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
defiance eye human lords pass pride
Pride in their port, defiance in their eye I see the Lords of human kind pass by.
itself pleasure weakest within
The weakest soul, within itself unblest, Leans for all pleasure on another's breast
peppers callous please
Who pepper'd the highest was surest to please.
thank-you pain want
Blest that abode, where want and pain repair, And every stranger finds a ready chair.
eloquence rules speak subject thoroughly
To feel your subject thoroughly and to speak without fear, are the only rules of eloquence