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...

— Fielding, Henry (1707-1754)

Date: 1778, 1779

"How rapid was then my Evelina's progress through those regions of fancy and passion whither her new guide conducted her!"

— Burney [married name D'Arblay], Frances (1752-1840)