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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    T O LI SBO N. pqffibilify the Trojan horfe will remain for ever on record, as a great and me- J C- morable example. Now the Portuguefe have no walls to fecure them, and a veffel of two or three hundred tuns will contain a much larger body of troops, than could be concealed in that famous machine, tho’ Virgil tells us (10 me what hyperbolically, I believe) that it was as big as a mountain. About (even in the evening I got into a chaife on fhore, and was driven through the naftieit city in the world, tho’ at the fame time one of the mold populous, to a kind of coffee-houfe, which is very pleafantly fituated on the brow of a hill, about a mile from the city, and hath a very fine profpedt of the river Tajo from Lisbon to the fea. Here we regaled ourfeIves with a good fupper, for which we were as well charged, as if the bill had been made