The journal of a voyage to Lisbon / [Henry Fielding].

  • Fielding, Henry, 1707-1754
Date:
1755
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Credit: The journal of a voyage to Lisbon / [Henry Fielding]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    [ ZU) ] queftion. To this, indeed, I could fay, and it is all that I could fay, that my lord Bolingbroke was a great ge¬ nius, fent into the world for great and aftonifliing purpofes. That the ends, as well as means of a&ion in fuch per- fonages, are above the coni prehen fion of the vulgar. That his life was one fcene of the Wonderful throughout. That, as the temporal happinefs, the civil liberties and properties of Europe, were the game of his earlieft youth, there could be no fport fo adequate to the entertainment of his advanced age, as the eternal and final happinefs of all mankind. That this is the nobleft confervation of character, and mighty if perceived in himfelf, poffibly lead our great genius to fee the fupreme Being in the light of a dramatic poet, and that part of his works which we inhabit as a drama. c Thefenfitive in- 4 habitants of our globe/ fays lord Bo¬ lingbroke % £ like the dramatisperforate, £ have different characters, and are ap- a Vol. V. p. 377, £ plied