Word: smollett
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...involved and somewhat ridiculous plot which serves as a skeleton for this lively and beautiful comedy is taken from the admirable inventions of the late great Tobias George Smollett (1721-71) in his novel The Adventures of Peregrine Pickle. Likewise the strange eloquence of the Commodore who prefaces his simplest statements with "Hear the news," whose expression of habitual astonishment is "d'you say?" and who addresses his nephew, with deep affection, as a "human mistake...
...Sterne and Smollett", Professor Hurlbut, Sever...
...that it would suit the eyes and the minds of their generations. But, repeated the lady, times and literary tastes and values have so completely changed! And how is one to know today if an author will endure? With the Brontes and Dickens and Browning and Thackeray and Smollett and Sterne and Fielding it was an easy matter. They rarely broke off sharply with the traditions of their day, said the lady. I did not agree with this but I admitted her problem. And it seemed to me that a solution was not too difficult...
...Dronte acts and thinks like a character of Defoe or Smollett. His life is a coarse one spent as a student carousing at a German university, as a musketeer, calloused by army life, and as a wanderer, arrogant one moment and miserable the next. He has a taste of intensely pure and happy married life only to be dashed to the depths of depraved vagabondage. He witnesses the great social changes of his time both from the rank of a nobleman and from the position of a beggar...
...Authors Oliver Wendell Holmes, Eugene Sue, Victorien Sardou, Tobias Smollett, Dr. David Ramsay, were first doctors ; and Dr. Benjamin Rush was a signer of the Declaration of Independence...