“How happy he who crowns in shades like these,
A youth of labour with an age of ease.”
Oliver Goldsmith The Deserted Village
Source: The Deserted Village (1770), Line 99.
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Oliver Goldsmith: Citations en anglais
Oliver Goldsmith livre The Vicar of Wakefield
Source: The Vicar of Wakefield (1766), Ch. 8, The Hermit (Edwin and Angelina), st. 1.
“For just experience tells; in every soil,
That those that think must govern those that toil.”
Source: The Traveller (1764), Line 371.
“The first blow is half the battle.”
Oliver Goldsmith She Stoops to Conquer
She Stoops to Conquer (1771), Act II
Source: Retaliation (1774), Line 145.
Oliver Goldsmith The Deserted Village
Source: The Deserted Village (1770), Line 227.
Oliver Goldsmith She Stoops to Conquer
She Stoops to Conquer (1771), Act II
“Truth from his lips prevailed with double sway,
And fools, who came to scoff, remained to pray.”
Oliver Goldsmith The Deserted Village
Source: The Deserted Village (1770), Line 179.
“All his faults are such that one loves him still the better for them.”
Act I.
The Good-Natured Man (1768)
“Vain, very vain, my weary search to find
That bliss which only centers in the mind.”
Source: The Traveller (1764), Line 423.
“The twelve good rules, the royal game of goose.”
Oliver Goldsmith The Deserted Village
Source: The Deserted Village (1770), Line 232.
Verses in reply to an invitation to dine at Dr. Baker's.
