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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.
«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
Источник: Муравьёв В. С. Путешествие с Гулливером. — М.: Книга, 1972. — С. 116.
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.
Оливер Голдсмит: Цитаты на английском языке
“So the loud torrent and the whirlwind's roar
But bind him to his native mountains more.”
Источник: The Traveller (1764), Line 217.
“Through torrid tracts with fainting steps they go,
Where wild Altama murmurs to their woe.”
Источник: The Deserted Village (1770), Line 344.
Источник: The Vicar of Wakefield (1766), Ch. 17, An Elegy on the Death of a Mad Dog, st. 4.
“We are the boys
That fear no noise
Where the thundering cannons roar.”
She Stoops to Conquer (1771), Act II
“The very pink of perfection.”
She Stoops to Conquer (1771), Act I
“O Luxury! thou curst by Heaven's decree!”
Источник: The Deserted Village (1770), Line 385.
“The dog, to gain some private ends,
Went mad, and bit the man.”
Источник: The Vicar of Wakefield (1766), Ch. 17, An Elegy on the Death of a Mad Dog, st. 5.
“The canvas glow'd beyond ev'n Nature warm,
The pregnant quarry teem'd with human form.”
Источник: The Traveller (1764), Line 137.
“We modest Gentlemen don't want for much success among the women.”
She Stoops to Conquer (1771), Act IV
Источник: The Vicar of Wakefield (1766), Ch. 29, Song, st. 2.
Источник: Retaliation (1774), Line 29.
“Where village statesmen talked with looks profound,
And news much older than their ale went round.”
Источник: The Deserted Village (1770), Line 223.
Источник: Retaliation (1774), Line 24.
“Oh sir! I must not tell my age.
They say women and music should never be dated.”
She Stoops to Conquer (1771), Act III
“I find you want me to furnish you with argument and intellects too.”
Источник: The Vicar of Wakefield (1766), Ch. 7.
“To what happy accident is it that we owe so unexpected a visit?”
Источник: The Vicar of Wakefield (1766), Ch. 19.
“A man he was to all the country dear,
And passing rich with forty pounds a year.”
Источник: The Deserted Village (1770), Line 141.