“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.”

— Tobias Smollett

Act II, scene vii.
The Regicide (1749)

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18th-century poet and author from Scotland 1721–1771

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