Date: 1749

"My heart is melting wax;"

— Wesley, Charles (1707-1788)

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: Tuesday, May 15, 1750

"Nor is fear, the most overbearing and resistless of all our passions, less to be temperated by this universal medicine of the mind."

— Johnson, Samuel (1709-1784)

Date: Saturday, July 28, 1750

"Thus in time want is enlarged without bounds; an eagerness for increase of possessions deluges the soul, and we sink into the gulphs of insatiability, only because we do not sufficiently consider, that all real need is very soon supplied, and all real danger of its invasion easily precluded."

— Johnson, Samuel (1709-1784)