The Journal of a Voyage to LisbonPenguin Books, 1996 - 142 páginas When Fielding was winched aboard the Queen of Portugal bound for Lisbon in June 1754 he had small hope of surviving even the milder Portuguese winter. The author of Joseph Andrews and Tom Jones was 'dying from a complication of disorders' and the gravity of his illness sparks the unflinching humour and pathos of the Journal. In it Fielding scrutinizes his body's decay and the corruption of English society, undercutting with irony his own high claims for his former conduct as a London magistrate. In it, too, he makes merry with xenophobia and the rapturous excesses of contemporary travel writing, while casting himself in the role of a post-heroic Odysseus or Aeneas, a role tinged with farce as he charts the tortuous voyage of the Queen of Portugal. Tom Keymer provides an illuminating introduction to this volume, which at last makes popularly available a scholarly edition of the Journal. Completed some weeks before Fielding's death on 8 October 1754, the work is at once comic, valedictory and intensely poignant, and it is indeed 'his art's great sunset'. |
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... sail for Lisbon in three days.28 I eagerly embraced the offer , notwithstanding the shortness of the time ; and ... sailing , I at length invited him to dinner with me at Fordhook , a full week after the time on which he had declared ...
... sail for Lisbon in three days.28 I eagerly embraced the offer , notwithstanding the shortness of the time ; and ... sailing , I at length invited him to dinner with me at Fordhook , a full week after the time on which he had declared ...
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... sails expanded to the winds , bounding over the waves before us . And here I cannot pass by another observation on ... sailing ourselves in little vessels of our own , contrived only for our ease and accommodation , to which such ...
... sails expanded to the winds , bounding over the waves before us . And here I cannot pass by another observation on ... sailing ourselves in little vessels of our own , contrived only for our ease and accommodation , to which such ...
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... sail three miles against both wind and tide , I cannot conceive ; unless there was some supernatural interposition in the case : nay , could we admit that the wind stood neuter , the difficulty would still remain . So that we must of ...
... sail three miles against both wind and tide , I cannot conceive ; unless there was some supernatural interposition in the case : nay , could we admit that the wind stood neuter , the difficulty would still remain . So that we must of ...
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