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更多好书请点击 THE JOURNAL OF A VOYAGE TO LISBON THE JOURNAL OF A VOYAGE TO LISBON by Henry Fielding 1 更多好书请点击 THE JOURNAL OF A VOYAGE TO LISBON 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, there could be no doubt about at least one of the contents of these latter. The Journal of a Voyage to Lisbon, if it does not rank in my estimation anywhere near to Jonathan Wild as an example of our authors genius, is an invaluable and delightful document for his character and memory. It is indeed, as has been pointed out in the General Introduction to this series, our main source of indisputable information as to Fielding dans son naturel, and its value, so far as it goes, is of the very highest. The gentle and unaffected stoicism which the author displays under a disease which he knew well was probably, if not certainly, mortal, and which, whether mortal or not, must cause him much actual pain and discomfort of a kind more intolerable than pain itself; his affectionate care for his family; even little personal touches, less admirable, but hardly less pleasant than these, showing an Englishmans dislike to be done and an Englishmans determination to be treated with proper respect, are scarcely less noticeable and important on the biographical side than the unimpaired brilliancy of his satiric and yet kindly observation of life and character is on the side of literature. There is, as is now well known since Mr. Dobsons separate edition of the Voyage, a little bibliographical problem