Note 87 — BOOK IV.
T. (Tobias) Smollett translation
This is a diverting example of the Bathos, not unlike that anticlimax repeated in the art of sinking.
Nor Alps, nor Apennines could keep us out,
Nor fortified redoubt!
T. (Tobias) Smollett translation
This is a diverting example of the Bathos, not unlike that anticlimax repeated in the art of sinking.
Nor Alps, nor Apennines could keep us out,
Nor fortified redoubt!