While Resignation gently slopes away, And all his prospects brightening to the last, His heaven commences ere the world be past.
Oliver GoldsmithBy sports like these are all their cares beguil'd; The sports of children satisfy the child.
Oliver GoldsmithLife at the greatest and best is but a froward child, that must be humored and coaxed a little till it falls asleep, and then all the care is over.
Oliver GoldsmithWe may affirm of Mr. Buffon, that which has been said of the chemists of old; though he may have failed in attaining his principal aim, of establishing a theory, yet he has brought together such a multitude of facts relative to the history of the earth, and the nature of its fossil productions, that curiosity finds ample compensation, even while it feels the want of conviction.
Oliver Goldsmith