Word: smollett
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Among the books of a general nature "The Letters of Tobias Smollett, M.D." is of great interest. These letters which were collected and edited by Edward S. Noyes, Assistant Professor of English at Yale, contain 19 which have never been published before and establish several new facts in a life of which very little is known...
...spring announcements by the Harvard University Press is as follows: "Sheridan to Robertson," by Ernest Bradle Watson '19, "Antoine and the Theatre Libre," by Samuel M. Waxman '07. "Essays of Montaigne," by George B. Ives, "The Wedgwood Medallion of Samuel Johnson," by Chauncey B. Tinker. "The Letters of Tobias Smollett M. D.," edited by Edward S. Noyes "A Gorgeous Gallery of Gallant Inventions," edited by Hyder E. Rollins, "Ballads and Songs of the Shanty-Boy," edited by Franz Richby, "Harvard Studies in Classical Philology," by a Committee of the Classical Instructors of Harvard University, "Four Introductory Lectures," "La Methode Comparative...
...Maynadier is talking on Sterne and Smollett in English 28 at 10 o'clock this morning in the New Lecture Hall, a lecture well worth attending. Biology I, however, is a course that is so embracing in its scope that almost every lecture is attractive to one who is not by profession a biologist. Professor Parker is speaking this morning on the geographical distribution of animals...
...have forgotten where it ended. In those two hours of conversation I learned more about medical history and more about the persistence of certain queer traits in human nature than could be got from months of study by the most approved method of research. What he said was like Smollett and Gibbon: Smollett's frankness without his coarseness, and Gibbon's erudition and lucidity without his conventionality. In talk of this kind I have never met the man who was Osler's equal...
...joiner. . . . When just 8 or 10 years of age, I read through Voltaire's history of Louis XIV and Peter the Great, and looked up all the French words I did not know and wrote them out. A little later, there was read, aloud to us Hume and Smollett's history, as well as Buchanan's, Rollin's and others; likewise Mitford's Greece; while in the evening my father read aloud Milton's Paradise Lost, Cowper's Task . . . and Dryden's works. With an Italian master, we read the works of Tasso and Metastasio. Our education was good inasmuch...