The few who made it, like Goldsmith or that industrious novelist, anthologist, editor and translator, Tobias Smollett, might naturally feel ashamed of their sordid pasts.

Humphry Clinker by Tobias Smollett Mr Martin is as smooth as any gentleman of the road.

Miscellaneous Works of Tobias Smollett; to which is prefixed, memoirs of his life and writings. . . .