Reading Experience Database
1450-1945

Listing for Author: Tobias Smollet

 

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1700-1799'Dr Delany read his wife an eclectic range of books from Eusebius' "Life of Constantine the Great" to "Peregrine Pickl...Patrick Delany Tobias SmollettPeregrine PicklePrint: Book
1700-1799I Read the travels of Roderick Random, who had been into different Quarters and he Exposed the severaty of the Captain...John Yeoman Tobias SmollettRoderick RandomUnknown
1700-1799Read the Second Part of Mr. Roderick RandomJohn Yeoman Tobias SmollettRoderick RandomUnknown
1800-1849'As a child, William Heaton the Yorkshire weaver-poet, "rambled with Christian from his home in the wilderness to the ...William Heaton Tobias SmollettRoderick RandomPrint: Book
1700-1799...a desire for information which was by no means whollly neglected even whilst I was an apprentice, I always found so...Francis Place Tobias George SmollettPrint: Book
1850-1899'Robert White... had somewhat more progressive tastes [than Robert Story], which extended to Shelley, Keats, Childe Ha...Robert White Tobias SmollettPrint: Book
1850-1899[due to the fact that books in working class communities were generally cheap out of copyright reprints, not new works...Joseph Keating Tobias SmollettPrint: Book
1850-1899'On learning that [Hall] Caine was to present twenty-four lectures in Liverpool on "Prose Fiction" ... [D. G. Rossetti...Hall Caine Tobias Smollett[unknown]Print: Book
1900-1945'Britain was a mainly urban society...and soon an expanding range of sexual literature became available in the cities....Mark Grossek Tobias Smollett[unknown]Print: Book
1850-1899'As a collier [Joseph Keating]... heard a co-worker sigh, "Heaven from all creatures hides the book of fate". Keating ...Joseph Keating Tobias SmollettPrint: Book
1800-1849I suppose I had read Hume's England when I wrote last; and I need not repeat my opinion of it. My perusal of the cont...Thomas Carlyle Tobias SmollettHistory of EnglandPrint: Book
1800-1849'I got thro 6 chapters of Count Fathom- about an hours undertaking- and this has been the way thro my whole readings- ...William Upcott Tobias George SmollettThe Adventures of Ferdinand Count FathomPrint: Book
1700-1799'Carter and Talbot read fiction and corresponded about it, including "Roderick Random", the novels of Eliza Haywood, F...Catherine Talbot Tobias SmollettRoderick RandomPrint: Book
1700-1799'Carter and Talbot read fiction and corresponded about it, including "Roderick Random", the novels of Eliza Haywood, F...Elizabeth Carter Tobias SmolletRoderick RandomPrint: Book
1850-1899November 19, 1880 [Paris] 'I have been reading with great interest Humphrey Clinker [sic], which I like much the best ...Lady Charlotte Schreiber Tobias SmollettHumphry ClinkerPrint: Book
1850-1899November 19, 1880 [Paris] 'I have been reading with great interest Humphrey Clinker [sic], which I like much the best ...Lady Charlotte Schreiber Tobias SmollettRoderick RandomPrint: Book
1700-1799'Tuesday the 4th being a very wet day we were obliged to keep pretty close to our miserably dull apartments the walls ...John Marsh, Elizabeth Marsh and Miss WhiteTobias SmollettThe expedition of Humphrey ClinkerPrint: Book
1800-1849'Finished reading Fathom [underlined].'Alfred Tennyson Tobias SmollettFerdinand Count FathomPrint: Book
1700-1799Another great source of amusement as well as knowledge, I have met with in reading almost all the best novels (Cervant...James Lackington Tobias SmolletunknownPrint: Book
1800-1849'At ten the poor infant was reading Smollett's History... She summed up her impression with scornful lucidity: "There ...Anne Isabella (Annabella) Milbanke Tobias SmollettComplete History of EnglandPrint: Book
1850-1899'It [central London] was truly a wonder world, for I seeing it not merely with my eyes of flesh but with the eyes of h...Thomas A. Jackson Tobias Smollett[unknown]Print: Book
1850-1899'Later on I found at the bottom of a cupboard some of volumes -Addison's "Spectator", Pope's "Homer", and a few other ...Thomas A. Jackson Tobias Smollett[unknown]Print: Book
1900-1945'Thursday 14th October ?Roderick Random? (T. Smolett)'. Gerald Moore Tobias SmollettRoderick RandomPrint: Book
1800-1849'Have you seen the last Edinr review? There are several promising articles in it - Scotts "Lord of the Isles," Standar...Thomas Carlyle Tobias SmollettPeregrine PicklePrint: Book
1800-1849'I have read thro' that clear & candid but cold hearted narration of David Hume - and now seven of Toby Smollet[t]'s e...Thomas Carlyle Tobias SmollettHistory of EnglandPrint: Book
1800-1849'I have been reading little [since I last wrote to you] except Coxe's travels in Switzerland, Poland, Russia &c, Humes...Thomas Carlyle Tobias SmollettHistory of England [probably]Print: Book
1700-1799Letter to Miss Ewing, November 14, 1778 '? the former [ie Highlanders] indeed are a people never to be known unless yo...Anne Grant [nee MacVicar] Tobias SmollettThe expedition of Humphrey ClinkerPrint: Book
1700-1799Letter to Miss Reid May 17,1773 'As far as a mountain can resemble a man, it resembles the person Smollet has marked o...Anne Grant [nee MacVicar] Tobias SmollettRoderick RandomPrint: Book
1700-1799Letter to Miss Ourry March 27 1791 'I am very fond of the lower class of people; they have sentiment, serious habits, ...Anne Grant [nee MacVicar] Tobias SmollettunknownPrint: Book
1800-1849'read Somnium Scipionis & Roderick Random'Mary Shelley Tobias SmollettAdventures of Roderick RandomPrint: Book
1800-1849'finish Roderick Random'Mary Shelley Tobias SmollettAdventures of Roderick RandomPrint: Book
1800-1849'Read Fielding's Amelia - Sir Launcelot Greaves. a little of Tacitus - Twopenny post bag.'Mary Shelley Tobias SmollettAdventures of Sir Launcelot Greaves, ThePrint: Book
1900-1945'More I reflect on the novel the higher I place it: attempts to read Swift, Miss Burney, Smollett, place it on a pinna...Edward Morgan Forster Tobias SmollettPrint: Book
1800-1849From Alfred Tennyson's journal of his tour in Cornwall, 1848: '19th [June]. Finished reading Fathom.'Alfred Tennyson Tobias SmollettThe Adventures of Ferdinand, Count FathomPrint: Book
1700-1799'I myself like Smollet's Novels better than Fielding's; the perpetual Parody teizes one; - there is more Rapidity and ...Hester Lynch Thrale Tobias SmollettPrint: Book
1700-1799'Was I to make a Scale of Novel Writers I should put Richardson first, then Rousseau; after them, but at an immeasurab...Hester Lynch Thrale Tobias SmollettFerdinand Count FathomPrint: Book
1700-1799Robert Southey to Grosvenor Charles Bedford, 14-18 October 1793: 'I proceeded on sad & solitary to Hounslow & there ga...Robert Southey Tobias SmollettThe Adventures of Sir Lancelot Greaves Print: Book
1700-1799Robert Southey to Grosvenor Charles Bedford, 14-18 October 1793: 'In the interim you shall have the remarks that occur...Robert Southey Tobias SmollettThe Adventures of Sir Lancelot Greaves Print: Book
1700-1799Robert Southey to Grosvenor Charles Bedford, 14-18 October 1793: 'In the interim you shall have the remarks that occur...Robert Southey Tobias SmollettThe Adventures of Humphry ClinkerPrint: Book
1800-1849'Everything seems to have been designed to develop the serious fold in her nature. At ten, the poor infant was reading...Anne Isabella Milbanke Tobias SmollettHistoryPrint: Book
1850-189918 July 1876: 'Left Paris by tidal service at half-past nine, reaching London before seven... I am reading again, w...Lady Charlotte Schreiber Tobias SmollettPeregrine PicklePrint: Book
1850-189919 November 1880, from Paris: 'I have been reading with great interest Humphrey Clinker, which I like much the best...Lady Charlotte Schreiber Tobias SmollettHumphrey ClinkerPrint: Book
1850-189919 November 1880, from Paris: 'I have been reading with great interest Humphrey Clinker, which I like much the best...Lady Charlotte Schreiber Tobias SmollettRoderick RandomPrint: Book
1850-189919 November 1880, from Paris: 'I have been reading with great interest Humphrey Clinker, which I like much the best...Lady Charlotte Schreiber Tobias SmollettPeregrine PicklePrint: Book

 

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