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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    of harmony than Hogarth’s imaginati¬ on hath brought together in that print of his, which is enough to make a man deaf to look at ; I had a more ur¬ gent caufe to prefs our departure, which was, that the dropfy, for which I had undergone three tappings, feemed to threaten me with a fourth difcharge before I fhould reach Lifoon, and when I fhould have no body on board capable of performing the operation : but I was obliged to hearken to the voice of rea- C fon, if I may ufe the captain’s own words, and to reft myfelf contented * Indeed there was no alternative within my reach, but what would have coft w me much too dear. There are many evils in fociety, from which people of the higheft rank are fo entirely exempt, that they have not the leaft knowledge or idea of them ; nor indeed of the characters which are formed bv them. Such, for inftance, is the conveyance of goods and paffcagers from one place to ano¬ ther.