| Tobias Smollett - France - 1899 - 596 pages
...apparently, that there was but one just man alive, and his name — it * • ' The learned Smelfungus travelled from Boulogne to Paris, from Paris to Rome — and so on ; — but he set out with spleen and jaundice, and every object he passed by was discoloured or distorted. — He wrote an account... | |
| Laurence Sterne - 1900 - 174 pages
...them. The learned SMELFUNGUS travelled from Boulogne to Paris—from Paris to Rome—and so on—but he set out with the spleen and jaundice, and every object he pass'd by was discoloured or distorted—He wrote an account of them, but 'twas nothing but the account... | |
| Laurence Sterne - 1904 - 762 pages
...seduce him out of his road." Finally there is the Splenetic Traveller, "the learned Smelfungus," who "travelled from Boulogne to Paris, — from Paris...with the spleen and jaundice ; and every object he pass'd by was discoloured or distorted. He wrote an account of them ; but 't was nothing but the account... | |
| Laurence Sterne - 1904 - 466 pages
...seduce him out of his road." Finally there is the Splenetic Traveller, "the learned Smelfungus," who "travelled from Boulogne to Paris, — from Paris...out with the spleen and jaundice ; and every object. lie pass'd by was discoloured or distorted. — He wrote an account of them ; but 'twas nothing but... | |
| Laurence Sterne - Clergy - 1905 - 162 pages
...myself to mourn ; — and when they rejoiced, I would rejoice along with them. jrheJearned_Smelfungus travelled from Boulogne to Paris, — from Paris to...jaundice ; and every object he passed by was discoloured or distorted. — He wrote an account of them ; but 'twas nothing but the account of his miserable... | |
| Charles Lamb, Mary Lamb - 1905 - 596 pages
...an allusion to Sterne's attack on Smollett, in The Sentimental Journey : " The lamented Smelfungus travelled from Boulogne to Paris, from Paris to Rome,...jaundice, and every object he passed by was discoloured or distorted." " Bullen "—Boulogne. " Stronger man." See Luke xi. 21, 22. " The Post." Lamb had been... | |
| Charles Lamb, Mary Lamb - 1905 - 588 pages
...Evidently an allusion to Sterne's attack on Smollett, in The Sentimental Journey: "The lamented Smelfungus travelled from Boulogne to Paris, from Paris to Rome,...jaundice, and every object he passed by was discoloured or distorted." "Bullen"— Boulogne. " Stronger man." See Luke xi. 21, 22. " The Post" Lamb had been... | |
| Lionel Strachey - Wit and humor - 1905 - 316 pages
...the epocha of deism for two years. — " A Sentimental Journey." Smelfungus THE learned Smelfungus travelled from Boulogne to Paris, from Paris to Rome,...with the spleen and jaundice, and every object he pass'd by was discoloured or distorted. He wrote an account of them, but 'twas nothing but the account... | |
| Douglas Ford - Great Britain - 1907 - 386 pages
...of " Smelfungus," alluding in caustic terms to his snarling propensities : " The lamented Smelfungus travelled from Boulogne to Paris, from Paris to Rome,...the spleen and jaundice, and every object he passed was discoloured or distorted. He wrote- an account of them, but 'twas nothing but the account of his... | |
| William Ernest Henley, Robert Louis Stevenson - Artists - 1908 - 342 pages
...called tubercle. ' Whom the gods love die young.' Whom the gods love not ! 3 ' The learned Smelfungus travelled from Boulogne to Paris, from Paris to Rome — and so on ; — but he set out with spleen and jaundice, and every object he passed by was discoloured or distorted. — He wrote an account... | |
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