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.”

Oliver Goldsmith

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

“Il silenzio è diventato la sua lingua madre.”

Oliver Goldsmith

Origine: Da Il dabbenuomo.

“[…] è bello colui che agisce bene.”

Oliver Goldsmith libro Il vicario di Wakefield

Origine: Il vicario di Wakefield, p. 12

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

Oliver Goldsmith libro Il vicario di Wakefield

Origine: Il vicario di Wakefield, p. 109

Oliver Goldsmith Frasi e Citazioni

Oliver Goldsmith: Frasi in inglese

“It seemed to be pretty plain, that they had more of love than matrimony in them.”

Oliver Goldsmith libro Il vicario di Wakefield

Origine: The Vicar of Wakefield (1766), Ch. 16.

“The king himself has followed her
When she has walk'd before.”

Oliver Goldsmith

Elegy on Mrs. Mary Blaize, st. 5.
The Bee (1759)

“Baw! Damme, but I'll fight you both, one after the other!
With baskets.”

Oliver Goldsmith She Stoops to Conquer

She Stoops to Conquer (1771), Act IV

“Conscience is a coward, and those faults it has not strength enough to prevent it seldom has justice enough to accuse.”

Oliver Goldsmith libro Il vicario di Wakefield

Origine: The Vicar of Wakefield (1766), Ch. 13.

“Man wants but little here below,
Nor wants that little long.”

Oliver Goldsmith libro Il vicario di Wakefield

Origine: The Vicar of Wakefield (1766), Ch. 8, The Hermit (Edwin and Angelina), st. 8.

“I'll be with you in the squeezing of a lemon.”

Oliver Goldsmith She Stoops to Conquer

She Stoops to Conquer (1771), Act I

“A kind and gentle heart he had,
To comfort friends and foes;
The naked every day he clad
When he put on his clothes.”

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. 3.

“And what is friendship but a name,
A charm that lulls to sleep,
A shade that follows wealth or fame,
And leaves the wretch to weep?”

Oliver Goldsmith libro Il vicario di Wakefield

Origine: The Vicar of Wakefield (1766), Ch. 8, The Hermit (Edwin and Angelina), st. 19.

“The sigh that rends thy constant heart
Shall break thy Edwin's too.”

Oliver Goldsmith libro Il vicario di Wakefield

Origine: The Vicar of Wakefield (1766), Ch. 8, The Hermit (Edwin and Angelina), st. 33.

“They liked the book the better the more it made them cry.”

Oliver Goldsmith She Stoops to Conquer

She Stoops to Conquer (1771), Act II

“Her modest looks the cottage might adorn,
Sweet as the primrose peeps beneath the thorn.”

Oliver Goldsmith The Deserted Village

Origine: The Deserted Village (1770), Line 329.

“And, ev'n while fashion's brightest arts decoy,
The heart distrusting asks, if this be joy.”

Oliver Goldsmith The Deserted Village

Origine: The Deserted Village (1770), Line 263.

“The man recovered of the bite,
The dog it was that died.”

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. 8.

“To me more dear, congenial to my heart,
One native charm, than all the gloss of art.”

Oliver Goldsmith The Deserted Village

Origine: The Deserted Village (1770), Line 253.

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