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Date: 1749

The "internal Somewhat" may be considered "as sitting on its Throne in the Mind, like the Lord High Chancellor of this Kingdom in his Court; where it presides, governs, directs, judges, acquits and condemns according to Merit and Justice; with a Knowledge which nothing escapes, a Penetration whic...

— Fielding, Henry (1707-1754)

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Date: 1749

One may feel a "glowing Warmth" which fills the Breast, on the first Contemplation of a Victory over his Passion

— Fielding, Henry (1707-1754)

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Date: 1749

"Sophia soon returned to his Imagination, and allayed the Joy of his Triumph with no less bitter Pangs than a good-natured General must feel when he surveys the bleeding Heaps, at the Price of whose Blood he hath purchased his Laurels; for thousands of tender Ideas lay murdered before our ...

— Fielding, Henry (1707-1754)

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Date: 1749

One may make "many ardent Professions of Passion which nothing could conquer"

— Fielding, Henry (1707-1754)

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Date: 1749

"Indeed what Square had said sunk very deeply into his Mind, and the Uneasiness which it there created was very visible to the other"

— Fielding, Henry (1707-1754)

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Date: 1749

Dirt or Rags cannot "hide this Something [in true Beauty] from those Souls which are not of the vulgar Stamp"

— Fielding, Henry (1707-1754)

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Date: 1749

"[L]et the Remembrance of what past at Upton blot me for ever from your Mind"

— Fielding, Henry (1707-1754)

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Date: 1749

"This Letter Lady Bellaston thought would certainly turn the Balance against Jones in the Mind of Sophia"

— Fielding, Henry (1707-1754)

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Date: 1749

We may "consider a Book as the Author's Offspring, and indeed as the Child of his Brain"

— Fielding, Henry (1707-1754)

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Date: 1749

"For such was the Compassion which inhabited Mr. Allworthy's Mind, that nothing but the Steel of Justice could ever subdue it. "

— Fielding, Henry (1707-1754)

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The Mind is a Metaphor is authored by Brad Pasanek, Assistant Professor of English, University of Virginia.