“Goldsmith, both in verse and prose, was one of the most delightful writers in the language. His verse flows like a limpid stream. His ease is quite unconscious. Everything in him is spontaneous, unstudied, unaffected, yet elegant, harmonious, graceful, and nearly faultless.”—Hazlitt.
“The ‘Traveller’ and the ‘Deserted Village’ scarcely claim any notice from me. They are in everyone’s hands; they live in everyone’s memory: they are felt in everyone’s heart; they are daily the delight of millions.”—Henry Neele.
“Sir, it is the great excellence of a writer to put into his book as much as his book will hold. Goldsmith has done this in his history. He has the art of saying everything he has to say in a pleasing manner.”—Dr. Johnson.
Vicar of Wakefield: Ideal Edition. Cloth, 25c. (11c); 10 oz
“The admirable ease and grace of the narrative as well as the pleasing truth with which the principal characters are designed, make the Vicar of Wakefield one of the most delicious morsels of fictitious composition on which the human mind was ever employed. We read the Vicar of Wakefield in youth; we return to it again and again, and bless the memory of an author who contrives so well to reconcile us to human nature.”—Sir Walter Scott.
She Stoops to Conquer: Ideal Edition. Cloth, 20c. (7c); 8 oz
She Stoops to Conquer.—“I know of no comedy for many years that has so much exhilarated an audience; that has answered so much the great end of comedy, making an audience merry.”—Samuel Johnson.
Life of Goldsmith: by Washington Irving. Elzevir Ed., gilt edges, 40c. (20c); cloth, 25c. (9c); 14 oz
“No poet’s letters in the world, not even those of Cowper, appear to us more interesting for the light they throw on the habits and feelings of the man who wrote them; and we think it will be also acknowledged that the simple gracefulness of their language is quite worthy of the author of ‘Wakefield.’”—London Quarterly Review.
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