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The Adventures of Roderick Random - Smollett, T. (Tobias) ยท 77 words
About the age of eighteen, I grew ambitious of undertaking a work of some consequence; and, with my fathers approbation, actually planned the tragedy you have read; but, before I had finished four acts, that indulgent parent died, and left my mother and me in very indigent circumstances. A near relation, compassionating our distress, took us into his family, where I brought my fable to a conclusion; and, soon after that period my mother quitted this life.
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