Oliver Goldsmith
Noun
Meaning
Irish writer of novels and poetry and plays and essays (1728-1774)
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Dilworth's book plays the part of a paragon in the poem "The Rising Village" by Oliver Goldsmith about the influences of improper education in a Nova Scotia community.
Hellman, 235. mainAs he revised his older works for Putnam, Irving continued to write regularly, publishing biographies of the writer and poet Oliver Goldsmith in 1849 and the 1850 work about the Islamic prophet Muhammad.
He succeeded Oliver Goldsmith at the Royal Academy as 'professor in ancient history' (honorary but prestigious).
The drinking of urine of those who had consumed the mushroom was commented on by Anglo-Irish writer Oliver Goldsmith in his widely read 1762 novel, Citizen of the World.