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AND Politics of Author: "Opposition (Later Pro-Pelhamite)"

AND Nationality of Author: "English"

AND Gender of Author: "Male"

AND Literary Period: "Eighteenth Century"

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Date: 1749

"He told his Nephew, 'he wished with all his Heart he would endeavour to conquer a Passion, in which I cannot,' says he, 'flatter you with any Hopes of succeeding."

— Fielding, Henry (1707-1754)

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Date: 1752

Affections struggle for superiority in the mind

— Fielding, Henry (1707-1754)

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Date: 1752

"Upon the whole, however, she past a miserable and sleepless Night, her gentle Mind torn and distracted with various and contending Passions, distressed with Doubts, and wandring in a kind of Twilight, which presented her only Objects of different Degrees of Horrour, and where black Despair close...