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Jul 27, 2006 · The book delves into the life and works of Oliver Goldsmith, capturing his struggles, personality, and contributions to literature in a manner that highlights both his achievements and the circumstances that shaped his career.
- Black, William, 1841-1898
- GoldsmithEnglish Men of Letters Series
- English
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what is Joel Goldsmith? A teacher? A healer? They are suspect and off-putting words at best, to all but a very few, and they are words, too, that I cannot but feel the author himself would vigorously repudiate, since his whole philosophy is the denial of any personal element in either teaching or healing. I am reminded of a passage in this book.
- Preface
- Chapter I
- Chapter II
- Chapter III
- Chapter IV
- Chapter V
- Chapter Vi
- Chapter VII
- Chapter VIII
- Chapter IX
It is only right to acknowledge my indebtednessin the compilation of this volume to JohnForster, to whom as one of the most courageous,industrious, and sympathetic of the writers ofbiography, all students of Goldsmith must beprofoundly grateful. To several other writersI must also express my thanks, and to save thetime of my kind readers and to pre...
"THE BEST BELOVED OF ENGLISH WRITERS"
The Goldsmith family sprang originallyfrom Crayford, a nestling village in Kent.This southern county, in all its loveliness, canthus add this high honour to its other thoughnot greater glories. "To be the best belovedof English writers," said Thackeray, "what atitle that is for a man!" This he gave to Goldsmith.It is a title that none will dispute.Here is a love that will never pass away fromour hearts. Of Oliver Goldsmith, as poet andnovelist, essay-writer, wit and playwright, itmay be said...
"THE DESERTED VILLAGE"
The wandering boy, stricken with grief atthe pain and the poverty he sees, alike intown and village in Ireland, foreshadows andunveils the coming man, who, knowing hisown anxieties, was ever more distressed bythe cares and afflictions he beheld than bythose through which he was at any time himselfthe sufferer. In all the careers of the essentially great,there are times when laughter will mingle withthe honour we bestow, and compassion oustour adoration from its throne. Laughtermay grow derisi...
"THE TRAVELLER"
At the University of Edinburgh, Goldsmithbecame a more earnest student. He wascertainly not without the higher aspirations ofthe sublime profession to which circumstanceand necessity rather than aptitude or inclinationhad called him. Whilst it may be questionedwhether he ever had the poetic imaginationof the physician, he never allowed the honourin which he held the vocation to lessen, andnever lost the satisfaction he himself cherishedthrough his association with this calling. Tothe last he...
LONDON
Young Oliver Goldsmith, diffident and with no adroitness of address,was not one of those authors who can take publishers by storm, andfame with a wave of the hand. He was a nervous man. Although one ofthe most collected of writers, he had to be fully at his ease before,in conversation or the common intercourse of society, he could behimself and reveal that force of mind and invincibility of personalitythat mark his influence and creates his charm. He knew and felt hisweakness. When Johnson na...
"THE CITIZEN OF THE WORLD"
Goldsmith's first victory was the Inquiryinto the State of Polite Learning. The Inquirywas written at a time when itsauthor had suffered from the tyranny and themercilessness of booksellers. This explains hisonslaught upon this then ungenerous craft.Injury had been heaped on insult. Disappointmentand despair were tearing and gnawing atthe poor man's heart. The demon imp of pettypoverty first starved him and then laughed athis insufficing fare, reduced him to rags andridiculed his wretchedness...
THE LITERARY CLUB
Goldsmith's income accrued, notthrough royalties upon his few great andimmortal works, but from arduous and endlessephemeral tasks. This ceaseless taxation ofthe mental faculties probably represents themost exhausting of all the processes of gaininga decent livelihood. Never the strongest ofmen, these relentless intellectual exactions gavethe brain no rest, and kept the physical framein a condition of constant nervous weakness.Writing from a bed of sickness, he tells hisemployer almost pitifu...
DEBTS AND DIGNITIES
All through his life Goldsmith was greatlygiven to grand clothes. It is a pity thatgrand clothes were not always greatly given tohim, for he never appeared quite able to payfor them. Although he became deeply involvedin debt, he never cultivated luxurious or unworthydelights. His pleasures were of thesimplest. His insolvent condition was due, trueenough, to pleasure and his foremost luxury—theluxury of ceaseless charities that he couldas ill afford as a coach-and-four. He was oneof the hearts...
CONSUMMATE COMEDY
In 1771 Goldsmith was full of hope for thatcapital essay in comedy, She Stoops to Conquer.Two years passed before he could obtainits definite acceptance. He found his managernot in Garrick, as one might have anticipated,but again in Colman. The pretty piece appearedat Covent Garden. Tried as Goldsmithhad been ere The Good-natured Man was produced,the negotiations and delays about SheStoops to Conquer were not less torturing.Colman kept the manuscript in his hands formonths and months without...
THE POET AND THE ESSAYIST
Successful in every sphere, it is asan essayist that, amongst the immortals,Goldsmith sways signal and supreme distinction.As a poet, not less than as a playwright,he triumphed in his own, and inspired andinfluenced the coming age. As a biographer,he readily gained contemporary celebrity, boththrough the sympathetic understanding of hisheart and the delightful facility of his literarystyle. In his own time, he occupied, throughthe high and undoubted merits of his works, aneminent position amo...
in The Infinite Way by Joel S. Goldsmith1 In Chapter 10 of The Contemplative Life , Joel identified eight chapters in The Infinite Way writings that he said Infinite Way students should know “as well as they know their own names.”
His voluminous lesser-known works include An Enquiry into the Present State of Polite Learning in Europe (1759), Retaliation (Essays, 1774), Memoirs of M. de Voltaire (1761); The History of England (1771), The Citizen of the World or Letters from a Chinese Philosopher, residing in London, to his Friend in the East (1760-1761), Plutarch’s Lives, ...
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