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Usage

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This template may be used on Wiktionary entry pages to quote from the first posthumous collection of Oliver Goldsmith's works entitled The Poetical and Dramatic Works of Oliver Goldsmith, M.B. (1st edition, 1780, 2 volumes) edited by Thomas Evans. It can be used to create a link to online versions of the work] at Google Books and the Internet Archive:

Where a specific quotation template exists (for example, {{RQ:Goldsmith Deserted Village}}), use it instead of this template.

Parameters

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The template takes the following parameters:

  • |1= or |volume=mandatory: the volume number quoted from in uppercase Roman numerals, either |volume=I or |volume=II.
  • |2=, |chapter=, or |title=mandatory: the name of the chapter or title quoted from. If quoting from one of the titles indicated in the second column of the following table, give the parameter the value indicated in the first column:
The Poetical and Dramatic Works of Oliver Goldsmith, M.B.
Parameter value Result  First page number
Volume I
Dedication To Sir Joshua Reynolds (by Evans) page v
Laberius A Prologue, Written and Spoken by the Poet Laberius, a Roman Knight, whom Cæsar Forced upon the Stage. Preserved by Macrobius. (1759) page 3
Melmoth Commendatory Verses. Extract from an Elegant Poem Written by Courtney Melmoth, Esq. on the Death of Eminent English Poets. (By Samuel Jackson Pratt.) page lii
Memoirs Memoirs of the Life and Writings of Oliver Goldsmith, M.B. (anonymous author) page i
Venison The Haunch of Venison, a Poetical Epistle to Lord Clare (1765) page 81
Woty On the Death of Dr. Goldsmith (by William Woty) page l (Roman number 50)
Volume II
For help with adding other titles and publication dates to the template, please leave a message on the talk page or at "Wiktionary:Grease pit".
  • |subchapter= or |subtitle= – the name of a subchapter or subtitle quoted from.
  • |3= or |page=, or |pages=mandatory in some cases: the page number(s) quoted from in Arabic or lowercase Roman numerals, as the case may be. If quoting a range of pages, note the following:
    • Separate the first and last page number of the range with an en dash, like this: |pages=10–11 or |pages=x–xi.
    • You must also use |pageref= to indicate the page to be linked to (usually the page on which the Wiktionary entry appears).
This parameter must be specified to have the template link to an online version of the work.

In volume I, in the "Memoirs of the Life and Writings of Oliver Goldsmith, M.B.", the pagination restarts from page i after the dedication.

  • |4=, |text=, or |passage= – the passage to be quoted.
  • |footer= – a comment on the passage quoted.
  • |brackets= – use |brackets=on to surround a quotation with brackets. This indicates that the quotation either contains a mere mention of a term (for example, "some people find the word manoeuvre hard to spell") rather than an actual use of it (for example, "we need to manoeuvre carefully to avoid causing upset"), or does not provide an actual instance of a term but provides information about related terms.

Examples

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  • Wikitext:
    • {{RQ:Goldsmith Works|volume=I|title=Venison|page=83|passage=Thanks, my lord, for your veniſon, for finer or fatter / Never rang'd in a foreſt, or ſmoak'd in a platter; / {{...}} / I had thoughts, in my '''chambers''', to place it in view, / To be ſhevvn to my friends as a piece of virtu; {{...}}}}; or
    • {{RQ:Goldsmith Works|I|Venison|83|Thanks, my lord, for your veniſon, for finer or fatter / Never rang'd in a foreſt, or ſmoak'd in a platter; / {{...}} / I had thoughts, in my '''chambers''', to place it in view, / To be ſhevvn to my friends as a piece of virtu; {{...}}}}
  • Result:
    • 1765, Oliver Goldsmith, “The Haunch of Venison, a Poetical Epistle to Lord Clare”, in [Thomas Evans], editor, The Poetical and Dramatic Works of Oliver Goldsmith, M.B. [], volume I, London: [] H[enry] Goldney, for Messieurs Rivington, [], published 1780, →OCLC, page 83:
      Thanks, my lord, for your veniſon, for finer or fatter / Never rang'd in a foreſt, or ſmoak'd in a platter; / [] / I had thoughts, in my chambers, to place it in view, / To be ſhevvn to my friends as a piece of virtu; []