Oliver Goldsmith Quotes
Hope, like the gleaming taper
Citations
Goldsmith, Oliver. The Captivity: An Oratorio. W. Pickering, 1836, p. 15.
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Oliver Goldsmith was an Anglo-Irish novelist, playwright and poet, who is best known for his novel The Vicar of Wakefield (1766), his pastoral poem The Deserted Village (1770), and his plays The Good-Natur'd Man (1768) and She Stoops to Conquer (1771, first performed in 1773). He is thought to have written the classic children's tale The History of Little Goody Two-Shoes (1765).