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Yet, ignorant as Goldsmith was, few writers have done more to make the first steps in the laborious road to knowledge easy and pleasant. His compilations are widely distinguished from the compilations of ordinary book-makers. He was a great, perhaps an unequaled, master of the arts of selection and condensation.
Томас Маколей, «Оливер Голдсмит», 1856
Источник: Кагарлицкий Ю. И. Что такое фантастика? — М.: Художественная литература, 1974. — С. 119.
Dean Swift <…> perceived that there was a spirit of romance mixed with all the works of the poets who preceded him; or, in other words, that they had drawn nature on the most pleasing side. There still therefore was a place left for him, who, careless of censure, should describe it just as it was, with all its deformities; he therefore owes much of his fame, not so much to the greatness of his genius, as to the boldness of it. <br class="br">«История Англии в серии писем благородного человека своему сыну» (An History of England, in a Series of Letters from a Nobleman to His Son), 1769 <br class="br">Источник: Муравьёв В. С. Путешествие с Гулливером. — М.: Книга, 1972. — С. 116. <br class="br">Источник: Jonathan Swift: The Critical Heritage https://books.google.ru/books?id=WqrNY-dq8DwC&hl=ru&source=gbs_navlinks_s ed. by Kathleen Williams, Routledge, 1970, ch. 34.
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Act II.
The Good-Natured Man (1768)
“I love everything that's old: old friends, old times, old manners, old books, old wines.”
Oliver Goldsmith книга The Vicar of Wakefield
She Stoops to Conquer (1771), Act I
Источник: The Vicar of Wakefield
Oliver Goldsmith The Deserted Village
Источник: The Deserted Village (1770), Line 51.
“O Memory! thou fond deceiver.”
Act I.
The Captivity, An Oratorio (1764)
“Handsome is that handsome does.”
Oliver Goldsmith книга The Vicar of Wakefield
Источник: The Vicar of Wakefield (1766), Ch. 1.
“Such is the patriot's boast, where'er we roam,
His first, best country ever is, at home.”
Источник: The Traveller (1764), Line 73.
The Art of Poetry on a New Plan (1761), vol. ii. p. 147.
The saying "he who fights and runs away may live to fight another day" dates at least as far back as Menander (ca. 341–290 B.C.), Gnomai Monostichoi, aphorism #45: ἀνήρ ὁ ϕɛύγων καὶ ράλίν μαχήɛṯαί (a man who flees will fight again). The Attic Nights (book 17, ch. 21) of Aulus Gellius (ca. 125–180 A.D.) indicates it was already widespread in the second century: "...the orator Demosthenes sought safety in flight from the battlefield, and when he was bitterly taunted with his flight, he jestingly replied in the well-known verse: The man who runs away will fight again".
“That virtue which requires to be ever guarded is scarce worth the sentinel.”
Oliver Goldsmith книга The Vicar of Wakefield
Источник: The Vicar of Wakefield (1766), Ch. 5.
“By sports like these are all their cares beguil'd;
The sports of children satisfy the child.”
Источник: The Traveller (1764), Line 153.
“These little things are great to little man.”
Источник: The Traveller (1764), Line 42.
“Our greatest glory is not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall.”
Вариант: Our greatest glory consists not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall.
Источник: The Citizen of the World, Or, Letters from a Chinese Philosopher, Residing in London, to His Friends in the Country, by Dr. Goldsmith
“Ask me no questions, and I'll tell you no fibs.”
Oliver Goldsmith She Stoops to Conquer
She Stoops to Conquer
She Stoops to Conquer (1771), Act III
Вариант: Ask me no questions, and I'll tell you no lies.
Источник: The Citizen of the World, Or, Letters from a Chinese Philosopher, Residing in London, to His Friends in the Country, by Dr. Goldsmith
“Luke's iron crown, and Damien's bed of steel.”
Источник: The Traveller (1764), Line 436.
“The best-humour'd man, with the worst-humour'd Muse.”
Postscript.
Retaliation (1774)
Oliver Goldsmith книга The Vicar of Wakefield
Источник: The Vicar of Wakefield (1766), Ch. 29, Song, st. 1.
“To what fortuitous occurrence do we not owe every pleasure and convenience of our lives.”
Oliver Goldsmith книга The Vicar of Wakefield
Источник: The Vicar of Wakefield (1766), Ch. 21.
“[To Mr. Johnson] If you were to make little fishes talk, they would talk like whales.”
From James Boswell's Life of Johnson (1791), April 27, 1773.
“Where wealth and freedom reign contentment fails,
And honor sinks where commerce long prevails.”
Источник: The Traveller (1764), Line 91.
Источник: Retaliation (1774), Line 107.
Oliver Goldsmith книга The Vicar of Wakefield
Источник: The Vicar of Wakefield (1766), Ch. 7.
“Here lies David Garrick, describe me, who can,
An abridgment of all that was pleasant in man.”
Источник: Retaliation (1774), Line 93.
“That strain once more; it bids remembrance rise.”
Act I.
The Captivity, An Oratorio (1764)
“Even children followed with endearing wile,
And plucked his gown, to share the good man's smile.”
Oliver Goldsmith The Deserted Village
Источник: The Deserted Village (1770), Line 183.
Oliver Goldsmith книга The Vicar of Wakefield
Источник: The Vicar of Wakefield (1766), Ch. 1.
“The watchdog's voice that bayed the whispering wind,
And the loud laugh that spoke the vacant mind.”
Oliver Goldsmith The Deserted Village
Источник: The Deserted Village (1770), Line 121.
“Thou source of all my bliss, and all my woe,
That found'st me poor at first, and keep'st me so.”
Oliver Goldsmith The Deserted Village
Источник: The Deserted Village (1770), Line 413.
From James Boswell's Life of Johnson (1791), October 26, 1769.
Источник: The Traveller (1764), Line 265.
