4 Quotes & Sayings By Tobias Smollett

Tobias Smollett was born in Edinburgh, Scotland in 1721. His family moved to England when he was still a child. He studied law at the University of Edinburgh and was called to the bar in 1746. He later wrote his first novel, Roderick Random, in 1748 Read more

The British Library holds unpublished manuscripts written by Tobias Smollett including his memoirs of the War of the Austrian Succession which were published in 1775.

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I can't help suspecting, that there is, or may be some regurgitation from the bath into the cistern of the pump. In that case, what a felicate beveridge is quaffed by the drinkers; medicated with the sweat and the dirt, and dandriff; and the abominable of various kinds, from twenty different diseased bodies, parboiling in the kettle below. Tobias Smollett
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I find that the old Roman baths of this quarter, were found covered by an old burying ground, belonging to the Abbey; through which, in all probability, the water drains in its passage; so that as we drink the decoction of the living bodies at the Pump-room, we swallow the strainings of rotten bones and carcasses at the private bath - I vow to God, the very idea turns my stomach! Tobias Smollett
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Some folks are wise and some are otherwise. Tobias Smollett