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Date: 1760-1761, 1762
"My friend seemed to blush for his countrymen, assuring me that those whom I saw running away, were only a parcel of musical blockheads, whose passion was merely for sounds, and whose heads were as empty as a fiddle case; those who remain behind, says he, are the true Religious; they make use of ...
preview | full record— Goldsmith, Oliver (1728?-1774)
Date: 1766
"I have ever perceived, that where the mind was capacious, the affections were good."
preview | full record— Goldsmith, Oliver (1728?-1774)
Date: 1774
"Here lies honest William, whose heart was a mint, / While the owner ne'er knew half the good that was in't."
preview | full record— Goldsmith, Oliver (1728?-1774)