Category: Novels
Smollett bears witness to the popularity of Defoe’s _Colonel Jacque_. In the sixty-second chapter of _Roderick Random_, the hero of that novel is profoundly impressed by the genius of the disappointed poet, Melopoyn, the story of whose tragedy is Smollett’s acrimonious version...
Smollett bears witness to the popularity of Defoe’s _Colonel Jacque_. In the sixty-second chapter of _Roderick Random_, the hero of that novel is profoundly impressed by the gen...
4. PART IIThe breed’s described: Now, Satire, if you can, Their temper show, for manners make the man. Fierce, as the Briton; as the Roman, brave; And less inclined to conquer than to sav...
3. PART IWherever God erects a house of prayer, The Devil always builds a chapel there:[11] And ’twill be found upon examination, The latter has the largest congregation: For ever since...
1. PART I