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                      THE WORKS OF HENRY FIELDING

                               EDITED BY

                           GEORGE SAINTSBURY

                           IN TWELVE VOLUMES

                                VOL. XI.

                              MISCELLANIES

                                VOL. I.

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                       A JOURNEY FROM THIS WORLD
                       TO THE NEXT AND A VOYAGE
                       TO LISBON BY
                       HENRY FIELDING ESQ

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                            EDITED BY GEORGE
                            SAINTSBURY WITH
                            ILLUSTRATIONS BY
                            HERBERT RAILTON
                            & F. J. WHEELER.

                   LONDON PUBLISHED BY J. M. DENT & CO.
                   AT ALDINE HOUSE IN GREAT EASTERN
                   STREET MDCCCXCIII




CONTENTS OF VOL. I.


                                                                    PAGE

INTRODUCTION                                                          xi

A JOURNEY FROM THIS WORLD
TO THE NEXT, ETC. ETC.

INTRODUCTION                                                           1

BOOK I.

CHAPTER I.

_The author dies, meets with Mercury, and is by him conducted
to the stage which sets out for the other world_                       4

CHAPTER II.

_In which the author first refutes some idle opinions concerning
spirits, and then the passengers relate their several deaths_          7

CHAPTER III.

_The adventures we met with in the City of Diseases_                  12

CHAPTER IV.

_Discourses on the road, and a description of the palace of Death_    20

CHAPTER V.

_The travellers proceed on their journey, and meet several
spirits who are coming into the flesh_                                23

CHAPTER VI.

_An account of the wheel of fortune, with a method of preparing
a spirit for this world_                                              28

CHAPTER VII.

_The proceedings of judge Minos at the gate of Elysium_               31

CHAPTER VIII.

_The adventures which the author met on his first entrance
into Elysium_                                                         37

CHAPTER IX.

_More adventures in Elysium_                                          40

CHAPTER X.

_The author is surprised at meeting Julian the apostate in
Elysium; but is satisfied by him by what means he procured
his entrance there. Julian relates his adventures in the character
of a slave_                                                           44

CHAPTER XI.

_In which Julian relates his adventures in the character of
an avaricious Jew_                                                    52

CHAPTER XII.

_What happened to Julian in the characters of a general, an
heir, a carpenter, and a beau_                                        56

CHAPTER XIII.

_Julian passes into a fop_                                            61

CHAPTER XIV

_Adventures in the person of a monk_                                  62

CHAPTER XV.

_Julian passes into the character of a fidler_                        64

CHAPTER XVI.

_The history of the wise man_                                         69

CHAPTER XVII.

_Julian enters into the person of a king_                             77

CHAPTER XVIII.

_Julian passes into a fool_                                           84

CHAPTER XIX.

_Julian appears in the character of a beggar_                         89

CHAPTER XX.

_Julian performs the part of a statesman_                             95

CHAPTER XXI.

_Julian's adventures in the post of a soldier_                       102

CHAPTER XXII.

_What happened to Julian in the person of a taylor_                  108

CHAPTER XXIII.

_The life of alderman Julian_                                        112

CHAPTER XXIV.

_Julian recounts what happened to him while he was a poet_           118

CHAPTER XXV.

_Julian performs the parts of a knight and a dancing-master_         122




BOOK XIX.

CHAPTER VII.

_Wherein Anna Boleyn relates the history of her life_                125




THE JOURNAL OF A VOYAGE TO

LISBON.

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DEDICATION TO THE PUBLIC                                             145

PREFACE                                                              147

INTRODUCTION                                                         156

THE VOYAGE                                                           169

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LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS

FIELDING'S TOMB AT LISBON                                  _Frontispiece_

I DESIRED HIM MUCH TO NAME A PRICE                               _