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

  • Fielding, Henry, 1707-1754
Date:
1755
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Credit: The journal of a voyage to Lisbon / [Henry Fielding]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    and preferved all from flagnation and corruption. Quin the player, on taking a nice and fevere furvey of a fellow-comedian, burft forth into this exclamation, 44 If <£ if that fellow be not a rogue, the €< Creator doth not write a legible “ hand/' Whether he guefled right or no, is not worth my while to ex¬ amine. Certain it is, that the latter, having wrought his features into a pro¬ per harmony to become the charadlers of Iago, Shylock, and others of the fame cart, gave a femblance of truth to the obfervation, that was fufficient to confirm the wit of it. Indeed, we may remark, in favour of the phyfiognomift, though the law hath made him a rogue and vagabond, that nature is ftldom cu¬ rious in her workswithin, without em¬ ploying fome little pains on the outfi.de ; and this more particularly in mifchiev- ous charadters, in forming which, as Mr. Derham obferves, in venomous infedts, as the fling or faw of a wafp, G 6 fhe