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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
Источник: The Vicar of Wakefield (1766), Ch. 8, The Hermit (Edwin and Angelina), st. 6-7.
“It seemed to be pretty plain, that they had more of love than matrimony in them.”
Источник: The Vicar of Wakefield (1766), Ch. 16.
“The king himself has followed her
When she has walk'd before.”
Elegy on Mrs. Mary Blaize, st. 5.
The Bee (1759)
“This same philosophy is a good horse in the stable, but an arrant jade on a journey.”
Act I.
The Good-Natured Man (1768)
“Baw! Damme, but I'll fight you both, one after the other!
With baskets.”
She Stoops to Conquer (1771), Act IV
“Man wants but little here below,
Nor wants that little long.”
Источник: The Vicar of Wakefield (1766), Ch. 8, The Hermit (Edwin and Angelina), st. 8.
“I'll be with you in the squeezing of a lemon.”
She Stoops to Conquer (1771), Act I
Источник: The Vicar of Wakefield (1766), Ch. 17, An Elegy on the Death of a Mad Dog, st. 3.
“On the stage he was natural, simple, affecting;
'Twas only that when he was off he was acting.”
Источник: Retaliation (1774), Line 101.
Источник: The Vicar of Wakefield (1766), Ch. 8, The Hermit (Edwin and Angelina), st. 19.
“The sigh that rends thy constant heart
Shall break thy Edwin's too.”
Источник: The Vicar of Wakefield (1766), Ch. 8, The Hermit (Edwin and Angelina), st. 33.
Act II.
The Captivity, An Oratorio (1764)
“They liked the book the better the more it made them cry.”
She Stoops to Conquer (1771), Act II
“Her modest looks the cottage might adorn,
Sweet as the primrose peeps beneath the thorn.”
Источник: The Deserted Village (1770), Line 329.
“And, ev'n while fashion's brightest arts decoy,
The heart distrusting asks, if this be joy.”
Источник: The Deserted Village (1770), Line 263.
“The man recovered of the bite,
The dog it was that died.”
Источник: The Vicar of Wakefield (1766), Ch. 17, An Elegy on the Death of a Mad Dog, st. 8.
“To me more dear, congenial to my heart,
One native charm, than all the gloss of art.”
Источник: The Deserted Village (1770), Line 253.