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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 WORLDTO THE NEXT, ETC. ETC.

  INTRODUCTION 1

  BOOK I.

  CHAPTER I.

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

  CHAPTER II.

  _In which the author first refutes some idle opinions concerningspirits, 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 severalspirits who are coming into the flesh_ 23

  CHAPTER VI.

  _An account of the wheel of fortune, with a method of preparinga 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 entranceinto Elysium_ 37

  CHAPTER IX.

  _More adventures in Elysium_ 40

  CHAPTER X.

  _The author is surprised at meeting Julian the apostate inElysium; but is satisfied by him by what means he procuredhis entrance there. Julian relates his adventures in the characterof a slave_ 44

  CHAPTER XI.

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

  CHAPTER XII.

  _What happened to Julian in the characters of a general, anheir, 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