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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    hearing from me, that I found myfelf, iince my tapping, much lighter and better. In this, I believe, he was fin- cere 5 for he was, as we fhall have occafion to obferve more than once, a very good-natured man ; and as he was a very brave one too, I found that the heroic coofbncy, with which I had born an operation that is attended with fcarce any degree of pain, had not a lit¬ tle. railed me in his efieem. That he might adhere, therefore, in the moil; religious and rigorous manner to his word, he ordered his fhip to fall down to Gravefend on Sunday morning, and there to wait his arrival. • Sunday, Jme 30. Nothing worth notice pafs’d till that morning, when my poor wife, after pafling a night in the utmoft torments of the tooth-ach, refolved to have it drawn. I difpatch- ed, therefore, a fe'rvant into Wap.ping, to bring, in hade, the belt toot lid rawer he could find. He loon found out a female of great eminence in the art 3, but