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THE
NOVELS
OF
د
TOBIAS SMOLLETT, M. D.
VIZ.
COUNT FATHOM,
SIR LAUNCELOT GREAVES,
AND
THE TRANSLATION OF
CERVANTES'S DON QUIXOTE.
LONDON:
PUBLISHED BY HURST, ROBINSON, AND CO. 90, CHEAPSide.
PRINTED BY JAMES BALLANTYNE AND COMPANY, At the Border Press :
FOR JOHN BALLANTYNE, EDINBURGH.
1821.
250. d. 69.
TO DOCTOR *****
CONTENTS.
FERDINAND COUNT FATHOM.
PAGE.
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CRAP. I. Some sage observations that naturally in-
troduce our important history,
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II. A superficial view of our Hero's infancy,
III. He is initiated in a military life, and has the
good fortune to acquire a generous Patron,
IV. His Mother's prowess and death; together
with some instances of his own sagacity,
V. A brief detail of his Education,
VI. He meditates Schemes of Importance,
VII. Engages in partnership with a Female Asso-
ciate, in order to put his talents in action,
VIII. Their first attempt; with a digression which
some readers may think impertinent,
IX. The confederates change their battery, and
achieve a remarkable Adventure,
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X. They proceed to levy contributions with great
success, until our Hero sets out with the young
Count for Vienna, where he enters into league
with another Adventurer,
XI. Fathom makes various efforts in the world of
gallantry,
XII. He effects a lodgement in the house of a rich
Jeweller,
XIII. He is exposed to a most perilous incident in
the course of his intrigue with the Daughter,
XIV. He is reduced to a dreadful dilemma, in con-
sequence of an assignation with the Wife,
XV. But at length succeeds in his attempts upon
both,
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XVI. His success begets a blind security, by which
he is once again well nigh entrapped in his Dul-
cinea's apartment,
XVII. The Step-dame's suspicions being awaken-
ed, she lays a snare for our Adventurer, from which
he is delivered by the interposition of his good
genius,
XVIII. Our Hero departs from Vienna, and quits
the domain of Venus for the rough field of Mars,
XIX. He puts himself under the guidance of his
associate, and stumbles upon the French camp,
where he finishes his military career,
XX. He prepares a Stratagem, but finds himself
countermined; proceeds on his journey, and is
overtaken by a terrible tempest,
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XXVI. The history of the noble Castilian,
XXVII. A flagrant instance of Fathom's virtue, in
the manner of his retreat to England,
XXVIII. Some account of his fellow-travellers,
XXIX. Another providential deliverance from the
effects of the smuggler's ingenious conjecture,
XXX. The singular manner of Fathom's attack
and triumph over the virtue of the fair Elenor,
XXXI. He by accident encounters his old friend,
with whom he holds a conference, and renews a
treaty,
XXXII. He appears in the great world with uni-
versal applause and admiration,
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XXIII. Acquits himself with address in a noctur- nal riot,
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XLVII. The art of borrowing further explained,
and an account of a strange phenomenon,
XLVIII. Count Fathom unmasks his battery; is
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V. An account of the sage discourse that passed
between Sancho and his master: the succeeding
adventure of the corpse, with other remarkable
events,
VI. Of the unseen and unheard-of adventure achiev-
ed by the valiant Don Quixote de la Mancha,
with less hazard than ever attended any exploit
performed by the most renowned knight on
earth,
VII. Of the sublime adventure and shining acqui-
sition of Mambrino's helmet; with other acci-
dents that happened to our invincible Knight,
VIII. Don Quixote sets at liberty a number of un-
fortunate people, who, much against their wills,
were going a journey that was not at all to their
liking,
IX. Of what befell the renowned Don Quixote in
the Brown Mountain; being one of the most
surprising adventures which is recounted in this
true history,
X. The continuation of the adventure in the Sierra
Morena,..
XI. Of the strange adventures that happened to
the valiant Knight of la Mancha, in the Sierra
Morena, where he did penance, in imitation of
Beltenebros,
XII. A continuation of the refinements in love
practised by Don Quixote in the Brown Moun-
tain,
CHAP. I. Wherein is recounted the unlucky adven-
tare which happened to Don Quixote, in meeting
with certain unmerciful Yanguesians,
II. The adventure that happened to this sagacious
Knight at the inn, which he mistook for a castle, 334
III. Containing the sequel of those incredible griev-
ances which the valiant Don Quixote, and his
trusty 'squire Sancho Panza, underwent at the
inn, which, for their misfortune, the Knight mis-
took for a castle,
IV. In which is recounted the discourse that pass-
ed between Sancho Panza and his master Don
Quixote; with other adventures worthy of re-
cord,
CHAP. I. Of the new and agreeable adventure that
happened to the curate and barber in the Brown
Mountain,
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II. Of the beautiful Dorothea's discretion; with
other pleasant and entertaining particulars, 395
III. The pleasant artifice practised to extricate our
enamoured Knight from the most rigorous penance
he had imposed upon himself,
IV. The savoury conversation that passed between
Don Quixote and his 'squire Sancho Panza; with
many other incidents,
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V. Which treats of what happened to Don Quix-
ote and his company at the inn,
VI. The novel of the Impertinent Curiosity, 412
VII. The continuation of the novel called Imperti-
nent Curiosity,
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VIII. The conclusion of the Impertinent Curio-
sity,.