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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    man will, I believe, fcruple to acknow¬ ledge, that the winter of 1753 ftands unrivaTd, during a courfe of many years, and this may poffibly appear the more extraordinary to thofe who recoiled: the outrages with which it began* Having thus fully accomplished my undertaking, I went into the country in a very weak and deplorable condition, with no fewer or lefs difeafes than a jaundice, a dropfy, and an afthma, al¬ together uniting their forces in the de¬ ft rud ion of a body lb entirely ema¬ ciated, that it had loft all its mufcular fiefh. Mine was now no longer what is called a Bath cafe; nor, if it had been fo, had I ftrength remaining fufficient to go thither, a ride of fix miles only being attended with an intolerable fa¬ tigue. I now difcharged my lodgings at Bath, which I had hitherto kept. I began, in earneft, to look on my cafe as defperate, and I had vanity enough to rank myfelf with thofe heroes who, of