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Quotation from The Journal of a Voyage to Lisbon by Henry Fielding
“On this day the most melancholy sun I had ever beheld arose, and found me awake at my house at Fordhook”
The Journal of a Voyage to Lisbon, The Voyage, Wednesday, June 26, 1754 (Project Gutenberg #1146 (Murphy text))
The opening sentence of the journal proper, on the morning he left his younger children.
Citation: "On this day the most melancholy sun I had ever beheld arose, and found me awake at my house at Fordhook" — Henry Fielding, The Journal of a Voyage to Lisbon, The Voyage, Wednesday, June 26, 1754 (Project Gutenberg #1146 (Murphy text)). (id fielding-journal-of-a-voyage-to-lisbon-q1)
