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The watch-dog's voice that bay'd the whispering wind, And the loud laugh that spoke the vacant mind.

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Oliver Goldsmith
Age: 43 †
Born: 1730
Born: November 10
Died: 1774
Died: April 4
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Oliverus Goldsmith
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Dottor Golssmith
Tom Telescope
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Author of the Vicar of Wakefield
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