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
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He tried each art, reproved each dull delay./ Allured to brighter worlds, and led the way.
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A book may be amusing with numerous errors, or it may be very dull without a single absurdity.
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A book may be very amusing with numerous errors, or it may be very dull without a single absurdity.
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We are the boys / That fear no noise / Where the thundering cannons roar.
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Where village statesmen talked with looks profound, / And news much older than their ale went round.
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Logicians have but ill defined As rational the human mind. Logic, they say, belongs to man, But let them prove it if they can.
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With other fashionable topics, such as pictures, taste, Shakespeare, and the musical glasses.
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Too nice for a statesman, too proud for a wit.
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