EDITED BY

PROFESSOR ERIC S. ROBERTSON, M.A.

LIFE OF SMOLLETT.

LIFE

OF

TOBIAS GEORGE SMOLLETT

BY

DAVID HANNAY

LONDON

WALTER SCOTT

24 WARWICK LANE, PATERNOSTER ROW

1887

(All rights reserved.)

OIMIAERRILA

CONTENTS.

CHAPTER I.

The family of Bonhill; Smollett's parentage; his schooling at

Dumbarton; with Dr. Gordon at Glasgow; writes a

tragedy; starts for London; how far was Roderick Ran-

dom, Smollett ?; anecdotes; his early fondness for

sarcasm

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CHAPTER II.

First year in London; the fortunes of his tragedy; patronage

of Lyttelton; grievances against the managers; the merits

of the "Regicide"; surgeon's mate in Sir Chaloner Ogle's

squadron; how put into the navy; character of the sea-

life of the time; expedition to Carthagena, 1741; its

failure; Smollett's account of the expedition in the "Com-

pendium of Voyages," quoted

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CHAPTER III.

Smollett in Jamaica; Miss Anne Lascelles; Smollett's mar-
riage; in London again 1744; in Downing Street; attempts
to obtain practice; in the '45 year; Dr. Carlyle of
Inveresk quoted; the news of Culloden; Smollett's
opinions on the suppression of the Jacobite rising; the

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