Frasi di Oliver Goldsmith
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Oliver Goldsmith è stato uno scrittore e drammaturgo irlandese.

✵ 10. Novembre 1728 – 4. Aprile 1774
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Oliver Goldsmith frasi celebri

“Recitare una commedia non puramente sentimentale, fu cosa pericolosissima.”

Origine: Citato in Enrico Piceni, introduzione a Christopher Morley, Tuono a sinistra, Arnoldo Mondadori Editore, 1947.

“Il silenzio è diventato la sua lingua madre.”

Origine: Da Il dabbenuomo.

“[…] è bello colui che agisce bene.”

Origine: Il vicario di Wakefield, p. 12

“L'uomo dal morso guarì, | e fu il cane che morì.”

Origine: Il vicario di Wakefield, p. 109

Oliver Goldsmith Frasi e Citazioni

Oliver Goldsmith: Frasi in inglese

“Through torrid tracts with fainting steps they go,
Where wild Altama murmurs to their woe.”

Oliver Goldsmith The Deserted Village

Origine: The Deserted Village (1770), Line 344.

“And in that town a dog was found,
As many dogs there be,
Both mongrel, puppy, whelp, and hound,
And curs of low degree.”

Oliver Goldsmith libro Il vicario di Wakefield

Origine: The Vicar of Wakefield (1766), Ch. 17, An Elegy on the Death of a Mad Dog, st. 4.

“Wept o'er his wounds, or tales of sorrow done,
Shoulder'd his crutch, and shew'd how fields were won.”

Oliver Goldsmith The Deserted Village

Origine: The Deserted Village (1770), Line 157.

“We are the boys
That fear no noise
Where the thundering cannons roar.”

Oliver Goldsmith She Stoops to Conquer

She Stoops to Conquer (1771), Act II

“The very pink of perfection.”

Oliver Goldsmith She Stoops to Conquer

She Stoops to Conquer (1771), Act I

“O Luxury! thou curst by Heaven's decree!”

Oliver Goldsmith The Deserted Village

Origine: The Deserted Village (1770), Line 385.

“The dog, to gain some private ends,
Went mad, and bit the man.”

Oliver Goldsmith libro Il vicario di Wakefield

Origine: The Vicar of Wakefield (1766), Ch. 17, An Elegy on the Death of a Mad Dog, st. 5.

“We modest Gentlemen don't want for much success among the women.”

Oliver Goldsmith She Stoops to Conquer

She Stoops to Conquer (1771), Act IV

“A book may be very amusing with numerous errors, or it may be very dull without a single absurdity.”

Oliver Goldsmith libro Il vicario di Wakefield

Preface.
The Vicar of Wakefield (1766)

“The only art her guilt to cover,
To hide her shame from every eye,
To give repentance to her lover,
And wring his bosom, is — to die.”

Oliver Goldsmith libro Il vicario di Wakefield

Origine: The Vicar of Wakefield (1766), Ch. 29, Song, st. 2.

“Where village statesmen talked with looks profound,
And news much older than their ale went round.”

Oliver Goldsmith The Deserted Village

Origine: The Deserted Village (1770), Line 223.

“Oh sir! I must not tell my age.
They say women and music should never be dated.”

Oliver Goldsmith She Stoops to Conquer

She Stoops to Conquer (1771), Act III

“I find you want me to furnish you with argument and intellects too.”

Oliver Goldsmith libro Il vicario di Wakefield

Origine: The Vicar of Wakefield (1766), Ch. 7.

“To what happy accident is it that we owe so unexpected a visit?”

Oliver Goldsmith libro Il vicario di Wakefield

Origine: The Vicar of Wakefield (1766), Ch. 19.

“A man he was to all the country dear,
And passing rich with forty pounds a year.”

Oliver Goldsmith The Deserted Village

Origine: The Deserted Village (1770), Line 141.

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