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His three best known works are Roderick Random , a series of adventures related by the hero; Peregrine Pickle in which he reflects with brutal directness the worst of his experiences at sea; and Humphrey Clinker , his last work, recounting the mild adventures of a Welsh family in a journey through England and Scotland.
If Smollett had served the cause in no other way than in his strong effect upon the author of "The Pickwick Papers," he would deserve well of all critics: how the little Copperfield delighted in that scant collection of books on his father's bookshelf, where were "Roderick Random," "Peregrine Pickle" and "Humphrey Clinker," along with "Tom Jones," "The Vicar of Wakefield," "Gil Blas" and "Robinson Crusoe" "a glorious host," says he, "to keep me company.
Clinker, an Irishwoman and the widow of a learned Dean, understood a number of things, and was clear-headed and humorous, for all her seventy years, and these passages in her daughter's letter amused her. We are entertaining a number of distinguished visitors, and among them Mr. John Derringham, the Under Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs.
David was particularly small, as we are told, when he first saw Canterbury, but he was already familiar with Roderick Random, Peregrine Pickle, Humphrey Clinker, Tom Jones, The Vicar of Wakefield, Don Quixote, Gil Blas, and Robinson Crusoe, who came out, as he says, a glorious host, to keep him company.
To us these heroes often appear no better than ruffians; Peregrine Pickle, for example, rather excels the infamy of Ferdinand, Count Fathom, in certain respects; though Ferdinand is professedly "often the object of our detestation and abhorrence," and is left in a very bad, but, as "Humphrey Clinker" shows, in by no means a hopeless way.
May I ask where you have been?" "Oh, just for a ride; been trying the new horse: he's a clinker! The governor couldn't have got hold of a better if he'd searched all Arabia, and Hungary to boot. I'll just change and get some lunch. I hope you haven't waited?" "Your hope is not in vain, young man," replied Howard, suavely; "but I will come and sit beside you while you stoke."
People laugh over his fun in the "Memoirs of Scriblerus," and are commonly satisfied to think it Pope's. Smollett insured his literary life in "Humphrey Clinker"; and we suppose his Continuation of Hume is still one of the pills which ingenuous youth is expected to gulp before it is strong enough to resist.
And here they arrived at the boarded-up gate, where further view was impossible, and from which onwards the lands ceased to join. "Good-by!" they called to one another, even Arabella Clinker joining in the chorus, while Cora Lutworth ran back to say: "Some day we'll meet outside the Styx. Let us get Mr. Derringham to manage it!" And Halcyone cried a glad "Oh, yes!" "What a darling!
The labor connected with the feeding of furnaces with coke and cleaning fires from clinker is of a very arduous and heavy nature. Eight coke fires are normally considered to be work for one man. A lad could work sixteen of these tar fires. Considerable attention has been paid to the composition of the furnace gases from the tar fires.
He could not condemn her to wretched poverty and tie a millstone round both their necks. The doctors had absolutely forbidden him to read or even know of any more letters the official ones the secretary could deal with but he became so restless with anxiety that Arabella Clinker was persuaded to bring them up and at least let him glance at the addresses.
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