Date: 1751
"Whereas those darts, which fly from the perfections of the mind, penetrate into the soul, and fix a lasting empire there."
preview | full record— Haywood [née Fowler], Eliza (1693?-1756)
Date: 1752
"The early days of wedded life / Are oft o'ercast by childish strife; / Then be it your peculiar care / To keep that season bright and fair; / For then's the time by gentle art / To fix your empire in his heart."
preview | full record— Clark [née Lewis], Esther (bap. 1716, d. 1794)
Date: 1753
Anger and contempt may be predominant passions of the mind
preview | full record— Haywood [née Fowler], Eliza (1693?-1756)
Date: 1753
"Exert then the whole force of your reason to curb the incroachments of lawless passion in your own heart"
preview | full record— Haywood [née Fowler], Eliza (1693?-1756)
Date: 1754
"There appears to be but two grand master passions or movers in the human mind, namely, Love and Pride."
preview | full record— Fielding, Sarah (1710-1768) and Jane Collier (bap. 1715, d. 1755)
Date: 1754
There are "inherent and predominant" passions in the soul
preview | full record— Fielding, Sarah (1710-1768) and Jane Collier (bap. 1715, d. 1755)
Date: 1754
"I was by him conveyed in imagination on the throne of judgment, and all nature seemed waiting with dependence on my determination."
preview | full record— Fielding, Sarah (1710-1768) and Jane Collier (bap. 1715, d. 1755)
Date: 1754
"The character of a candid enquirer is very commendable; for in his search whatever he finds he immediately acknowledges; he gives his judgment liberty to exert itself, and restrains his imagination from soaring beyond its strength, and from declaring that he hath found what is not."
preview | full record— Fielding, Sarah (1710-1768) and Jane Collier (bap. 1715, d. 1755)
Date: 1754
"But I could no longer divert myself by Proteus-like putting on that character which best suited my fancy; for I was now chain'd down and enslaved to the most rigid of all tyrants, an uncontroulable passion."
preview | full record— Fielding, Sarah (1710-1768) and Jane Collier (bap. 1715, d. 1755)
Date: 1754
"The human mind, and every part of intelligent nature, is exempt from these laws [of the physical world], and hath the power of cherishing one seed and stifling another"
preview | full record— Fielding, Sarah (1710-1768) and Jane Collier (bap. 1715, d. 1755)