Oliver Goldsmith himself was always very proud of being a cousin of the man who took Quebec.
My cousin Goldsmith has sent me the finest young pointer that ever was seen; he eclipses Workie, and outdoes all.
Goldsmith Building, erected in 1861, stands in no relation to the poet save that it is near the stone which serves to mark (not very exactly) his burial place.
Some years before Oliver Goldsmith removed to Brick Court, the Temple was the residence of another poet--William Cowper.
Why, Sir, you will find ten thousand fit to do what they did, before you find one who does what Goldsmith has done.
Goldsmith has acquired more fame than all the officers last war, who were not Generals.
I observed, that Goldsmith was on the other extreme; for he spoke at all ventures.
Goldsmith did not reside in the temple till 1763 (ib.
Irish law student who had chambers nearGoldsmith in the temple.
Goldsmith asserted that Warburton was a weak writer.
Goldsmith said of biography:--'It furnishes us with an opportunity of giving advice freely and without offence.
When Goldsmith and I published, each of us something, at the same time[747], we were given to understand that we might review each other.
This passage is copied by Goldsmith in She Stoops to Conquer, act iii.
I have made a portrait in charcoal of Master Jan,[59] goldsmith of Brussels, also one of his wife.
My father's father was called Anton Dürer; he came as a lad to a goldsmith in the said little town and learnt the craft under him.
My Hoyle with Cotton went; oppressed, My Taylor too must sail; To save my Goldsmith from arrest, In vain I offered Bayle.
Milton and Goldsmith have been known best as poets, Johnson and Macaulay as writers of prose.
Both Sterne and Goldsmith wrote in the reign of George II.
Goldsmith was particularly fond of Islington, it was his custom to enjoy what he termed his shoemakers’ holiday, which was a day of great festivity with the Poet.
Before residing in the Tower, Goldsmith lived near here, in the house of Mrs. Elizabeth Fleming, 1762.
Unfortunately Goldsmith was removed to Elphin at the age of nine, and although he retained an affection for Irish music all his life, his intimate connection with Irish Ireland apparently ceased at this point.
We have seen that Goldsmith was removed from an Irish atmosphere at a tender age, and this is not the only instance of the frowning of fortune upon the native literature.
No surer proof of the pre-eminence of Irish wit and humor can be found than in the fact that, Shakespeare alone excepted, no writers of comedy have held the boards longer or more triumphantly than Goldsmith and his brother Irishman, Sheridan.
A little more than a year laterGoldsmith died of a nervous fever, the result of overwork and anxiety, and was buried in the burial ground of the Temple Church.
At his first school at Lissoy, Oliver Goldsmith came under Thomas Byrne, a regular shanachie, possessed of all the traditional lore, with a remarkable gift for versifying.
For example, there is no Irishman who is not proud of Molyneux and Swift, of Goldsmith and Burke, of Grattan and Sheridan.
Goldsmith might have proved a worthier successor; but though his genius for style was large, his capacity for sustained indignation was limited.
In The Deserted Village, on the other hand, Goldsmith employed the classical graces to point a moral which from the classical point of view was false.
The Deserted Village was in point of fact an imaginative idyll,--the supreme idyll of English poetry; but Goldsmith insisted that it was a realistic record of actual conditions.
How that her brother hee was dead and gone; In post her goldsmiththen from London went, By whom the message was dispatcht anon.
But the anticipation was not realized, and Ferdinand had not even the money to pay the goldsmith for his work.
The richest goldsmith of the city of breweries displayed in his window a crown, sceptre, orb and sword, which he had made to the order of the Prince of Bulgaria.
As if the time were ripe for all these things, nearly at the moment when the first printers were distinguishing themselves by serious works, a Florentine goldsmith accidentally discovered the cutting of cast metal.
The collection of the goldsmith Magliabecchi, that was open to readers since 1747, has been transported there.
To reverse the well-known antithesis in which Goldsmith sums up his description of Italy,--the only growth that had not dwindled in it was man.
Goldsmith could assert that in an essay of a page or two it is even a merit to be superficial; and few there are who possess, with Goldsmith, the pure literary ability of being superficial with good effect.
The goldsmith took a pair of scales, weighed the dish, and assured him that his plate would fetch by weight sixty pieces of gold, which he offered to pay down immediately.
Nichols suggests that Partridge may have been Queen Mary’s goldsmith of that name, apparently resident in the Tower during the following year.
Wherefore from four of us the newes was sent How that her brother hee was dead and gone; In post her goldsmith then from London went, By whom the message was dispatcht anon.
During his second residence in Rome, Cellini met with extensive patronage, and he was taken into the Pope's service in the double capacity ofgoldsmith and musician.
Whenever he heard of a goldsmith who was famous in any particular branch, he immediately determined to surpass him.
Goldsmith spoke of himself, as a plant that flowered late.
Having got mixed up in a quarrel with some of the townspeople, he was banished for six months, during which period he worked with a goldsmith at Sienna, gaining further experience in jewellery and gold-working.
This master was followed by Baccio Baldini, a goldsmith of Florence, who, not having much power of design, took all that he did from the invention and design of Sandro Botticelli.
This head came into the possession of King Francis, together with the other things; and there is an impression of it at the present day in Verona, which belongs to the goldsmith Zoppo, who was Matteo's disciple.
As a scholar, the little goldsmith had not distinguished himself.
His father was a goldsmith and a popular part of his work was the making of golden garlands for the hair of rich Italian ladies.
In those days, the craft of the goldsmith was closely allied with the profession of the painter, because the smith had to create his own designs, and that called for much talent.
The effect of the use of this gold was very beautiful, if unusual, and it may have been that his apprenticeship as a goldsmith suggested to him such a device.
Turner's art beginning was at six years of age, on the occasion of a visit his father paid to a goldsmith of whose hair curling and peruquing he had charge.
The prejudice against having an artist in the family was dying out, and as a prosperous goldsmith we may believe that his father had means enough to give his son good opportunities.
The father became the goldworker for a master goldsmith of Nuremberg named Hieronymus Holper, and very soon the new employee had fallen in love with his master's daughter.
His customers thus have to take the weight on his word; and they do not always care about that, for, as the saying goes, a goldsmith would cheat his own mother on the scales.
The goldsmith himself is at work with his blowpipe at a little brazier, softening and shaping a piece of gold into a bangle for a customer.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "goldsmith" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
