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
disorder doctor doctors last
The doctor found, when she was dead, her last disorder mortal.
mere
I'm now no more than a mere lodger in my own house.
pleasant
An abridgement of all that was pleasant in man.
cast knew pleased whistle
He cast off his friends as a huntsman his pack, for he knew when he pleased he could whistle them back.
consists fall glory greatest rising time
Our greatest glory consists not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall
bashful glance looks
The bashful virgin's side-long looks of love,/ The matron's glance that would those looks reprove.
becomes coffin handsome
I am told he makes a very handsome corpse, and becomes his coffin prodigiously.
battle fights rise runs
For he that fights and runs away, may live to fight another day, but he, who is in battle slain, can never rise and fight again.
came fools-and-foolishness remained
And fools, who came to scoff, remained to pray.
brighter dull led tried
He tried each art, reproved each dull delay./ Allured to brighter worlds, and led the way.
agree sugar
Our Garrick's a salad; for in him we see, Oil, vinegar, sugar and saltiness agree
duty felt prayed prompt watched
But in his duty prompt at every call, he watched and wept, he prayed and felt for all.
bed behind chest clicked clock contrived debt double drawers nicely
The white-washed 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.
brighter cheers darker grows
Hope, like the gleaming taper's light, adorns and cheers our way; and still, as darker grows the night, emits a brighter ray.