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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... sometimes darts a ray as bright as ever. In like manner, a strong and lively genius will, in its last struggles, sometimes mount aloft, and throw forth the most striking marks of its original luster. Wherever these are to be found, do ...
... sometimes darts a ray as bright as ever. In like manner, a strong and lively genius will, in its last struggles, sometimes mount aloft, and throw forth the most striking marks of its original luster. Wherever these are to be found, do ...
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... sometimes, I believe, in the actions of men. There is another fault, of a kind directly opposite to this, to which these writers are sometimes liable, when, instead of filling their pages with monsters which nobody hath ever seen, and ...
... sometimes, I believe, in the actions of men. There is another fault, of a kind directly opposite to this, to which these writers are sometimes liable, when, instead of filling their pages with monsters which nobody hath ever seen, and ...
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... sometimes set their own real names, and sometimes a fictitious one. One hint, however, I must give the kind reader; which is, that if he should be able to find no sort of amusement in the book, he will be pleased to remember the public ...
... sometimes set their own real names, and sometimes a fictitious one. One hint, however, I must give the kind reader; which is, that if he should be able to find no sort of amusement in the book, he will be pleased to remember the public ...
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... sometimes whole nights, especially when there was any difficulty in procuring sufficient evidence to convict them; which is a very common case in streetrobberies, even when the guilt of the party is sufficiently apparent to satisfy the ...
... sometimes whole nights, especially when there was any difficulty in procuring sufficient evidence to convict them; which is a very common case in streetrobberies, even when the guilt of the party is sufficiently apparent to satisfy the ...
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... sometimes drawn into guilt; and sometimes, which cannot be thought on without the highest horror, had destroyed them without it. T hirdly, that my plan had not put the government to more than three hundred pound expense, and had ...
... sometimes drawn into guilt; and sometimes, which cannot be thought on without the highest horror, had destroyed them without it. T hirdly, that my plan had not put the government to more than three hundred pound expense, and had ...
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