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Definition of Oliver goldsmith
1. Noun. Irish writer of novels and poetry and plays and essays (1728-1774).
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Literary usage of Oliver goldsmith
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Quarterly Review by John Gibson Lockhart, George Walter Prothero, William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, Baron Rowland Edmund Prothero Ernle, Sir William Smith (1907)
"oliver goldsmith. 1. The Complete Poetical Works of oliver goldsmith. ...
The Works of oliver goldsmith. Edited by JWM Gibbs. New edition. Five vols. ..."
2. English Literature: An Illustrated Record by Richard Garnett, Edmund Gosse (1903)
"By the side of Johnson, like an antelope accompanying an elephant, we Oliver
Goldsmith J'rom a Caricature by Bunbury observe the beautiful figure of OLIVER ..."
3. The Life of Samuel Johnson, LL.D.: Including a Journal of His Tour to the by James Boswell, John Wilson Croker (1860)
"Graham's " Telemachus, a Mask "—Dr. oliver goldsmith—Dr. John Campbell—" Hermippus
... As Dr. oliver goldsmith will frequently appear in this narrative, ..."
4. Irish Literature by Justin McCarthy, Maurice Francis Egan, Douglas Hyde, Charles Welsh, Gregory, James Jeffrey Roche (1904)
"oliver goldsmith. (1728—1774.) Among all the literary figures of the eighteenth
century, ... The father of oliver goldsmith was a curate and small farmer, ..."
5. Poetry and the Individual: An Analysis of the Imaginative Life in Relation by Washington Irving, Hartley Burr Alexander, Walter Scott (1849)
"THERE are few writers for whom the reader feels such personal kindness as for
oliver goldsmith, for few have so eminently possessed the magic gift of ..."
6. The Life of Samuel Johnson by James Boswell (1907)
"CHAPTER XIV—1763 oliver goldsmith oliver goldsmith—Johnson. ... As Dr. Oliver
Goldsmith will frequently appear in this narrative, I shall endeavour to make ..."
7. A Guide to the Best Fiction in English by William Winter, George Saintsbury, Ernest Albert Baker (1913)
""oliver goldsmith." The most illuminative remark that has been preserved as to
the character of oliver goldsmith is a remark made by himself, to the effect ..."
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