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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    love for his country, or can recognize any effed of the patriot in his confti- tution. Lastly, the Royal Hofpital of Greenwich, which p re fonts fo delight¬ ful a front to the water, and doth fuch honour at once to its builder and the nation, to the great fkill and ingenuity of the one,, and to the no lefs ienfible gratitude of the other, very properly ciofes the account of this fcene 3 which may well appear romantic to thofe who have not themfelves feen, that, in this one inftance, truth and reality are cap¬ able, perhaps, of exceeding the power of fid ion. When we had paft by Greenwich, we faw only two or three gentlemens houfes, all of very moderate account, till we reached Gravefend ; thefe are all on the Kentifh fhore, which affords a much drier, wholfomer and pleafan- ter duration, than doth that of its oppo- iite, Effex. This circumftance, 1 own, 2 is