What did Oliver Goldsmith mean by: Write how you want, the critic shall show the world you could have written better. - Oliver Goldsmith Playwright and novelist · Ireland Copy
+ Her modest looks the cottage might adorn, Sweet as the primrose peeps beneath the thorn. Feraz Zeid, December 23, 2023January 10, 2024, Oliver Goldsmith, Cottages, Sweet, 0 - Oliver Goldsmith Playwright and novelist · Ireland
+ A man he was to all the country dear, And passing rich with forty pounds a year. Feraz Zeid, December 23, 2023January 10, 2024, Oliver Goldsmith, Country, 0 - Oliver Goldsmith Playwright and novelist · Ireland
+ People seek within a short span of life to satisfy a thousand desires, each of which is insatiable. Feraz Zeid, December 23, 2023January 10, 2024, Oliver Goldsmith, 0 - Oliver Goldsmith Playwright and novelist · Ireland
+ The ambitious are forever followed by adulation for they receive the most pleasure from flattery. Feraz Zeid, December 23, 2023January 10, 2024, Oliver Goldsmith, Ambitious, 0 - Oliver Goldsmith Playwright and novelist · Ireland
+ An emperor in his nightcap will not meet with half the respect of an emperor with a crown. Feraz Zeid, December 23, 2023January 10, 2024, Oliver Goldsmith, Appearance, Crowns, 0 - Oliver Goldsmith Playwright and novelist · Ireland
+ A mind too vigorous and active, serves only to consume the body to which it is joined. Feraz Zeid, December 23, 2023January 10, 2024, Oliver Goldsmith, Active, Body, Mind, 0 - Oliver Goldsmith Playwright and novelist · Ireland
+ The dog, to gain some private ends, Went mad, and bit the man. Feraz Zeid, December 23, 2023January 10, 2024, Oliver Goldsmith, Dog, Mad, 0 - Oliver Goldsmith Playwright and novelist · Ireland
+ A man’s own heart must ever be given to gain that of another. Feraz Zeid, December 23, 2023January 10, 2024, Oliver Goldsmith, Gains, Heart, 0 - Oliver Goldsmith Playwright and novelist · Ireland
Whatever may be our natural talents, the art of writing is not acquired all at once. Explain - Jean-Jacques Rousseau Philosopher · Switzerland
Literature flourishes best when it is half a trade and half an art. - William Ralph Inge Theologian and Anglican priest · England
To express truth is to write naturally, forcibly, and delicately. Explain - Jean de la Bruyere Writer · France
The pleasure we feel in criticizing robs us from being moved by very beautiful things. Explain - Jean de la Bruyere Writer · France
A mediocre mind thinks it writes divinely; a good mind thinks it writes reasonably. Explain - Jean de la Bruyere Writer · France
It is the glory and merit of some men to write well and of others not to write at all. Explain - Jean de la Bruyere Writer · France
He who will not listen to any advice, nor be corrected in his writings, is a rank pedant. Explain - Jean de la Bruyere Writer · France