Wednesday, December 19, 2012

 

Life

Tobias Smollett (1721-1771), The Expedition of Humphry Clinker (Jery Melford to Sir Watkins Phillips, Bath, April 30):
My uncle and he are perfectly agreed in their estimate of life; which Quin says, would stink in his nostrils, if he did not steep it in claret.



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