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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
“How happy he who crowns in shades like these,
A youth of labour with an age of ease.”
Источник: The Deserted Village (1770), Line 99.
Источник: The Vicar of Wakefield (1766), Ch. 8, The Hermit (Edwin and Angelina), st. 1.
“For just experience tells; in every soil,
That those that think must govern those that toil.”
Источник: The Traveller (1764), Line 371.
“The first blow is half the battle.”
She Stoops to Conquer (1771), Act II
Источник: Retaliation (1774), Line 145.
“Truth from his lips prevailed with double sway,
And fools, who came to scoff, remained to pray.”
Источник: The Deserted Village (1770), Line 179.
“All his faults are such that one loves him still the better for them.”
Act I.
The Good-Natured Man (1768)
“Vain, very vain, my weary search to find
That bliss which only centers in the mind.”
Источник: The Traveller (1764), Line 423.
“The twelve good rules, the royal game of goose.”
Источник: The Deserted Village (1770), Line 232.
Verses in reply to an invitation to dine at Dr. Baker's.