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... Smollett ( 1721-71 ) . Lismahago , in Humphry Clinker , the most humane of his works , is described thus : He would have measured about six feet in height , had he stood upright ; but he stooped very much ; was very narrow in the ...
... Smollett ( 1721-71 ) . Lismahago , in Humphry Clinker , the most humane of his works , is described thus : He would have measured about six feet in height , had he stood upright ; but he stooped very much ; was very narrow in the ...
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... Smollett attacked his age precisely where it was most vulnerable , where it was dirty and diseased . If we today think of the eighteenth century in terms of its architecture , then Smollett shows us what lies beyond the sobriety and ...
... Smollett attacked his age precisely where it was most vulnerable , where it was dirty and diseased . If we today think of the eighteenth century in terms of its architecture , then Smollett shows us what lies beyond the sobriety and ...
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... Smollett prob- ably stumbled upon by accident or , since he was writing of Welsh characters , may have got from Shakespeare's Fluellen . Whether Smollett influenced Joyce or not , his influence on later novelists has been great . He was ...
... Smollett prob- ably stumbled upon by accident or , since he was writing of Welsh characters , may have got from Shakespeare's Fluellen . Whether Smollett influenced Joyce or not , his influence on later novelists has been great . He was ...
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