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| | Oliver Goldsmith - MSN Encarta |
 | | Oliver Goldsmith (playwright and novelist) (1730-74), Anglo-Irish playwright, novelist, poet, and essayist, best known for his witty comedy She Stoops to Conquer and his novel The Vicar of Wakefield, an early example of the form. | | | In 1770, Goldsmith published the poem The Deserted Village, distinguished for its pastoral atmosphere and felicity of phrasing; it marked the transition in English literature from neoclassicism to romanticism. | | | His first play, the comedy The Good Natur'd Man (1768), was a failure, but She Stoops to Conquer (1773) was an immediate success; it remains one of the best-known comedies of the British drama. |
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http://encarta.msn.com/encyclopedia_761562651/Oliver_Goldsmith.html
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| | A biography of Oliver Goldsmith (1728-1774) |
| | Oliver Goldsmith was a very great man. This his contemporaries agreed on, yet none of them knew quite why. | | | Yet despite the disintegration of his personality, the foolishness of his actions, his excessive drunkenness and incurable extravagance, Goldsmith was, and is, a great man—a man of rare talents that bordered on genius, one of the finest natural writers in the English language. | | | Doubtless Goldsmith could have given chapter and verse, for many of the blows that Dr. Primrose suffered, from his memories of his father's time as a country parson in Ireland. |
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http://www.ourcivilisation.com/smartboard/shop/goldsmth/about.htm
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| | Oliver Goldsmith |
| | Goldsmith was meanwhile busy with a great deal of hack-work -- the Natural History, the histories of England, Rome, and Greece -- which was very remunerative. | | | Oliver Goldsmith Quotes - An index of quotations. | | | - An attack by Oliver Goldsmith on the "sentimental comedy" of his day. |
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http://www.theatredatabase.com/18th_century/oliver_goldsmith_001.html
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| | The Samuel Johnson Sound Bite Page: Quotes on Oliver Goldsmith |
| | What Goldsmith comically says of himself is very true,— he always gets the better when he argues alone; meaning, that he is master of a subject in his study, and can write well upon it; but when he comes into company, grows confused, and unable to talk. | | | As they say of a generous man, it is a pity he is not rich, we may say of Goldsmith, it is a pity he is not knowing. | | | Upon another occasion, when Goldsmith confessed himself to be of an envious disposition, I contended with Johnson that we ought not to be angry with him, he was so candid in owning it. |
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http://www.samueljohnson.com/goldsmith.html
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| | Goldsmith wrote with clarity and precision; for example, he admitted one of the most common confusions in natural history of the period in his discussion of the "border" between plants and animals: | | | Goldsmith's Animated Nature went through over twenty editions into the Victorian era; though it can be criticized on technical grounds, the work became the source of what countless individuals in the English-speaking world knew about the natural world around them. | | | The work sought to draw together virtually all that was known about the planet earth, its plants and animals, and even its human inhabitants described from a biological perspective. |
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http://www.dickinson.edu/~nicholsa/Romnat/goldsmith.htm
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| | [minstrels] An Elegy on the Death of a Mad Dog -- Oliver Goldsmith |
| | Goldsmith's poetry lives by its own special softening and mellowing of the traditional heroic couplet into simple melodies that are quite different in character from the solemn and sweeping lines of 18th-century blank verse. | | | His contemporaries were as one in their high regard for Goldsmith the writer, but they were of different minds concerning the man himself. | | | [...] Goldsmith's success as a writer lay partly in the charm of personality emanated by his style--his affection for his characters, his mischievous irony, and his spontaneous interchange of gaiety and sadness. |
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http://www.cs.rice.edu/~ssiyer/minstrels/poems/286.html
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| | Goldsmith Poet Information |
| | The result was that Goldsmith had to attend Trinity as a sizar, that is, as one who gets free lodging and the scraps of the commons kitchen; in return for this, he does menial chores. | | | He must also wear a distinctive garb to indicate his inferior status. | | | Johnson included Goldsmith in his circle of friends. |
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http://www.glasson.com/sights/goldsmith.htm
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| | oliver goldsmith ... at MSN Shopping |
| | Pinnock's Improved Edition of Dr. Goldsmith's History of Rome | | | See other titles by this author available from Kessinger Publishing. | | | Essays on Goldsmith by Scott, Macaulay and Thackeray and Selections from His Writings... |
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| | Oliver Goldsmith - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
| | Wikiquote has a collection of quotations related to: | | | Oliver Goldsmith (November 10, 1730(?) – April 4, 1774) was an Irish writer and physician known for his novel The Vicar of Wakefield (1766), his pastoral poem The Deserted Village (1770) (written in memory of his brother), and his plays The Good-natur'd Man (1768) and She Stoops to Conquer (1773). | | | The combination of his literary work and his dissolute lifestyle led Horace Walpole to giving him the much quoted epithet of Inspired Idiot. |
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oliver_Goldsmith
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| | Oliver Goldsmith |
| | The dates and publishers given here are for first editions. | | | Translated by Goldsmith from the French of Formey (1766); A Short English Grammar (1766); Poems for Young Ladies. | | | However, I realise you may be looking for current editions, so in-print books by Oliver Goldsmith may be purchased directly from |
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http://www.irishwriters-online.com/olivergoldsmith.html
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| | Oliver - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
| | Oliver Plunkett (1629-1681), Irish saint and Archbishop of Armagh and Primate of All Ireland | | | Oliver Hardy (1892-1957), American actor, one half of comedy duo Laurel and Hardy. | | | This is a disambiguation page — a list of articles associated with the same title. |
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| | Oliver Goldsmith: Biography of Oliver Goldsmith |
| | Soon after he was engaged to contribute to the "Public Ledger," writing the famous "Chinese Letters," afterward published as "The Citizen of the World." His next important work was the "Letters from a Nobleman to His Son." "The Traveler" followed in 1765, and "The Vicar of Wakefield" in 1766, but Goldsmith was improvident as ever. | | | After this - having failed to obtain ordination, Goldsmith took pupils for a time, and lost his money by extravagance - he went to Edinburgh in 1752, and from thence to Leyden. | | | Son of a poor Irish clergyman of Pallas, Longford, went as sizar, in 1744, to Trinity College, Dublin, where he led a miserable life until he took his degree five years later. |
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http://www.sacklunch.net/biography/G/OliverGoldsmith.html
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| | Oliver Goldsmith. She Stoops to Conquer |
| | I would argue, however, that although there are contrasts to be found within the play between age and youth, city and country, and social classes, the contrasts which are most significant are firstly between appearance and reality, and secondly, between what certain characters want to do and what they feel they are obliged to do. | | | Goldsmith's She Stoops to Conquer has a somewhat farcical element to it which is, on the whole, achieved by a series of contrasts. |
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http://www.literature-study-online.com/essays/goldsmith.html
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| | Oliver Goldsmith - Wikiquote |
| | Oliver Goldsmith (November 10, 1730(?) – April 4, 1774) was an Irish writer, playwright, and physician. | | | Because of a change in the settings of this wiki, the "E-mail this user" function will not work anymore if you do not confirm your e-mail address |
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http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Oliver_Goldsmith
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| | Oliver Goldsmith |
| | Classic Poetry > Oliver Goldsmith > Thomas Gray | | | Submit a NEW Classic Poem for Oliver Goldsmith! | | | If you have a poem by this author that is NOT on our list, please feel free to submit it for publication. |
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http://www.netpoets.com/classic/030000.htm
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| | Tibbs assured the company, that the polite hours were going to begin, and that the ladies would instantaneously be entertained with the horns. | | | Selections from The Citizen of the World, by Oliver Goldsmith |
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