Journal of a Voyage to Lisbon, Volume 1The Floating Press, 01/09/2010 - 167 páginas Best known for his novels Tom Jones and Amelia, Henry Fielding was also an intrepid traveler and explorer who used his journeys around the world as fodder for his sprawling, picaresque works of fiction. Journal of a Voyage to Lisbon, Volume I collects Fielding's impressions of his trip to Portugal's capital. A must-read for fans of lively travel writing. |
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Henry Fielding. Introduction. to. Several. Works. When it was determined to extend the present edition of Fielding, not merely by the addition of Jonathan Wild to the three universally popular novels, but by two volumes of Miscellanies ...
Henry Fielding. Introduction. to. Several. Works. When it was determined to extend the present edition of Fielding, not merely by the addition of Jonathan Wild to the three universally popular novels, but by two volumes of Miscellanies ...
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... carried it northwards; the English essayists had almost from the beginning continued the process of acclimatization. Fielding therefore found it ready to his hand, though the present condition of this example would lead 6.
... carried it northwards; the English essayists had almost from the beginning continued the process of acclimatization. Fielding therefore found it ready to his hand, though the present condition of this example would lead 6.
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Henry Fielding. hand, though the present condition of this example would lead us to suppose that he did not find his hand quite ready to it. Still, in the actual "j ourney," there are touches enough of the master—not yet quite in his ...
Henry Fielding. hand, though the present condition of this example would lead us to suppose that he did not find his hand quite ready to it. Still, in the actual "j ourney," there are touches enough of the master—not yet quite in his ...
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... present author is the chief, who are never really at home but in one kind. In Fielding's case that kind was narrative of a peculiar sort, half-sentimental, halfsatirical, and almost wholly sympathetic—narrative which has the singular ...
... present author is the chief, who are never really at home but in one kind. In Fielding's case that kind was narrative of a peculiar sort, half-sentimental, halfsatirical, and almost wholly sympathetic—narrative which has the singular ...
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... present herself so immediately as the adequate cause. The vanity of knowing more than other men is, perhaps, besides hunger, the only inducement to writing, at least to publishing, at all. Why then should not the voyage-writer be ...
... present herself so immediately as the adequate cause. The vanity of knowing more than other men is, perhaps, besides hunger, the only inducement to writing, at least to publishing, at all. Why then should not the voyage-writer be ...
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