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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    1 think, derived from the reafons I have aiTigned for it. But I will dwell no longer on this fubjeft. If what I have here laid fhould feem of fufficient confequence to engage the attention of any man in power, and fhould thus be the means of applying any remedy, to the moft in¬ veterate evils at leaft, I have obtained my whole defire, and dial! have lain fo long wind-bound in the ports of this kingdom to fome purpofe. I would indeed have this work, which, if I fhould live to fin Kir it, (a matter of no great certainty, if indeed of any great hope to me,) will be probably the laft I fliall ever undertake, to produce fome better end than the mere diverfion of the reader, Monday. This day our captain went afhore, to dine with a gentleman who lives in thefe parts, and who fo exactly refembles the character given by Ho¬ mer of Axvlus, that the only difference K ' I