Tobias George Smollett (bapt. 19 March 1721 – 17 September 1771) was a Scottish writer and surgeon. He was best known for writing picaresque novels such...
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Peter Smollett (1912–1980), Austrian-born British journalist and Russian spy Tobias Smollett (1721–1771), Scottish author Captain Alexander Smollett, the...
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The Adventures of Peregrine Pickle (category Novels by Tobias Smollett)
Adventures of Peregrine Pickle is a picaresque novel by the Scottish author Tobias Smollett, first published in 1751 and revised and published again in 1758. It...
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violation. Reprisal may also refer to: The Reprisal, a 1757 play by Tobias Smollett Reprisal!, a 1956 American film directed by George Sherman Reprisal...
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British publication appearing from 1756 to 1817. It was first edited by Tobias Smollett, from 1756 to 1763. Contributors included Samuel Johnson, David Hume...
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lawyer) Tobias Sippel (German football goalkeeper) Tobias Sjokvist (born 1995), Swedish ice hockey player Tobias Smollett (Scottish author) Tobias Steinhauser...
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return to Florence, a tradition that the Scottish literary traveller Tobias Smollett already noted in 1766, which has kept the snout in a state of polished...
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Charles Jervas (1742) Tobias Smollett (1755) (revision of Charles Jervas) O. M. Brack Jr. (2003) (revision of the 1755 Tobias Smollett revision of Charles...
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Eritrea as of the early twenty-first century.: 20 Smollett, Tobias (1900). The works of Tobias Smollett, Volume 11. Constable. p. 216. OCLC 646851669. Retrieved...
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Travels Through France and Italy (category Works by Tobias Smollett)
Through France and Italy is a work of travel literature by Tobias Smollett, published in 1766. Smollett used the opportunity to deride the social norms of the...
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Locker (i.e. the Sea). An early description of Davy Jones occurs in Tobias Smollett's The Adventures of Peregrine Pickle, published in 1751: This same Davy...
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Smelfungus (section Smollett in Europe)
satire of Tobias Smollett, himself author of a volume of Travels Through France and Italy, which was published in 1766. Sterne had met Smollett during his...
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The Expedition of Humphry Clinker (category Novels by Tobias Smollett)
last of the picaresque novels of Tobias Smollett, published in London on 17 June 1771 (three months before Smollett's death), and is considered by many...
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The Adventures of Roderick Random (category Novels by Tobias Smollett)
Roderick Random is a picaresque novel by Tobias Smollett, first published in 1748. It is partially based on Smollett's experience as a naval-surgeon's mate...
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British History Online. University of London. Retrieved 19 January 2020. Tobias Smollett: The Expedition of Humphry Clinker, ed. Lewis M. Knapp and Paul-Gabriel...
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Bailey and hanged, drawn and quartered on 19 January 1661. According to Tobias Smollett, Venner and his followers "affirmed to the last that if they had been...
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Works of Tobias Smollett, MD, with Memoirs of his Life and Writings, p. 446–447, at Google Books The Miscellaneous Works of Tobias Smollett, MD, with...
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novel satirising Richardson's Pamela, and between Laurence Sterne and Tobias Smollett). Plays were written to make fun of plays or to counter the success...
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journalists (Ned Ward, 1700 and Peter Motteux, 1712) as well as novelists (Tobias Smollett, 1755). In general, one can see these three axes, drama, journalism...
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Atom, the narrator of The History and Adventures of an Atom satire by Tobias Smollett Atom™, an alias of the German musician Uwe Schmidt (born 1968) Atom...
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BBC. BBC. Retrieved 17 July 2016. "BBC Radio 4 - Classic Serial, Tobias Smollett - The Expedition of Humphry Clinker, Episode 1". BBC. BBC. Retrieved...
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Feeling Louis-Sébastien Mercier – L'An 2440, rêve s'il en fut jamais Tobias Smollett – The Expedition of Humphry Clinker Sophie von La Roche – Geschichte...
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tongue into one's cheek once signified contempt. For example, in Tobias Smollett's The Adventures of Roderick Random, which was published in 1748, the...
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and Fletcher's The Scornful Lady, published in 1616. Jonathan Swift, Tobias Smollett, and Henry Fielding use Abigail in this generic sense, as does Charlotte...
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Gibson by Bruce Bedford, 1992 The Expedition of Humphry Clinker by Tobias Smollett, Classic Serial on BBC Radio 4, 1992 Crisp and Even Brightly by Alick...
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in literature – The Life and Adventures of Sir Launcelot Greaves by Tobias Smollett; Polly Honeycombe by George Colman the Elder; The Boors by Carlo Goldoni;...
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Headword: yankee. The Life and Adventures of Sir Launcelot Greaves, Tobias Smollett, chapter 3 Mathews (1951) p 1896 See Mathews, (1951) pp. 1896–98 and...
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Patrick Johnston) James Balfour of Pilrig James Smollett of Bonhill (grandfather of Tobias Smollett) Robert Chieslie of Dalry, former Lord Provost of...
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Riley's translation is based on the translation by Tobias Smollett, 1776 (op. cit. p. xvii). Smollett, Tobias, The Expedition of Humphry Clinker (1771) London:...
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London (1963) Calder-Marshall edited and wrote the introduction to: Tobias Smollett (1950) The Bodley Head Jack London (four volumes: 1963–66) Prepare...
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