OLIVER GOLDSMITH
\ˈɒlɪvə ɡˈə͡ʊldsmɪθ], \ˈɒlɪvə ɡˈəʊldsmɪθ], \ˈɒ_l_ɪ_v_ə ɡ_ˈəʊ_l_d_s_m_ɪ_θ]\
Definitions of OLIVER GOLDSMITH
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- 2011 - English Dictionary Database
- 1910 - Warner's dictionary of authors ancient and modern
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By Princeton University
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An English-Irish poet, novelist, dramatist, and miscellaneous prose-writer; born in Pallas, County Longford, Ireland, Nov. 10, 1728; died at London, April 4, 1774. His first literary ventures were "Enquiry into the Present State of Polite Learning in Europe" and "The Citizen of the World". Next appeared "The Traveller"; "The Deserted Village"; "The Vicar of Wakefield"; "The Good-Natured Man"; and "She Stoops to Conquer". His essays and his histories, his biographies and his text-books, are numerous and famed.
By Charles Dudley Warner
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