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Tobias Smollett: Citations en anglais

“True courage scorns
To vent her prowess in a storm of words;
And, to the valiant, actions speak alone.”

Act II, scene vii.
The Regicide (1749)

“As Love can exquisitely bless,
Love only feels the marvellous of pain;
Opens new veins of torture in the soul,
And wakes the nerve where agonies are born.”

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Edward Young, The Brothers (1753), Act V, scene i.
Misattributed

“Thy spirit, Independence, let me share,
Lord of the lion-heart and eagle-eye.
Thy steps I follow with my bosom bare,
Nor heed the storm that howls along the sky.”

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Ode to Independence, strophe 1.

“Those sculptur'd halls my feet shall never tread,
Where varnish'd vice and vanity combin'd,
To dazzle and seduce, their banners spread,
And forge vile shackles for the free-born mind.”

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Ode to Independence, antistrophe 3.

“To-day, in snow array'd, stern winter rules
The ravag'd plain—Anon the teeming earth
Unlocks her stores, and spring adorns the year:
And shall not we—while fate, like winter, frowns,
Expect revolving bliss?”

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Act I, scene vi.
The Regicide (1749)

“Facts are stubborn things.”

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Translation of Gil Blas (1749), Book X, Chap. 1.
Also used by Bernard Mandeville in An Enquiry Into the Origin of Honour (1732), p. 162, and by Jared Elliot in Essay on Field Husbandry (1747), p. 35.

“To send the injur'd unredress'd away,
How great soe'er th' offender, or the wrong'd
Howe'er obscure, is wicked—weak and vile:
Degrades, denies, and should dethrone a king!”

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Act IV, scene ix.
The Regicide (1749)

“To exult
Ev'n o'er an enemy oppress'd, and heap
Affliction on the afflicted, is the mark
And the mean triumph of a dastard soul.”

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Act II, scene vii.
The Regicide (1749)

“Keen are the pangs
Of hapless love, and passion unapprov'd:
But where consenting wishes meet, and vows
Reciprocally breath'd, confirm the tie,
Joy rolls on joy, an inexhausted stream!
And virtue crowns the sacred scene.”

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Act I, scene iii.
The Regicide (1749)

“Writing is all a lottery -- I have been a loser by the works of the greatest men of the age.”

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Tobias Smollett livre The Expedition of Humphry Clinker

The Expedition of Humphry Clinker (1771).

“Thy fatal shafts unerring move,
I bow before thine altar, Love!”

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Tobias Smollett livre The Adventures of Roderick Random

The Adventures of Roderick Random (1848), Chapter xl, reported in Bartlett's Quotations, 10th ed. (1919).

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