Oliver Goldsmith Quotes


No vernal blooms their torpid rocks array,
But winter lingering chills the lap of May;
No zephyr fondly sues the mountain's breast,
But meteors glare, and stormy glooms invest.


Citations

Goldsmith, Oliver. The Traveller, or a Prospect of Society. J. Newbery, 1764, p. 11.

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Oliver Goldsmith
Oliver Goldsmith
  • Born: November 10, 1728
  • Died: April 4, 1774
  • Nationality: Irish
  • Profession: Playwright, Poet, Busker, Apothecary's Assistant

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).