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Smollett

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Smollett
Tobias George. 1721--71, Scottish novelist, whose picaresque satires include Roderick Random (1748), Peregrine Pickle (1751), and Humphry Clinker (1771)


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"I don't like them, sir," returned Captain Smollett.
Treasure Island by Stevenson, Robert Louis View in context
Fielding and Smollett could portray the beastliness of their day in the beastliest language; we have plenty of foul subjects to deal with in our day, but we are not allowed to approach them very near, even with nice and guarded forms of speech.
A Tramp Abroad by Twain, Mark View in context
I filled an application blank and the librarian handed me the collected and entirely unexpurgated works of Smollett in one huge volume.
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