“I love everything that's old: old friends, old times, old manners, old books, old wines.”
Oliver Goldsmith book The Vicar of Wakefield
She Stoops to Conquer (1771), Act I
Source: The Vicar of Wakefield
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Oliver Goldsmith book The Vicar of Wakefield
Source: The Vicar of Wakefield (1766), Ch. 29, Song, st. 1.
“The bashful virgin's sidelong looks of love,
The matron's glance that would those looks reprove.”
Oliver Goldsmith The Deserted Village
Source: The Deserted Village (1770), Line 29.
Oliver Goldsmith The Deserted Village
Variant: A man severe he was, and stern to view;
I knew him well, and every truant knew:
Well had the boding tremblers learned to trace
The day's disasters in his morning face;
Full well they laughed with counterfeited glee,
At all his jokes, for many a joke had he;
Full well the bust whisper, circling round,
Conveyed the dismal tidings when he frowned;
Yet he was kind; or if severe in aught,
The love he bore to learning was in fault;
The village all declared how much he knew;
'Twas certain he could write, and cipher too.
Source: The Deserted Village (1770), Line 199.
“It seemed to be pretty plain, that they had more of love than matrimony in them.”
Oliver Goldsmith book The Vicar of Wakefield
Source: The Vicar of Wakefield (1766), Ch. 16.
Act I.
The Good-Natured Man (1768)
“All his faults are such that one loves him still the better for them.”
Act I.
The Good-Natured Man (1768)