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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    c plied to different purpofes of adion in * every feenev The feveral parts of the € material world, like the machines of a £ theatre, / were contrived not for the £ adors, but for the adion : and the c whole order and fyftem of the drama £ would be difordered and fpoiled, if s any alteration was made in either c The nature of every creature, his £ manner of being, is adapted to his s ftate here, to the place he is to inha- € bit, and, as we may fay, to the part £ he is to ad/ It hath been, I think, too common with poets to aggrandize their profeffion with fuch kind of fimi- les, and I have, ibmewhere in an Eng- lifh dramatic writer, met with one fo nearly refembling the above, that his lordfhip might be aim oft fufpeded to have read it likewife ; but fuch con¬ ceits are inconfiftent with any (even the leaft) pretence to philofophy. I recoiled, indeed, a ftngle inftance, in the writings of jordano Bruno, who was burnt at Rome for herefy, or, if we be¬ lieve Scioppius, for moft horrid blaf- piiemy.