Oliver Goldsmith Quotes:
Ocupation: Novelist
Life: November 10, 1730 - April 4, 1774
Birthday: November 10
Death: April 4
Fine declamation does not consist in flowery periods, delicate allusions of musical cadences, but in a plain, open, loose style, where the periods are long and obvious, where the same thought is often exhibited in several points of view.
source: Oliver Goldsmith (1856). “The Works of Oliver Goldsmith: Comprising His Poems, Comedies, Essays, and Vicar of Wakefield”, p.281
topic: Views, Long, Musical, Declamation, Allusion
