Tobias Smollett quotes
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“Some folks are wise and some are otherwise.”
-- Tobias SmollettSource : Tobias Smollett, Sir Walter Scott (1835). “Select works of Tobias Smollett ...: With a memoir of the life and writings of the author”, p.24
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“Nature and wisdom are not, but should be, companions.”
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“True courage scorns to vent her prowess in a storm of words; and to the valiant action speaks alone.”
-- Tobias SmollettSource : Tobias Smollett, John Moore (1872). “The Works of Tobias Smollett, M. D. With Memoirs of His Life: to which is Prefixed A View of the Commencement and Progress of Romance”, p.189
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“Nature I'll court in her sequester'd haunts, By mountain, meadow, streamlet, grove, or cell; Where the pois'd lark his evening ditty chants, And health, and peace, and contemplation dwell.”
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“False as the fowler's artful snare.”
-- Tobias SmollettSource : Samuel Johnson, Thomas Parnell, Thomas Gray, Tobias Smollett, George Gilfillan (1855). “The Poetical Works of Johnson: Parnell, Gray, and Smollett, with Memoirs, Critical Dissertations, and Explanatory Notes”, p.251
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“To the valiant actions speak alone.”
-- Tobias SmollettSource : Tobias Smollett, John Moore (1872). “The Works of Tobias Smollett, M. D. With Memoirs of His Life: to which is Prefixed A View of the Commencement and Progress of Romance”, p.189
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“A man's opinion of danger varies at different times, in consequence of an irregular tide of animal spirits; and he is actuated by considerations which he dares not avow.”
-- Tobias SmollettSource : Tobias Smollett (1822). “The History of England: From the Revolution in 1688, to the Death of George II. Designed as a Continuation of Hume”, p.184
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“Ridiculous modes, invented by ignorance, and adopted by folly.”
-- Tobias SmollettSource : Tobias Smollett (1806). “Adventures of an Atom. Expedition of Humphrey Clinker”, p.363
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“Deep in the frozen regions of the north, A goddess violated brought thee forth, Immortal Liberty!”
-- Tobias SmollettSource : Tobias Smollett, John Moore (1872). “The Works of Tobias Smollett, M. D. With Memoirs of His Life: to which is Prefixed A View of the Commencement and Progress of Romance”, p.334
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“The great Cham of literature. (Samuel Johnson)”
-- Tobias SmollettSource : Letter to John Wilkes, 16 Mar. 1759
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“The Highlanders regale themselves with whisky. They find it an excellent preservation against the winter cold. It is given with great success to the infants in the confluent smallpox.”
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“Of this diversion the Scots are so fond, that, when the weather will permit, you may see a multitude of all ranks, from the senator of justice to the lowest tradesman, mingled together, in their shirts, and following the balls with utmost eagerness.”
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“Every shot has its commission, d'ye see? We must all die at one time, as the saying is.”
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“On Leven's banks, while free to rove, And tune the rural pipe to love, I envied not the happiest swain That ever trod the Arcadian plain. Pure stream! in whose transparent wave My youthful limbs I wont to lave; No torrents stain thy limpid source, No rocks impede thy dimpling course, That sweetly warbles o'er its bed, With white, round, polish'd pebbles spread.”
-- Tobias SmollettSource : Tobias Smollett (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Tobias Smollett (Illustrated)”, p.2159, Delphi Classics
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“Number three is always fortunate.”
-- Tobias SmollettSource : Tobias George Smollett, Tobias Smollett (1831). “The adventures of Peregrine Pickle: In which are included, Memoirs of a lady of quality. In four volumes. ...”, p.58
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“Thy fatal shafts unerring move; I bow before thine altar, Love!”
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“A mere index hunter, who held the eel of science by the tail.”
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“Who bravely dares must sometimes risk a fall.”
-- Tobias SmollettSource : Tobias Smollett (2014). “Poems, Plays, and "The Briton"”, p.36, University of Georgia Press
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“I find that the old Roman baths of this quarter, were found covered by an old burying ground, belonging to the Abbey; through which, in all probability, the water drains in its passage; so that as we drink the decoction of the living bodies at the Pump-room, we swallow the strainings of rotten bones and carcasses at the private bath - I vow to God, the very idea turns my stomach!”
-- Tobias SmollettSource : Tobias Smollett (1809). “The Miscellaneous Works of Tobias Smollett: Sir Launcelot Greaves. Humphry Clinker”
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“I think for my part one half of the nation is mad - and the other not very sound.”
-- Tobias SmollettSource : 'The Adventures of Sir Launcelot Greaves' (1762) ch. 6
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“A mere index hunter, who held the eel of science by the tail. Index-hunter is a term used mockingly, meaning one who acquires superficial knowledge merely by consulting indexes. The '[holding] the eel of science by the tail' allusion was used in 1728 by Alexander Pope (q.v.).”
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“And hearts resolved and hands prepared The blessings they enjoy to guard.”
-- Tobias SmollettSource : Samuel Johnson, Thomas Parnell, Thomas Gray, Tobias Smollett, George Gilfillan (1855). “The Poetical Works of Johnson: Parnell, Gray, and Smollett, with Memoirs, Critical Dissertations, and Explanatory Notes”, p.245
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“One wit, like a knuckle of ham in soup, gives a zest and flavour to the dish, but more than one serves only to spoil the pottage.”
-- Tobias SmollettSource : Tobias Smollett (1820). “The expedition of Humphry Clinker”, p.161
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“Thy spirit, Independence, let me share! Lord of the lion-heart and eagle-eye thy steps I follow with my bosom bare, nor heed the storm that howls along the sky.”
-- Tobias SmollettSource : Tobias Smollett (1806). “Life of Smollett, by R. Anderson. Roderick Random”, p.163
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“Writing is all a lottery -- I have been a loser by the works of the greatest men of the age.”
-- Tobias SmollettSource : Tobias Smollett, Sir Walter Scott (1835). “Select works of Tobias Smollett ...: With a memoir of the life and writings of the author”, p.312
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“The capital is become an overgrown monster; which, like a dropsical head, will in time leave the body and extremities without nourishment and support.”
-- Tobias SmollettSource : 'The Expedition of Humphry Clinker' (1771) vol. 1, letter from Matthew Bramble, 29 May
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