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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    formed that Mr. Quin, whofe diilin- guifhing tooth hath been fo juftly cele¬ brated, had lately viiited Plymouth, and had done thofe honours to the doree, which are fo juftly due to it from that fedl of modern philofophers, who with Sir Epicure Mammon, or Sir Epi¬ cure Quin, their head, feem more to delight in a fhh-pond than in a garden, as the old Epicureans are faid to have done. Unfortunately for the f(hmon¬ gers of London, the doree re Tides only in thofe Teas; for could any of this company but convey one to the temple of luxury under the Piazza, where Macklin the high pried daily ferves up his rich offerings to that goddefs, great would be the reward of that fifhgan¬ ger in blcfhngs poured down upon him from the goddefs 5 as great would his merit be towards the high pried, who could never be thought to over-rate inch valuable incenfe* K3 And