Oliver Goldsmith

Recall Oliver Goldsmith: "there is no arguing with Johnson; for when his pistol misses fire, he knocks you down with the butt."

The harsh style 2009

Oliver Goldsmith, that is quite peculiar in the history of literature, and which has been glad to overlook his faults and follies, and eager to sympathise with him in the many miseries of his career, will be slow to believe that it is responsible for any starvation that

Goldsmith English Men of Letters Series William Black 1869

"Oliver Goldsmith," she said, green eyes twinkling.

The Last Gamble Nichols, Mary 1996

A fellow writer recalled a couplet by Oliver Goldsmith: "And still they gazed and still the wonder grew/That one small head could carry all he knew."

"The Letters of Bruce Chatwin" Jonathan Yardley 2011

Now Lloyd's brisk, boisterous and not-especially-made-over production of Oliver Goldsmith's 1773 "laughing comedy", a satire on, among other things, the excess of feeling and gentility in the "sentimental comedies" of the time.

She Stoops to Conquer; Henry V, The Winter's Tale – review 2012

A fellow writer recalled a couplet by Oliver Goldsmith: "And still they gazed and still the wonder grew/That one small head could carry all he knew."

"The Letters of Bruce Chatwin" Jonathan Yardley 2011

LONDON—Did Oliver Goldsmith, as a schoolboy in mid-18th-century Ireland, really fall for the prank of being directed to the grand house of the local landowner, when he had asked directions to the best inn?

'Laughing Comedy' Continues to Conquer Paul Levy 2012

So it is a joy to see Oliver Goldsmith's 1773 classic back at the National after a 10-year gap.

She Stoops To Conquer 2012

Barr pops up as a variety of other people, from Dr Johnson's peevish Welsh housekeeper to a prattling Oliver Goldsmith, whose conversational misfortune is that "he goes on without knowing how he is to get off".

A Dish of Tea With Dr Johnson – review 2011

Great works of art have been written in that way—the comedies of Oliver Goldsmith, and nearly all the comedies of Molière, for instance.

Later Articles and Reviews W.B. Yeats 2000