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Taste is the power of relishing or rejecting whatever is offered for the entertainment of the imagination.
Oliver Goldsmith
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Oliver Goldsmith
Age: 43 †
Born: 1730
Born: November 10
Died: 1774
Died: April 4
Dramaturge
Essayist
Literary Critic
Novelist
Physician
Physician Writer
Playwright
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Polygraph
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Elphin
County Roscommon
Oliver Goldsmit
Doctor Goldsmith
Oliverio Goldsmith
Oliverus Goldsmith
Olver Goldsmith
Olivier Goldsmith
Dottor Golssmith
Tom Telescope
Solomon Winlove
James Willington
Author of the Vicar of Wakefield
Dr Goldsmith
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And the weak soul, within itself unbless'd, Leans for all pleasure on another's breast.
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To the last moment of his breath, On hope the wretch relies And even the pang preceding death Bids expectation rise.
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Death when unmasked shows us a friendly face and is a terror only at a distance.
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Every acknowledgment of gratitude is a circumstance of humiliation and some are found to submit to frequent mortifications of this kind, proclaiming what obligations they owe, merely because they think it in some measure cancels the debt.
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By sports like these are all their cares beguil'd The sports of children satisfy the child.
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Such dainties to them, their health it might hurt It 's like sending them ruffles when wanting a shirt.
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When any one of our relations was found to be a person of a very bad character, a troublesome guest, or one we desired to get rid of, upon his leaving my house I ever took care to lend him a riding-coat, or a pair of boots, or sometimes a horse of small value, and I always had the satisfaction of finding he never came back to return them.
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O Luxury! thou curst by Heaven's decree!
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While Resignation gently slopes away, And all his prospects brightening to the last, His heaven commences ere the world be past.
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