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
itself pleasure weakest within
The weakest soul, within itself unblest, Leans for all pleasure on another's breast
dangerous
It's a damned long, boggy, dirty, dangerous way.
defiance eye human lords pass pride
Pride in their port, defiance in their eye I see the Lords of human kind pass by.
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.
beneath sweet
Sweet as the primrose peeps beneath the thorn.
followed himself king walked
The king himself has followed her, - / When she has walked before.
amusing book dull numerous single
A book may be amusing with numerous errors, or it may be very dull without a single absurdity.
humanity world conscious
The ingratitude of the world can never deprive us of the conscious happiness of having acted with humanity ourselves.
modesty virtue breasts
Modesty seldom resides in a breast that is not enriched with nobler virtues.
champion absurdity
Every absurdity has a champion to defend it.
individuality woe goodness
Whatever mitigates the woes, or increases the happiness of others, is a just criterion of goodness; and whatever injures society at large, or any individual in it, is a criterion of iniquity.