Act II, scene vii.
The Regicide (1749)
Zitate von Tobias George Smollet
Tobias George Smollet
Geburtstag: 1721
Todesdatum: 17. September 1771
Andere Namen: Tobias George Smollett
Tobias George Smollett war ein schottischer Arzt und Schriftsteller.
Zitate Tobias George Smollet
Edward Young, The Brothers (1753), Act V, scene i.
Misattributed
Translation of Gil Blas (1749), Book X, Chap. 1.
Also used by Bernard Mandeville in An Enquiry Into the Origin of Honour (1732), p. 162, and by Jared Elliot in Essay on Field Husbandry (1747), p. 35.
„Writing is all a lottery -- I have been a loser by the works of the greatest men of the age.“
— Tobias Smollett, buch The Expedition of Humphry Clinker
The Expedition of Humphry Clinker (1771).
„Thy fatal shafts unerring move,
I bow before thine altar, Love!“
— Tobias Smollett, buch The Adventures of Roderick Random
The Adventures of Roderick Random (1848), Chapter xl, reported in Bartlett's Quotations, 10th ed. (1919).