...'Travels Through France and Italy', which occasioned Sterne to give him the nickname Smelfungus, "who set out with the spleen and jaundice, and every object he passed by was discoloured and distorted". 37 Christopher Smart (1722-1771) Smart was plagued throughout his life by problems of mental health...

...bienveillants. Au sujet de Smelfungus, c'est-adire de Smollett, il ecrit : "every object he pass'd by was discoloured and distorted - He wrote an account of them, but 'twas nothing but the account of his miserable feelings ... and a sad tale of sorrowful adventures"...

...Tour. Sterne elaborates on the same subject elsewhere in the Journey: The learned Smelfungus traveled 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...

...(Sterne, xiii). In any case, the name made a lasting impression on Carlyle. "The learned SMELFUNGUS travelled from Boulogne to Paris — from Paris to Rome — and so on," Sterne reports, "but he set out with the spleen and jaundice, and every object he pass'd by was discoloured...

...myself to mourn, and when they rejoiced, I would rejoice along with them.10 The learned SMELFUNGUS11 travelled from Boulogne to Paris — from Paris to...out with the spleen and jaundice, and every object 5 Sterne's italics suggest a typical bawdiness even in the midst of his scriptural references, one...

...travels; Sterne, on the other hand, immortalized this distinctly unsentimental traveler as Dr. Smelfungus: "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...