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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    difhabille, and wifhed themfelves dreft, for the fake of the curate, who was the greateft of their beholders* While I was left alone, I received a vifit from Mr. Humphrys himfelf, who was much more confiderable as a farmer, than as an innholder. Indeed he left the latter entirely to the care of his wife, and he adted wifely, I believe, in fo doing. As nothing more remarkable part on this day, I will clofe it with the account of thefe two characters, as far as a few days refidence could inform me of them. If they fhould appear as new to the reader as they did to me, he will not be difpleafed at finding them here. This amiable couple feemed to bor¬ der hard on their grand climadteric 5 nor indeed were they fhy of owning enough to fix their ages within a year or two of that time. They appeared to be rather proud of having employed their time