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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    ^35 On the fummit of the rock ftands a hermitage, which is now in the pof- feffion of an Englifhman, who was formerly in after of a vefiel trading to Lifbon 3 and, having changed his re¬ ligion and his manners, tne latter of which, at leaft, were none of the beft, betook himfelf to this place, in order to do penance for his fins. He is now very old, and hath inhabited this her¬ mitage for a great number of years, during which he hath received force countenance from the royal family j and particularly from the late queen dow¬ ager, whofe piety refufes no trouble or expence by which fhe may make a profelyte ; being ufed to fay, that the laving one foul would repay all the en¬ deavours of her life. H ere we waited for the tide, and had the pleafure of furveying the face of the country, the foil of which, at this feafon, exactly refembles an old brick kill, or a field where the green- iward