Date: 1749

One may give and take "with a gust inexpressible, a kiss of welcome, that my heart rising to my lips, stamp'd with its warmest impression"

— Cleland, John (bap. 1710, d. 1789)

Date: 1749

"The Remembrance of past Pleasures affects us with a kind of tender Grief, like what we suffer for departed Friends; and the Ideas of both may be said to haunt our Imaginations"

— Fielding, Henry (1707-1754)

Date: 1749

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

— Fielding, Henry (1707-1754)

Date: 1749

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

— Fielding, Henry (1707-1754)

Date: 1749

"In Fact, poor Jones was one of the best-natured Fellows alive, and had all that Weakness which is called Compassion, and which distinguishes this imperfect Character from that noble Firmness of Mind, which rolls a Man, as it were, within himself, and, like a polished Bowl, enables him to run thr...

— Fielding, Henry (1707-1754)

Date: 1749

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

— Fielding, Henry (1707-1754)

Date: 1749

"Refinement was not able to stand very long against the Voice of Nature, which cried in his Heart, that such Friendship was Treason to Love."

— Fielding, Henry (1707-1754)

Date: 1750

"For then, tho' I cannot give you my Heart, I shall have given you a Title to it, and you will have a lawful Claim to its Allegiance"

— Richardson, Samuel (bap. 1689, d. 1761)

Date: 1751

"This Speech, I own, gave me the first Reflection I ever had in my Life, and lock'd up all my Faculties for a long Time; nor was I able, for the Variety of Ideas that crowded my Brain, to make a Word of Answer, but stood like an Image of Stone"

— Paltock, Robert (1697-1767)

Date: 1751

"Tears gushing again, my heart fluttering as a bird against its wires; drying my eyes again and again to no purpose."

— Richardson, Samuel (bap. 1689, d. 1761)