Penny Dreadfuls, 1781 · page 74 of 120
A Month's Tour, &c. — page 74: what you’re looking at
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This is a page of running prose from what appears to be a travel narrative or travelogue titled "A Month's Tour" (page 74). The text describes the narrator spending an afternoon at a friend's house recounting previous sightings and amusements, then retiring to their lodgings for the evening. The passage then digresses into a reflective meditation on domestic comfort, praising the "durable and permanent felicity" found at home over momentary diversions abroad, with particular mention of the narrator's good friend "Mr. W——" as someone especially susceptible to appreciating such domestic pleasures. The page breaks mid-sentence as a new day's account begins.
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74 A MONTH’s TOUR... \ REED OBOE Ie hse alg at gait We {pent the afternoon-at his houfe in recounting the wonders we had feen the preceding day, and in other amufements,. and then retired, according. to our ufual cuftom, for the remainder of the evening,. to enjoy ourfelves.at our own lodgings. It. is no inconfiderable bleffing to have the mind open to the enjoyment of domef- I know few whofe: feel- tic comforts. ings are fo fufceptible in this point as thofe of my good friend Mr. W——. Momen- tary diverfions and relaxations we may meet with abroad; but durable and per- manent felicity is to be found only at home. How I pity the man who is a 7 - ftranger to this! f On the fecond we were conducted by our » est ts - comicbooks.com