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THE JOURNAL OF A VOYAGE TO LISBON
by Henry Fielding

CONTENTS
INTRODUCTION TO SEVERAL WORKS PREFACE
DEDICATION TO THE PUBLIC
INTRODUCTION TO THE VOYAGE TO LISBON THE VOYAGE

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 author's 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 Englishman's dislike to be "done" and
an Englishman's 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. Dobson's separate edition of
the Voyage, a little bibliographical problem about the first appearance
of this Journal in 1755. The best known issue of that year is much
shorter than the version inserted by Murphy and reprinted here, the
passages omitted being chiefly those reflecting on the captain, etc., and
so likely to seem invidious in a book published just after the author's

death, and for the benefit, as was expressly announced, of his family.
But the curious thing is that there is ANOTHER edition, of date so
early that some argument is necessary to determine the priority, which
does give these passages and is identical with the later or standard
version. For satisfaction on this point, however, I must refer readers to
Mr. Dobson himself.
There might have been a little, but not much, doubt as to a companion
piece for the Journal; for indeed, after we close this (with or without its
"Fragment on Bolingbroke"), the remainder of Fielding's work lies on a
distinctly lower level of interest. It is still interesting, or it would not be
given here. It still has--at least that part which here appears seems to its
editor to have--interest intrinsic and "simple of itself." But it is
impossible for anybody who speaks critically to deny that we now get
into the region where work is more interesting because of its authorship
than it would be if its authorship were different or unknown. To put the
same thing in a sharper antithesis, Fielding is interesting, first of all,
because he is the