Reading Experience Database
1450-1945

Listing for Author: Goldsmith

 

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1800-1849'Shakespeare incited his appetite for poetry: Cowper, Pope, Dryden, Goldsmith, Thomson, Byron. Not only were they more...Joseph Barker Oliver GoldsmithPrint: Book
1850-1899'While he read little but the Bible and religious periodicals, his son was working his way through the Rhymney Workmen...Thomas Jones Oliver GoldsmithHistory of EnglandPrint: Book
1800-1849'[Mary Smith] found emancipation in Shakespeare, Dryden, Goldsmith and other standard male authors, whom she extolled ...Mary Smith Oliver GoldsmithPrint: Book
1800-1849Henry Mayhew interviews a street author or street poet: "I was very fond of reading poems in my youth, as soon as I...anon Oliver GoldsmithEdwin and AngelinaPrint: Book
1850-1899[due to the fact that books in working class communities were generally cheap out of copyright reprints, not new works...Joseph Keating Oliver GoldsmithPrint: Book
1800-1849The Grecian History has pleased me much you know Mr Trant made a present of the Roman History, what a brave people the...Anne Lister Oliver GoldsmithThe Grecian HistoryPrint: Book
1800-1849I was rather unwell for about an hour, but not very bad when I could go on reading The Vicar of WakefieldAnne Lister Oliver GoldsmithThe Vicar of WakefieldPrint: Book
1850-1899'[William Robertson] Nicoll's boyhood reading included Scott, Disraeli, the Brontes, Bulwer Lytton, Shelley, Johnson, ...William Robertson Nicoll Oliver GoldsmithunknownPrint: Book
1800-1849My father's large bookcase was stuffed with odd volumes of the Gentleman's Magazine and other miscellaneous matters. A...Anne Lutton Oliver GoldsmithThe History of England from the Earliest Times...Print: Book
1850-1899Letter 8/2/1863 - "For, as far as I remember - my sayings to you have been very nearly limited to Goldsmith's model of...John Ruskin Oliver GoldsmithThe Vicar of WakefieldUnknown
1850-1899Letter 8/2/1863 - "I'm afraid to speak like the wicked girl in the fairy tale - who let - not pearls fall from her lip...John Ruskin Oliver GoldsmithThe Vicar of WakefieldPrint: Book
1850-1899'As a collier [Joseph Keating]... heard a co-worker sigh, "Heaven from all creatures hides the book of fate". Keating ...Joseph Keating Oliver GoldsmithPrint: Book
1900-1945'Nottinghamshire collier G.A.W. Tomlinson volunteered for repair shifts on weekends, when he could earn time-and-a-hal...G.A.W. Tomlinson Oliver GoldsmithThe Deserted VillagePrint: Book
1700-1799'In 1768, Burney read in rapid succession Elizabeth and Richard Griffith's "A Series of Genuine Letters between Henry ...Frances Burney Oliver GoldsmithThe Vicar of WakefieldPrint: Book
1850-1899"Forbidden David Copperfield, Bleak House, The Heart of Midlothian, and The Vicar of Wakefield ... [H. M. Swanwick] re...H. M. Swanwick Oliver GoldsmithThe Vicar of WakefieldPrint: Book
1800-1849'It must be labour that makes things valuable Princes & Lords may flourish and may fade But a bold Peasantry, the Coun...Robert Sharp Oliver GoldsmithThe Deserted VillagePrint: Book
1800-1849'Robert Collyer grew up in a blacksmith's home with only a few books - "Pilgrim's Progress", "Robinson Crusoe", Goldsm...Robert Collyer Oliver GoldsmithHistory of EnglandPrint: Book
1800-1849'Robert Collyer grew up in a blacksmith's home with only a few books - "Pilgrim's Progress", "Robinson Crusoe", Goldsm...Robert Collyer Oliver GoldsmithHistory of RomePrint: Book
1850-1899'Lancashire journalist Allen Clarke (b.1863), the son of a Bolton textile worker, avidly read his father's paperback e...Allen Clarke Oliver Goldsmith[unknown]Print: Book
1700-1799'She was "surprised into tears" by "The Vicar of Wakefield", although she did not much like it.'Frances Burney Oliver GoldsmithThe Vicar of WakefieldPrint: Book
1800-1849'His plan was to make use of me as a talking dictionary and grammar, confining my teachings exclusively to the answeri...Oliver GoldsmithVicar of WakefieldPrint: Book
1800-1849?As spring and autumn were our only really busy seasons, I had occasionally , during other parts of the year, consider...Samuel Bamford Oliver GoldsmithHistory of EnglandPrint: Book
1800-1849'I had been made the more anxious to get some spare time, because several books which I had not before seen now fell i...Thomas Carter Oliver GoldsmithCitizen of the World, ThePrint: Book
1800-1849'I had been made the more anxious to get some spare time, because several books which I had not before seen now fell i...Thomas Carter Oliver GoldsmithVicar of Wakefield, ThePrint: Book
1700-1799?The day after this being the last of the year, I managed to finish reading Blackstone?s Commentaries and Goldsmith?s ...John Marsh Oliver GoldsmithHistory of England from the earliest times to the death of George IIPrint: Book
1700-1799Another great source of amusement as well as knowledge, I have met with in reading almost all the best novels (Cervant...James Lackington GoldsmithVicar of WakefieldPrint: Book
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'[B]e not thrown into wild delight because his genius has shone forth--misfortune & rage have occasioned this & whenev...Lady Caroline Lamb Oliver GoldsmithunknownPrint: Book
1800-1849'It was at this time that I read the remaining seven volumes of the "Spectator"; to which I added the "Rambler", the "...Thomas Carter Oliver Goldsmith[poems]Print: Book
1800-1849'search Blackstone and Goldsmith's "History"; much struck with style of latter; deserving, I think, to be more talked of'William Windham Oliver GoldsmithThe History of EnglandPrint: Book
1850-1899
1900-1945
Sir John Hammerton looking back on his early days in Glasgow when he left school and became a correspondence clerk, he...Sir John Hammerton Oliver Goldsmith[unknown]Print: Book
1700-1799'Mr Jaegle makes us read an English book that is called "The Vicar of Wakefield" which is very pretty, interesting, we...Elizabeth (Betsey) Wynne Oliver GoldsmithThe Vicar of WakefieldPrint: Unknown
1700-1799Letter to Miss Ewing June 10 1774 'Yet I should like none of these climates, where ?Winter lingering chills the lap ...Anne Grant [nee MacVicar] Oliver Goldsmith[The traveller]Print: Book
1700-1799Letter to Collector MacVicar, June 20 1773 'In the mean time I hope the best, and endeavour to pursue Oliver Cromwell ...Anne Grant [nee MacVicar] Oliver GoldsmithThe vicar of WakefieldPrint: Book
1700-1799Letter to Miss Ourry March 27 1791 'I am very fond of the lower class of people; they have sentiment, serious habits, ...Anne Grant [nee MacVicar] Oliver GoldsmithThe travellerPrint: Book
1800-1849'read Comus. Knight of the swan - 1st Vol of Goldth citizen of the world'Mary Shelley Oliver GoldsmithCitizen of the World, ThePrint: Book
1800-1849'Monday Oct. 24th. Rise at eight [...] M. reads aloud She stoops to [C]onquer -- She sets out to see Shelley at ele...Mary Wollstonecraft Godwin Oliver GoldsmithShe Stoops to ConquerPrint: Book
1800-1849'Thursday Jany. 23rd. Do an Italian exercise & read some of Moore's Anacreon [...] Read Anarcharsis [...] Begin Gol...Claire Clairmont Oliver GoldsmithThe History of Greece, from the Earliest State, to the Death of Alexander the GreatPrint: Book
1800-1849'Thursday June 15th. [...] Go in a Calesse to Casa Ricci at Livorno. Read Vicar of Wakefield'. ...Claire Clairmont Oliver GoldsmithThe Vicar of WakefieldPrint: Book
1800-1849'Read Vicar of Wakefield'Mary Shelley Oliver GoldsmithVicar of Wakefield, ThePrint: Book
1800-1849'my dear father told thee that Goldsmith's would now be the [italics] deserted village [end italics]; perhaps thou dos...Richard Shackleton Oliver GoldsmithDeserted Village, ThePrint: Book
1800-1849'Goldsmiths description of the Appennines is exact - "Woods over Woods in [italics] gay theatric pride [end italics]"....Anne Romilly Oliver GoldsmithTraveller, The; or, A Prospect of Society Print: Unknown
1900-1945Remarks in E. M. Forster's Commonplace Book of 1926 include 'Nearly all novels go off at the end,' with further commen...Edward Morgan Forster Oliver GoldsmithThe Vicar of WakefieldPrint: Book
1700-1799'He said of Goldsmith's "Traveller," which had been published in my absence, "There has not been so fine a poem since ...Samuel Johnson Oliver GoldsmithTraveller, ThePrint: Unknown
1700-1799'He [Dr Johnson] said, "Goldsmith's 'Life of Parnell' is poor; not that it is poorly written, but that he had poor mat...Samuel Johnson Oliver GoldsmithLife of Parnell Print: Book
1700-1799'On Saturday, April 3, the day after my arrival in London this year, I went to his house late in the evening, and sat ...Samuel Johnson Oliver Goldsmith[apology for beating a bookseller]Unknown
1700-1799' [Johnson said of Goldsmith] "Take him as a poet, his 'Traveller' is a very fine performance; ay, and so is his 'Dese...Samuel Johnson Oliver GoldsmithTraveller, ThePrint: Book
1700-1799' [Johnson said of Goldsmith] "Take him as a poet, his 'Traveller' is a very fine performance; ay, and so is his 'Dese...Samuel Johnson Oliver GoldsmithDeserted Village, ThePrint: Book
1700-1799' [Johnson said of Goldsmith] "Take him as a poet, his 'Traveller' is a very fine performance; ay, and so is his 'Dese...Samuel Johnson Oliver GoldsmithRoman History From The Foundation of The City of RomPrint: Book
1700-1799' [Johnson said of Goldsmith] "Take him as a poet, his 'Traveller' is a very fine performance; ay, and so is his 'Dese...Samuel Johnson Oliver GoldsmithHistory of England in a Series of Letters from a Nobleman to His SonPrint: Book
1800-1849'The [Tennyson] boys had one great advantage [as home-educated pupils], the run of their father's excellent library. A...Tennyson children (boys)Oliver GoldsmithPrint: Book
1700-1799'I mentioned Mr. Maclaurin's uneasiness on account of a degree of ridicule carelessly thrown on his deceased father, i...Mr Maclaurin Oliver GoldsmithHistory of the Earth and Animated NaturePrint: Book
1700-1799'Langton. "There is not one bad line in that poem [Goldsmith's 'The Traveller']— no one of Dryden's careless verses....Samuel Johnson Oliver GoldsmithTraveller, ThePrint: Unknown
1700-1799'Langton. "There is not one bad line in that poem [Goldsmith's 'The Traveller']— no one of Dryden's careless verses....Joshua Reynolds Oliver GoldsmithTraveller, ThePrint: Unknown
1700-1799'Langton. "There is not one bad line in that poem [Goldsmith's 'The Traveller']— no one of Dryden's careless verses....Bennet Langton Oliver GoldsmithTraveller, ThePrint: Unknown
1700-1799'Langton. "There is not one bad line in that poem [Goldsmith's 'The Traveller']— no one of Dryden's careless verses....Charles Fox Oliver GoldsmithTraveller, ThePrint: Unknown
'[Johnson said] "I remember a passage in Goldsmith's "Vicar of Wakefield", which he was afterwards fool enough to expu...Samuel Johnson Oliver GoldsmithVicar of WakefieldManuscript: Unknown
'Goldsmith talks of cows shedding their Horns, & Thompson makes his Hens and Chicks to be Fed & defended by the fe...Hester Lynch Thrale Oliver GoldsmithHistory of the Earth and Animated NaturePrint: Book
1700-1799'While their [her daughters'] Father's Life preserv'd my Authority entire, I used it [italics] all & only [end italics...Hester Lynch Thrale and her daughters Hester, Susanna and SophiaOliver GoldsmithVicar of Wakefield, ThePrint: Book
1850-1899'Played Bezique with Polly in the evening after I had read aloud three Acts of "She stoops to conquer".'John Buckley Castieau Oliver GoldsmithShe stoops to conquerPrint: Book
1850-1899'In the evening took Polly out for a little walk after I had finished reading [aloud?] "She stoops to conquer".'John Buckley Castieau Oliver GoldsmithShe stoops to conquerPrint: Book
1850-1899'Began to-night to read again "The Vicar of Wakefield" & was delighted with its quaint easy style, read two or three c...John Buckley Castieau Oliver GoldsmithThe Vicar of WakefieldPrint: Book
1900-1945'I finish reading "The Vicar of Wakefield". The world has changed more in the last 30 years than in the previous 150'Thomas Kitching Oliver GoldsmithVicar of Wakefield, ThePrint: Book
1850-1899'Read "Vicar of Wakefield" and "Citizen of World" at coffee, and was sick of both.'John Ruskin Oliver GoldsmithVicar of Wakefield, ThePrint: Book
1850-1899'Read "Vicar of Wakefield" and "Citizen of World" at coffee, and was sick of both.'John Ruskin Oliver GoldsmithCitizen of the World, ThePrint: Book
1900-1945'The remainder of the evening was devoted to a play-reading from Oliver Goldsmith's 'The Goodnatured Man'. Although th...members of XII Book ClubOliver GoldsmithGood-natured Man, ThePrint: Book
1900-1945'The remainder of the evening was devoted to a play-reading from Oliver Goldsmith's 'The Goodnatured Man'. Although th...Ernest E. Unwin Oliver GoldsmithGood-natured Man, ThePrint: Book
1900-1945'The remainder of the evening was devoted to a play-reading from Oliver Goldsmith's 'The Goodnatured Man'. Although th...Ernest E. Unwin Oliver GoldsmithShe Stoops to ConquerPrint: Book
1700-1799[Elizabeth Carter to Elizabeth Vesey, 6 August 1766:] 'Be so good as to tell Mrs Handcock that I do like the "Vicar...Elizabeth Carter Oliver GoldsmithThe Vicar of WakefieldPrint: Book
1800-1849[From the diary of Elizabeth Firth, 6 January 1820:] 'Read Goldsmith's History of Rome.'Elizabeth Firth Oliver GoldsmithHistory of RomePrint: Book

 

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