Oliver Goldsmith

It is generally supposed that this poem owes something to Oliver Goldsmith 's The Deserted Village, though SB represents a whole range of country working people with markedly more familiarity and realism than does Goldsmith.

This man, a French Protestant condemned to the galleys as a heretic, had published authentic memoirs of his harrowing experiences in 1757. Oliver Goldsmith (who may possibly have met Marteilhe) had translated them pseudonymously into...

In 1933 there was excitement in the book-collecting world when a small collection of books that Austen had owned (by writers like Ariosto , Goldsmith , Hume , and Thomson ) appeared in the catalogue...

She advises about relations with servants, about prompt payment of bills, and other aspects of running a complicated household. She says there will always be vacant Hours to fill up with reading, and offers...

Sydney Owenson took up a governess job with Margaret Featherstone or Featherstonehaugh of Bracklin Castle, Westmeath.

The poem is one of exile, owing something to Goldsmith 's The Traveller, combining observation of nature with personal feeling: My weary footsteps hoped for rest in vain, / Steep on steep in rude...

She had suddenly conceived the ambition of becoming an artist (the only profession open to her, as a girl of good family) when she heard that this was the choice of the cousin with whom...