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
looks news older statesmen talked village
Where village statesmen talked with looks profound, / And news much older than their ale went round.
different looks world
If we look round the world, there seem to be not above six distinct varieties in the human species, each of which is strongly marked, and speaks the kind seldom to have mixed with any other. But there is nothing in the shape, nothing in the faculties, that shows their coming from different originals; and the varieties of climate, of nourishment, and custom, are sufficient to produce every change.
life looks virgins
The bashful virgin's sidelong looks of love.
regret looks way
Whichever way we look the prospect is disagreeable. Behind, we have left pleasures we shall never enjoy, and therefore regret; and before, we see pleasures which we languish to possess, and are consequently uneasy till we possess them.
bashful glance looks
The bashful virgin's side-long looks of love,/ The matron's glance that would those looks reprove.
boys fear noise thundering
We are the boys / That fear no noise / Where the thundering cannons roar.
agree sugar
Our Garrick's a salad; for in him we see, Oil, vinegar, sugar and saltiness agree
commerce contentment freedom honor prevails wealth
Where wealth and freedom reign; contentment fails, And honor sinks where commerce long prevails
direct management pretend
Who can direct when all pretend to know?
belongs defined human ill prove rational
Logicians have but ill defined As rational the human mind. Logic, they say, belongs to man, But let them prove it if they can.
musical taste
With other fashionable topics, such as pictures, taste, Shakespeare, and the musical glasses.
nice proud
Too nice for a statesman, too proud for a wit.
laughter laughing way
The best way to make your audience laugh is to start laughing yourself.
people desire thousand
People seek within a short span of life to satisfy a thousand desires, each of which is insatiable.