The journal of a voyage to Lisbon / [Henry Fielding].

  • Henry Fielding
Date:
1755
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Credit: The journal of a voyage to Lisbon / [Henry Fielding]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    from others * fo, contempt of all things beft fecures us from them. And thus, while the dungcart and the floop are always meditating mifchief againft the coach and the fhip, and throwing them- felves defignediy in their way, the latter confider only their own fecurity, and are not afhamed to break the road, and let the other pafs.by them. Mojiday, July 8. Having pad: our Sunday without any thing remarkable, unlefs the catching a great number of whitings in the afternoon may be thought fo ; we now fet fail on Monday at fix o’clock, with a little variation of wind • but this was fo very little, and the breeze itfelf fo fmall, that the tide was our beft, and, indeed, almoft our only friend. This conducted us along the fhort remainder of theKentifh ftiore. Here we paft that cliff of Dover, which makes fo tremendous a figure in Shake- fpear, and which whoever reads with¬ out being giddy, muft, according to Mr. Addifon’s obfervation, have either F 2 a