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Oliver Goldsmith

Also known as Oliver Goldsmit, Doctor Goldsmith, Oliverio Goldsmith, Oliverus Goldsmith, Olver Goldsmith, Olivier Goldsmith, Dottor Golssmith, Tom Telescope

Anglo-Irish writer, poet, and physician (d. 1774)

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Oliver Goldsmith was an Anglo-Irish writer, poet, and physician who lived until 1774 and produced influential works across multiple literary forms. He remains significant in English literature for his contributions to poetry and prose during the 18th century.

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Person · Open Library

Born: 1728
Died: 1774
Works: 1009

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Music · MusicBrainz

Type: Person
Gender: Male
Origin: United States
Active from: 1929-02-10
Active to: 2004-07-21

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Discography

Christus Apollo2002
The Agony and the Ecstasy2013

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Listeners · Last.fm

Listeners: 62
Total plays: 699

Recent publications · Crossref

5 total works indexed

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Quotes

“A nightcap decked his brows instead of bay,A cap by night — a stocking all the day!”
“Our greatest glory is not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall.”
“Men may be very learned, and yet very miserable; it is easy to be a deep geometrician, or a sublime astronomer, but very difficult to be a good man. I esteem, therefore, the traveller who instructs the heart, but despise him who only indulges the imagination. A man who leaves home to mend himself and others, is a philosopher; but he who goes from country to country, guided by the blind impulse of curiosity, is only a vagabond.”
“Such dainties to them, their health it might hurt;It's like sending them ruffles, when wanting a shirt.”
“There is no arguing with Johnson: for if his pistol misses fire, he knocks you down with the butt end of it.”
“[To Mr. Johnson] If you were to make little fishes talk, they would talk like whales.”

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Image: Oliver Goldsmith by Sir Joshua Reynolds.jpg

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date of death: 1774-04-04
Commons category: Oliver Goldsmith
date of birth: 1730-11-10
Commons gallery: Oliver Goldsmith
Commons Creator page: Oliver Goldsmith
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P12749: Willi Hennig

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Works in European collections

36 objects attributed to Oliver Goldsmith, held across European museums, libraries & archives · via Europeana

Compendium of the History of England [Manuscript]:] from the Invasion of Julius Caesar to the Death of Gorge II

An abridgement of the history of England from the invasion of Julius Caesar to the death of George the Second

Historia de Inglaterra

Compendium of Roman History from the Founding of Rome to the Ruin of its Western Empire

Dr. Goldsmith's History of Greece abridged for the use of schools

Compendio de la historia romana

Pinnock's improved edition of Dr. Goldsmith's abridgment of the History of Rome to which is prefixed, an introduction to the study of roman history, and a variety of valuable information ... on the manners, institutions, and antiquities of the romans ... biographical and historical notes ... a dictionary explaining the most difficult words ... and questions for examination ..

Abrege de l'histoire romaine depuis la fondation de rome ...

The history of Greece, from the earliest State, to the death of Alexander the great to which is added a summary account of the affairs of Greece ..

Pinnock's improved edition of Dr. Goldsmith's History of Greece abridged for the use of schools

Goldsmith's history of England from the invasion of Julius Caesar to the death of George II with a continuation to the present time

Histoire de la Grèce depuis son origine jusqu'à la mort d'Alexandre

Goldsmith's history of England from the invasion of Julius Caesar to the death of George II with a continuation to the present time

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Oliver Goldsmith (10 November 1728 – 4 April 1774) was an Anglo-Irish poet, novelist, playwright, and hack writer. He produced literary works in a variety of genres and is regarded as one of the most versatile writers of the Georgian era. His works are known for their realistic depictions of British society, and his comedy plays for the English stage are considered second in importance only to those of playwright William Shakespeare. Credited with introducing sentimentalism in English literature in 18th-century Great Britain, several of Goldsmith's publications are popular classics of the period, including his only novel, The Vicar of Wakefield (1766), and the comedy play She Stoops to Conquer (1773).

He wrote the play The Good-Natur'd Man (1768) and is additionally thought by commentators such as Washington Irving to have written the children's novel The History of Little Goody Two-Shoes (1765), one of the earliest classical works of children's literature. Goldsmith also produced a number of poems during his career, such as The Deserted Village (1770), and contributed to the flourishing of idyllic poetry during the Georgian era.