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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    fvvallowing a bafon of camomile tea; A fecond haunch of venifon, or a fe- cond dofe of turtle, would hardly allure a city glutton with its fmell. Even the celebrated jew himfelf, when well fill¬ ed with Calipafh and Calipee, goes con¬ tentedly home to tell his money, and expedts no more pleafure from his throat, during the next twenty-four hours. Hence I fuppofe Dr. Sooth took that elegant comparifon of the joys of a fpe- culative man to the folemn filence of an Archimedes over a problem, and thofe of a glutton to the ftillnefs of a fow at her wafh. A fimile, which, if it be¬ came the pulpit at all, could only be¬ come it in the afternoon. Whereas, in thofe potations which the mind feems to enjoy, rather than the bodily appetite, there is happily no fuch fatiety ; but the more a man drinks the more he defires; ' as if, like Mark Anthony in Dryden, his appetite in- creafed with feeding, and this to fuch an immoderate degree, ut nullas Jit de¬