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Oliver Goldsmith, né à Elphin, comté de Roscommon le 10 novembre 1728 et mort à Londres le 4 avril 1774, est un écrivain irlandais. Wikipedia  

✵ 10. novembre 1728 – 4. avril 1774
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Oliver Goldsmith: Citations en anglais

“No flocks that range the valley free
To slaughter I condemn;
Taught by that Power that pities me,
I learn to pity them:
But from the mountain’s grassy side
A guiltless feast I bring;
A scrip with herbs and fruits supplied,
And water from the spring.”

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Oliver Goldsmith livre The Vicar of Wakefield

Source: The Vicar of Wakefield (1766), Ch. 8, The Hermit (Edwin and Angelina), st. 6-7.

“It seemed to be pretty plain, that they had more of love than matrimony in them.”

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Oliver Goldsmith livre The Vicar of Wakefield

Source: The Vicar of Wakefield (1766), Ch. 16.

“The king himself has followed her
When she has walk'd before.”

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Oliver Goldsmith

Elegy on Mrs. Mary Blaize, st. 5.
The Bee (1759)

“Let schoolmasters puzzle their brain,
With grammar, and nonsense, and learning;
Good liquor, I stoutly maintain,
Gives genus a better discerning.”

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Oliver Goldsmith She Stoops to Conquer

She Stoops to Conquer (1771), Act I

“This same philosophy is a good horse in the stable, but an arrant jade on a journey.”

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Act I.
The Good-Natured Man (1768)

“Baw! Damme, but I'll fight you both, one after the other!
With baskets.”

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Oliver Goldsmith She Stoops to Conquer

She Stoops to Conquer (1771), Act IV

“Conscience is a coward, and those faults it has not strength enough to prevent it seldom has justice enough to accuse.”

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Oliver Goldsmith livre The Vicar of Wakefield

Source: The Vicar of Wakefield (1766), Ch. 13.

“Where'er I roam, whatever realms I see,
My heart untraveled fondly turns to thee;
Still to my brother turns with ceaseless pain,
And drags at each remove a lengthening chain.”

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Source: The Traveller (1764), Line 7.

“Friendship is a disinterested commerce between equals; love, an abject intercourse between tyrants and slaves.”

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Act I.
The Good-Natured Man (1768)

“Man wants but little here below,
Nor wants that little long.”

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Oliver Goldsmith livre The Vicar of Wakefield

Source: The Vicar of Wakefield (1766), Ch. 8, The Hermit (Edwin and Angelina), st. 8.

“I'll be with you in the squeezing of a lemon.”

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Oliver Goldsmith She Stoops to Conquer

She Stoops to Conquer (1771), Act I

“Unknown those powers that raise the soul to flame,
Catch every nerve, and vibrate through the frame.
Their level life is but a mouldering fire,
Unquenched by want, unfanned by strong desire.”

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Source: The Traveller (1764), Line 219.

“A kind and gentle heart he had,
To comfort friends and foes;
The naked every day he clad
When he put on his clothes.”

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Oliver Goldsmith livre The Vicar of Wakefield

Source: The Vicar of Wakefield (1766), Ch. 17, An Elegy on the Death of a Mad Dog, st. 3.

“It has been a thousand times observed, and I must observe it once more, that the hours we pass with happy prospects in view are more pleasing than those crowned with fruition.”

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Oliver Goldsmith livre The Vicar of Wakefield

Source: The Vicar of Wakefield (1766), Ch. 10.

“Bends to the grave with unperceived decay,
While resignation gently slopes the way;
And, all his prospects brightening to the last,
His heaven commences ere the world be past.”

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Oliver Goldsmith The Deserted Village

Source: The Deserted Village (1770), Line 109.

“On the stage he was natural, simple, affecting;
'Twas only that when he was off he was acting.”

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Source: Retaliation (1774), Line 101.

“And what is friendship but a name,
A charm that lulls to sleep,
A shade that follows wealth or fame,
And leaves the wretch to weep?”

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Oliver Goldsmith livre The Vicar of Wakefield

Source: The Vicar of Wakefield (1766), Ch. 8, The Hermit (Edwin and Angelina), st. 19.

“The sigh that rends thy constant heart
Shall break thy Edwin's too.”

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Oliver Goldsmith livre The Vicar of Wakefield

Source: The Vicar of Wakefield (1766), Ch. 8, The Hermit (Edwin and Angelina), st. 33.

“In arguing too, the parson owned his skill,
For e'en though vanquished, he could argue still;
While words of learned length, and thundering sound
Amazed the gazing rustics ranged around;
And still they gazed, and still the wonder grew,
That one small head could carry all he knew.”

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Oliver Goldsmith The Deserted Village

Source: The Deserted Village (1770), Line 211.

“To the last moment of his breath
On hope the wretch relies;
And e'en the pang preceding death
Bids expectation rise.”

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Act II.
The Captivity, An Oratorio (1764)

“Such dainties to them, their health it might hurt;
It's like sending them ruffles, when wanting a shirt.”

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The Haunch of Venison (1776).

“The genteel thing is the genteel thing any time, if as be that a gentleman bees in a concatenation accordingly.”

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Oliver Goldsmith She Stoops to Conquer

She Stoops to Conquer (1771), Act I

“They liked the book the better the more it made them cry.”

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Oliver Goldsmith She Stoops to Conquer

She Stoops to Conquer (1771), Act II

“Her modest looks the cottage might adorn,
Sweet as the primrose peeps beneath the thorn.”

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Oliver Goldsmith The Deserted Village

Source: The Deserted Village (1770), Line 329.

“Forc'd from their homes, a melancholy train,
To traverse climes beyond the western main;
Where wild Oswego spreads her swamps around,
And Niagara stuns with thundering sound.”

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Source: The Traveller (1764), Line 409.

“And, ev'n while fashion's brightest arts decoy,
The heart distrusting asks, if this be joy.”

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Oliver Goldsmith The Deserted Village

Source: The Deserted Village (1770), Line 263.

“The man recovered of the bite,
The dog it was that died.”

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Oliver Goldsmith livre The Vicar of Wakefield

Source: The Vicar of Wakefield (1766), Ch. 17, An Elegy on the Death of a Mad Dog, st. 8.

“To me more dear, congenial to my heart,
One native charm, than all the gloss of art.”

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Oliver Goldsmith The Deserted Village

Source: The Deserted Village (1770), Line 253.

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