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But times are alter'd trade's unfeeling train Usurp the land, and dispossess the swain Along the lawn, where scatter'd hamlets rose, Unwieldy wealth and cumbrous pomp repose.

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Oliver Goldsmith
Age: 43 †
Born: 1730
Born: November 10
Died: 1774
Died: April 4
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Elphin
County Roscommon
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Doctor Goldsmith
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Oliverus Goldsmith
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Olivier Goldsmith
Dottor Golssmith
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James Willington
Author of the Vicar of Wakefield
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