The journal of a voyage to Lisbon / [Henry Fielding].

  • Fielding, Henry, 1707-1754
Date:
1755
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Credit: The journal of a voyage to Lisbon / [Henry Fielding]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    fchool where I had learnt to bear pains and to defpife death. In this foliation, as I could not con¬ quer nature, I fiibmitted entirely to her, and (he made as great fool of me as fixe had ever done of any woman whatfo- ever: under pr etence of giving me leave to enjoy, fixe drew me in to fuffer the company of my little ones, during eight hours; and I doubt not whether, in that time, I did not undergo more than in all my di(temper. f - At twelve precisely my coach wal at the door, which was no foorier told me than I kifs’d my children round, and went in o it with fome little refla¬ tion, My wife, who bhaved more like a heroine and philofopher, tho’ at the fame time the tendered mother in the world, and my elded daughter, followed me ; fome friends went with us, and others here took their leave; and 1 heard my behaviour applauded, with many murmurs and praifes to, which