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Quotation from The Journal of a Voyage to Lisbon by Henry Fielding
“I should have honored and loved Homer more had he written a true history of his own times in humble prose”
The Journal of a Voyage to Lisbon, Preface (Project Gutenberg #1146 (Murphy text))
Fielding's case for travel-writing as history rather than romance.
Citation: "I should have honored and loved Homer more had he written a true history of his own times in humble prose" — Henry Fielding, The Journal of a Voyage to Lisbon, Preface (Project Gutenberg #1146 (Murphy text)). (id fielding-journal-of-a-voyage-to-lisbon-q5)
