Oliver Goldsmith
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Oct 8, 2026
Jaya RowGUEST
... or things like that.
Jaya RowGUEST
I mean, Oliver Goldsmith had no money.
Jaya RowGUEST
He was thrown out of a, his, uh, apartment because he didn't have money to pay rent, but what a poet he was.
Ajeya RowHOST
Yeah.
Bruce KuckuckNARRATOR
This recording is in the public domain.
Bruce KuckuckNARRATOR
Song by Oliver Goldsmith.
Bruce KuckuckNARRATOR
Read for LibriVox.org.
Bruce KuckuckNARRATOR
The wretch condemn'd with life to part Still, still on hope relies; And every pang that rends the heart Bids expectation rise.
Richard BarakatGUEST
I declare this winding, gyring, spiring treadmill of a stair is my ancestral stair.
Richard BarakatGUEST
That Goldsmith and the dean, Berkeley and Burke have traveled there.
Richard BarakatGUEST
Swift, beating on his breast in sibling frenzy blind because the heart in his blood-sodden breast had dragged him down into mankind.
Richard BarakatGUEST
Goldsmith, deliberately sipping at the honeypot of his mind, and hot ear-headed Burke that proved the state a dream.
Richard BarakatGUEST
That this unconquerable labyrinth of the birds century after century cast but dead leaves to mathematical equality.
Richard BarakatGUEST
And God appointed Berkeley that proved all things a dream.
Richard BarakatGUEST
It is a, a portal and a power unto itself, not just stone.
Richard BarakatGUEST
And then he invokes his great ancestry among the writers and philosophers of Ireland, as he's being the heir of.
TanyaHOST
And so all through Robinson Crusoe, I appreciated, you know, the theme of providence and the, you know, it was very thought provoking, but I didn't like it.
TanyaHOST
Cheryl's favorite was The Vicar of Wakefield, Cheryl Lowe by Oliver Goldsmith, which I did read because it was one of her favorite books.
TanyaHOST
When
PaulHOST
was that written?
speaker_1NARRATOR
There were combs and toothbrushes.
speaker_1NARRATOR
There were books, including a copy of Oliver Goldsmith's The Vicar of Wakefield, a novel about a country parson and his family.
speaker_1NARRATOR
There was silverware, forks, knives, and spoons bearing the crests and initials of several of the expedition's officers.
speaker_1NARRATOR
And there were rolls of sheet lead cut from the lining of a tin provision chest and lengths of slowly coiled canvas.
Paul StevensNARRATOR
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Paul StevensNARRATOR
The Life of Richard Nash Esquire, Late Master of Ceremonies at Bath, by Oliver Goldsmith.
Paul StevensNARRATOR
Edited by Peter Cunningham.
Paul StevensNARRATOR
By this wise and just act, all Nash's future hopes of succeeding by the tables were blown up.
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Paul StevensNARRATOR
she was unable to keep company for want of the elegancies of dress, which are the usual passports among the polite, and was too haughty to seem to want them.
Paul StevensNARRATOR
The fashionable, the amusing, and the polite in society now seldom visited her, and from being once the object of every eye, she was now deserted by all, and preyed upon by the bitter reflections of her own imprudence.
Paul StevensNARRATOR
THE LIFE OF RICHARD NASH ESQUIRE LATE MASTER OF CEREMONIES AT BATH by Oliver Goldsmith Edited by Peter Cunningham Thus resolved, she sat down at her dining-room window, And with cool intrepidity wrote the following lines On one of the panes of the window.
Paul StevensNARRATOR
O death, thou pleasing end of human woe, Thou cure for life, thou greatest good below, Still mayst thou fly the coward and the slave, And thy soft slumbers only bless the brave.
E.G. MarshallSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
On the other hand, like proverbs, quotes tend to contradict themselves.
E.G. MarshallSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
It was Oliver Goldsmith who said, "Conscience is a coward, and those faults it has not strength enough to prevent, it seldom has justice enough to accuse." That contradiction is what this story is all about.
speaker_4VOICE_ACTOR
What are you doing in that closet?
Jada RowlandVOICE_ACTOR
Oh, why Aunt Hester, I was just trying to make myself at home.
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