Source: Goldsmith's miscellaneous works
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Source: The works of Oliver Goldsmith. 2: Enquiry into the present state of polite learning; The citizen of the world
“It world be well had we more misers than we have among us.”
Source: Letters from a citizen of the world (concluded). The Bee, a select collection of essays, on the most interesting and entertaining subjects
Source: An inquiry into the present state of polite learning. The Bee. History of Cyrillo Padovano. Life of Dr. Parnell. Life of Lord Bolingbroke. Prefaces and introductions
Source: The citizen of the world
Source: The Works of Oliver Goldsmith: Poetical works. Dramas. The vicar of Wakefield
Source: A History of the Earth: And Animated Nature
Source: A History of the Earth, and Animated Nature
“The nakedness of the indigent world may be clothed from the trimmings of the vain.”
Source: The Vicar of Wakefield: A Tale
“No one but a fool would measure their satisfaction by what the world thinks of it.”
Source: Letters from a Citizen of the World to His Friends in the East ...
“Write how you want, the critic shall show the world you could have written better.”
Source: Goldsmith's Deserted village, with remarks on the analysis of sentences, exercises in parsing, notes ... and a life of the poet ... By Walter M'Leod
Source: Goldsmith's miscellaneous works
“Creation's heir, the world, the world is mine!”
Source: Preface to Dr. Brooke's natural history. Introduction to a new History of the world. Preface to the Roman history. Preface to the History of England. Preface to An history of the earth. Preface to the Beauties of English poetry. Preface to a collection of poems for young ladies, devotional, moral, and entertaining. Dr. Aikin's Critical dissertation on the poetry of Dr. Goldsmith. Poems. Dramatic : The good-natur'd man. She stoops to conquer
Source: The miscellaneous works of Oliver Goldsmith