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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    ter one another, in competition with what we enjoy, in viewing a fucceffion of (hips, with all their fails expanded to the winds, bounding over the waves before us. And here I cannot pafs by another obfervation on the deplorable want of tafte in our enjoyments, which we jfhew by a!moil; totally neglecting the purfuit of what feems to me the higheft degree of amufement: this is, the fail¬ ing ourfelves in little veffels of our own, contrived only for our eafe and accom¬ modation, to which fuch iituations of our villas, as I have recommended, would be fo convenient and even ne- cefTary. This amufement, I confefs, if en¬ joyed in any perfection, would be of the expeniive kind; but fuch expence would not exceed the reach of a mo¬ derate fortune, and would fall very fhort of the prices which are daily paid for pleafures of a far inferior rate. The £ trails