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"I hate the French cookery, and abominate garlick," Tobias Smollett told his readers 245 years ago, with a snooty disregard for foreigners that runs through too much travel writing today.
Travel writing: Lost art in search of a lost world | Editorial 2011
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"I hate the French cookery, and abominate garlick," Tobias Smollett told his readers 245 years ago, with a snooty disregard for foreigners that runs through too much travel writing today.
Travel writing: Lost art in search of a lost world | Editorial 2011
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Like Tobias Smollett "I think for my part one half of the nation is mad - and the other not very sound", see why on the Watermelon Blog.
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Tobias Smollett, a surgeon before he turned novelist, commented that if you saw a person with a Friday face and a body very thin, you might at once conclude that he had that day come out of Bethlehem or a hospital.
Bedlam Catharine Arnold 2008
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Tobias Smollett, a surgeon before he turned novelist, commented that if you saw a person with a Friday face and a body very thin, you might at once conclude that he had that day come out of Bethlehem or a hospital.
Bedlam Catharine Arnold 2008
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Like Tobias Smollett "I think for my part one half of the nation is mad - and the other not very sound".
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Tobias Smollett, a surgeon before he turned novelist, commented that if you saw a person with a Friday face and a body very thin, you might at once conclude that he had that day come out of Bethlehem or a hospital.
Bedlam Catharine Arnold 2008
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In a popular English novel of the day, The Expedition of Humphrey Clinker, Tobias Smollett wrote that to be a country gentleman one was "obliged to keep horses, hounds, carriages, with suitable numbers of servants, and maintain an elegant table for the entertainment of his neighbors."
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Highlights: The Tobias Smollett translation of Don Quixote is "a classic in its own right" ...
The Elegant Variation: TEV 2007
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Highlights: The Tobias Smollett translation of Don Quixote is "a classic in its own right" ...
PEN REPORTS: DAY TWO TEV 2007
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