Quotes from Oliver Goldsmith's books, and about them
The Vicar of Wakefield on Religious Courtship: “I have read the disputes between Thwackum and Square; the controversy between Robinson Crusoe and Friday the savage, and I am now employed in reading the controversy in Religious courtship'”
The Vicar of Wakefield on The Fair Penitent: “I mentioned before, who was come to dispose of tickets for the Fair Penitent, which was to be acted that evening, the part of Horatio by a young gentleman who had never appeared on any stage.”
Frankenstein on The Vicar of Wakefield: “…I believe I left him incredulous to the last, for his constant answer to my unwearied entreaties was the same as that of the Dutch schoolmaster in The Vicar of Wakefield: 'I have ten thousand florins a year without Greek, I eat heartily without Greek.”
Little Women on The Vicar of Wakefield: “She never finds herself very soon, so the minute her cap began to bob like a top-heavy dahlia, I whipped the _Vicar of Wakefield_ out of my pocket, and read away, with one eye on him and one on Aunt.”
David Copperfield on The Vicar of Wakefield: “From that blessed little room, Roderick Random, Peregrine Pickle, Humphrey Clinker, Tom Jones, the Vicar of Wakefield, Don Quixote, Gil Blas, and Robinson Crusoe, came out, a glorious host, to keep me company.”
Villette on The Vicar of Wakefield: “In English, they had been under my own charge, and hard work it was to get them to translate rationally a page of _The Vicar of Wakefield_.”
The Professor on The Vicar of Wakefield: “The "livre de lecture" was the "Vicar of Wakefield," much used in foreign schools because it is supposed to contain prime samples of conversational English; it might, however, have been a Runic scroll for any resemblance the words, as enunciated by Jules, bore to the language in ordinary use…”
The Bully Pulpit on The Vicar of Wakefield: “Aboard ship, they read aloud from Oliver Goldsmith's Vicar of Wakefield and the collected poems of Coleridge and Shelley in preparation for their visit to the English countryside.”