind.”
Source: The Traveller (1764), Line 423.
“The twelve good rules, the royal game of goose.”
Source: The Deserted Village (1770), Line 232.
