* 1992 The Expedition of Humphry Clinker by Tobias Smollet, Classic Serial BBC radio 4, 4 episodes.

Other major 18th century English novelists are Samuel Richardson ( 1689-1761 ), author of the epistolary novels Pamela, or Virtue Rewarded ( 1740 ) and Clarissa ( 1747-8 ); Henry Fielding ( 1707 – 54 ), who wrote Joseph Andrews ( 1742 ) and The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling ( 1749 ); Laurence Sterne ( 1713 – 68 ) who published Tristram Shandy in parts between 1759 and 1767 ; Oliver Goldsmith (? 1730-74 ) author of The Vicar of Wakefield ( 1766 ); Tobias Smollett ( 1721 – 71 ) a Scottish novelist best known for his comic picaresque novels, such as The Adventures of Peregrine Pickle ( 1751 ) and The Expedition of Humphry Clinker ( 1771 ), who influenced Charles Dickens ; and Fanny Burney ( 1752-1840 ), whose novels " were enjoyed and admired by Jane Austen ," wrote Evelina ( 1778 ), Cecilia ( 1782 ) and Camilla ( 1796 ).

* Tobias Smollett-The Expedition of Humphry Clinker

The Expedition of Humphry Clinker was the last of the picaresque novels of Tobias Smollett, and is considered by many to be his best and funniest work.

The titular character, Humphry Clinker, is an ostler, a stableman at an inn, who does not make his first appearance until about a quarter of the way through the story.

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Some visits to Bath, however, where from 1770 until his death in 1805, he made No. 4 Royal Crescent his permanent home, ( albeit the plaque recording this is actually displayed outside No. 5 ) where in 1766 he penned his famous rhymed letters, The New Bath Guide or Memoirs of the Blunderhead Family ..., a satirical poem of considerable sparkle, about the adventures of the " Blunderhead " family in Bath, from which Tobias Smollett is said to have drawn largely in his The Expedition of Humphry Clinker.

* The Expedition of Humphry Clinker, the last of the picaresque novels of Scottish author Tobias Smollett

* L ' expédition d ' Humphry Clinker ( translation of the Tobias G. Smollet novel ; with Catherine d ' Ivernois ) – Gallimard-1955

He wrote the following and more: The Adventures of Roderick Random ( 1748 ), The Adventures of Peregrine Pickle ( 1751 ), The Adventures of Ferdinand Count Fathom ( 1753 ), The Life and Adventures of Sir Launcelot Greaves ( 1762 ), The History and Adventures of an Atom ( 1769 ), and The Expedition of Humphry Clinker ( 1771 ).

The exception to this is Smollett's last novel, Humphry Clinker, written during Smollett's final illness.

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The show would begin with a title sequence of the Playbus driving along to the theme tune until it reached the bus stop, where characters on the bus were Why, Peggy, Dot, Poppy, Humphry, Lizzie and Mr. Jolly.

Humphry Davy said of him that " Those who consider James Watt only as a great practical mechanic form a very erroneous idea of his character ; he was equally distinguished as a natural philosopher and a chemist, and his inventions demonstrate his profound knowledge of those sciences, and that peculiar characteristic of genius, the union of them for practical application ".

His character is summarised by Smollett in Humphrey Clinker.

* Tabitha Bramble and Winifred Jenkins, two characters in Tobias Smollett's 1771 novel Humphrey Clinker, are founts of malapropisms:

He was portrayed in the novel Humphrey Clinker by Tobias Smollett as a bungling fool, ignorant of all geography, who is convinced that Cape Breton is not an island.

In 1771, Tobias Smollett recorded the use of bathing machines in The Expedition of Humphrey Clinker.

"-Tobias Smollet, The Expedition of Humphrey Clinker ( 1771 )

The Expedition of Humphrey Clinker was published in 1771 and its description of ladies ’ bathing costume is different to that of Celia Fiennes a hundred years earlier:

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The above cartoon is a depiction of the nursery rhyme " Little Miss Muffet ", in which the title character is " frightened away " by a spider.