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.
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.
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.
mere
I'm now no more than a mere lodger in my own house.
pleasant
An abridgement of all that was pleasant in man.
modesty virtue breasts
Modesty seldom resides in a breast that is not enriched with nobler virtues.
peppers callous please
Who pepper'd the highest was surest to please.
woe poverty firsts
Thou source of all my bliss and all my woe, That found'st me poor at first, and keep'st me so.
geek conquer should
They say women and music should never be dated.
thank-you pain want
Blest that abode, where want and pain repair, And every stranger finds a ready chair.
whales littles fishes
If you were to make little fishes talk, they would talk like whales.
heirs world creation
Creation's heir, the world, the world is mine!