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Tobias George Smollet

Geburtstag: 1721
Todesdatum: 17. September 1771
Andere Namen: Tobias George Smollett

Tobias George Smollett war ein schottischer Arzt und Schriftsteller.

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„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).

„To exult
Ev'n o'er an enemy oppress'd, and heap
Affliction on the afflicted, is the mark
And the mean triumph of a dastard soul.“

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— Tobias Smollett
The Regicide (1749), Act II, scene vii.

„To send the injur'd unredress'd away,
How great soe'er th' offender, or the wrong'd
Howe'er obscure, is wicked—weak and vile:
Degrades, denies, and should dethrone a king!“

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— Tobias Smollett
The Regicide (1749), Act IV, scene ix.

„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.“

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— Tobias Smollett
Ode to Independence, strophe 1.

„Writing is all a lottery -- I have been a loser by the works of the greatest men of the age.“

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— Tobias Smollett, buch The Expedition of Humphry Clinker
The Expedition of Humphry Clinker (1771).

„Keen are the pangs
Of hapless love, and passion unapprov'd:
But where consenting wishes meet, and vows
Reciprocally breath'd, confirm the tie,
Joy rolls on joy, an inexhausted stream!
And virtue crowns the sacred scene.“

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— Tobias Smollett
The Regicide (1749), Act I, scene iii.

„As Love can exquisitely bless,
Love only feels the marvellous of pain;
Opens new veins of torture in the soul,
And wakes the nerve where agonies are born.“

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— Tobias Smollett
Misattributed, Edward Young, The Brothers (1753), Act V, scene i.

„Those sculptur'd halls my feet shall never tread,
Where varnish'd vice and vanity combin'd,
To dazzle and seduce, their banners spread,
And forge vile shackles for the free-born mind.“

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— Tobias Smollett
Ode to Independence, antistrophe 3.

„Facts are stubborn things.“

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— Tobias Smollett
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.