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Oliver Goldsmith

The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
Oliver Goldsmith 1730?-1774, Anglo-Irish author. The son of an Irish clergyman, he was graduated from Trinity College, Dublin, in 1749. He studied medicine at Edinburgh and Leiden, but his career as a physician was quite unsuccessful. In 1756 he settled in London, where he achieved some success as a miscellaneous contributor to periodicals and as the author of Enquiry into the Present State of Polite Learning in Europe (1759). But it was not until The Citizen of the World (1762), a series of whimsical and satirical essays, that he was recognized as an able man of letters. His fame grew... Read more
Oliver Goldsmith
Encyclopedia of World Biography Oliver Goldsmith The British poet, dramatist, novelist, and essayist Oliver Goldsmith (1730-1774) wrote, translated, or compiled...child of a country rector in Ireland, Oliver Goldsmith entered Trinity College, Dublin, in... Read more
Oliver Goldsmith
Encyclopedia of World Biography Oliver Goldsmith The Canadian poet Oliver Goldsmith (1794-1861) is remembered primarily for "The Rising Village...to be written by a native Canadian, published in London. Oliver Goldsmith, a grandnephew of the British poet of the same name, was... Read more

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WHAT TICKS TOM CLANCY OFF? Liberals, Critics, Clinton, Hollywood, Oliver Goldsmith, Anti-War Wimps and Just About Everything Else
Newspaper article from: The Washington Post; 6/27/1993; ; 679 words ; ...Colin"). He'd praised Ronald Reagan, George Bush, Dan Quayle, Oliver North, William Shakespeare, doctors and nurses, and he'd denounced President Clinton, Joe Biden, Oliver Goldsmith, the Kennedys, reporters, government agencies, liberals, NASA... Read more
Goldsmith on Burke and Gray. (Oliver Goldsmith, Edmund Burke, Thomas Gray)
Magazine article from: Papers on Language & Literature; 6/22/1998; ; 700+ words ; ...were produced.(1) This essay explores Goldsmith's poetry and his poetics in the context...periodization. My choice of texts--two of Goldsmith's early reviews--needs some explanation...early 1760s, the period during which Goldsmith abandoned various other options and became... Read more
at last night's first night; A Laughing Matter by April De Angelis; She Stoops to Conquer by Oliver Goldsmith: Royal National Theatre.(Review)
Newspaper article from: The Daily Mail (London, England); 12/18/2002; ; 332 words ; ...Lyttelton auditorium tells the story of Goldsmith's great 1773 comedy as a prologue to...brilliant new Irish actor, Owen Sharpe, plays Goldsmith in Miss De Angelis's new play as a tolerated...Watkins puts Garrick's case for not doing Goldsmith's play very convincingly; and a whole... Read more
Washington Irving's "Creole Village" and Goldsmith's "Traveller".(Oliver Goldsmith)(Critical essay)
Magazine article from: ANQ; 1/1/2007; ; 700+ words ; ...combined influence of Montesquieu and Goldsmith. In The Spirit of the Laws (1748), Montesquieu...all places and at all times. (25-26) Goldsmith then latched on to the qualities of idleness...corrupts the French people at large. (Goldsmith's generalizing plural might soften the... Read more
WHAT TICKS TOM CLANCY OFF? LIBERALS, CRITICS, CLINTON, HOLLYWOOD, OLIVER GOLDSMITH, ANTI-WAR WIMPS AND JUST ABOUT EVERYTHING ELSE
Newspaper article from: The Washington Post; 6/27/1993; ; 700+ words ; Peterson glanced at the dashboard clock. It was 12:56. The rendezvous was planned for 1 o'clock. He'd already reconnoitered the perimeter of the complex. Everything appeared to be in order; no unusual activity. He drove to the end of the road, which terminated in a pair of battleship-gray gates. He Read more
WHAT TICKS TOM CLANCY OFF? LIBERALS, CRITICS, CLINTON, HOLLYWOOD, OLIVER GOLDSMITH, ANTI - WAR WIMPS AND JUST ABOUT EVERYTHING ELSE
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Terrorism and the flu; "Dona[euro][TM]t let us make imaginary evils, when you know we have so many real ones to encounter." a[euro]" Oliver Goldsmith.(Opinion & Editorial)
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