Date: 1752

"And when this Conceit once had Birth in his Mind, several Circumstances nourished and improved it."

— Fielding, Henry (1707-1754)

Date: 1752

"'For Heaven's sake,' cries Amelia, 'do not delay my Request any longer? What you say now greatly increases my Curiosity; and my Mind will be on the Rack till you discover your whole Meaning: for I am more and more convinced, that something of the utmost Importance was the Purport of your Messag...

— Fielding, Henry (1707-1754)

Date: 1752

"The first is, that a Mind once violently hurt grows, as it were, callous to any future Impressions of Grief; and is never capable of feeling the same Pangs a second Time."

— Fielding, Henry (1707-1754)

Date: 1752

The passions feed on the mind's delicacies

— Fielding, Henry (1707-1754)

Date: 1752

The mind may be diseased with a kind of ague fit

— Fielding, Henry (1707-1754)

Date: 1752

The mind bears a mental burthen as the body bears a physical one

— Fielding, Henry (1707-1754)

Date: 1752

"You know, my Dear, how gloomy the Prospect was Yesterday before our Eyes, how inevitable Ruin stared me in the Face; and the dreadful Idea of having entailed Beggary on my Amelia and her Posterity racked my Mind."

— Fielding, Henry (1707-1754)

Date: 1752

"By the latter I shall see whether you can keep a Secret; and if it is no otherwise material, it will be a wholesome Exercise to your Mind; for the Practice of any Virtue is a kind of mental Exercise, and serves to maintain the Health and Vigour of the Soul."

— Fielding, Henry (1707-1754)

Date: 1754

Authors may "awaken the judgment to exert itself, so as to reject all the alluring bribes which the passions, assisted by the imagination, can offer"

— Fielding, Sarah (1710-1768) and Jane Collier (bap. 1715, d. 1755)

Date: 1754

"But the eye here made use of must be the mind's eye (as Shakespear, with his peculiar aptness of expression, calls it) and so strictly just is this metaphor, that nothing is apparently more frequent than a perverse shutting of this mental eye when we have not an inclination to perceive th...

— Fielding, Sarah (1710-1768) and Jane Collier (bap. 1715, d. 1755)