Oliver Goldsmith citations (134 citations, Page 5)

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Oliver Goldsmith: Citations en anglais

“How happy he who crowns in shades like these,
A youth of labour with an age of ease.”

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Oliver Goldsmith The Deserted Village

Source: The Deserted Village (1770), Line 99.

“Turn, gentle Hermit of the Dale,
And guide my lonely way
To where yon taper cheers the vale
With hospitable ray.”

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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. 1.

“As aromatic plants bestow
No spicy fragrance while they grow;
But crush'd or trodden to the ground,
Diffuse their balmy sweets around.”

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Oliver Goldsmith

Act I.
The Captivity, An Oratorio (1764)

“For just experience tells; in every soil,
That those that think must govern those that toil.”

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Source: The Traveller (1764), Line 371.

“The first blow is half the battle.”

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Oliver Goldsmith She Stoops to Conquer

She Stoops to Conquer (1771), Act II

“When he talked of their Raphaels, Correggios, and stuff,
He shifted his trumpet and only took snuff.”

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Source: Retaliation (1774), Line 145.

“Alike all ages. Dames of ancient days
Have led their children through the mirthful maze,
And the gay grandsire, skill'd in gestic lore,
Has frisk'd beneath the burden of threescore.”

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Source: The Traveller (1764), Line 251.

“The whitewashed wall, the nicely sanded floor,
The varnished clock that clicked behind the door;
The chest contrived a double debt to pay,
A bed by night, a chest of drawers by day.”

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Oliver Goldsmith The Deserted Village

Source: The Deserted Village (1770), Line 227.

“Travellers, George, must pay in all places: the only difference is, that in good inns, you pay dearly for your luxuries, and in bad inns you are fleeced and starved.”

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Oliver Goldsmith She Stoops to Conquer

She Stoops to Conquer (1771), Act II

“Truth from his lips prevailed with double sway,
And fools, who came to scoff, remained to pray.”

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Oliver Goldsmith The Deserted Village

Source: The Deserted Village (1770), Line 179.

“All his faults are such that one loves him still the better for them.”

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Act I.
The Good-Natured Man (1768)

“Vain, very vain, my weary search to find
That bliss which only centers in the mind.”

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Source: The Traveller (1764), Line 423.

“The twelve good rules, the royal game of goose.”

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Oliver Goldsmith The Deserted Village

Source: The Deserted Village (1770), Line 232.

“You may all go to pot.”

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Verses in reply to an invitation to dine at Dr. Baker's.

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