Date: 1751

One may swell "with all the pride of flattered vanity" on a "new imaginary conquest over the heart" of an accomplished man

— Haywood [née Fowler], Eliza (1693?-1756)

Date: 1752

"Heroism, romantick Heroism, was rooted deeply in her Heart; it was her Habit of thinking, a Principle imbib'd from Education"

— Lennox, née Ramsay, (Barbara) Charlotte (1730/1?-1804)

Date: 1752

"Love, on the contrary, sprouts usually up in the richest and noblest Minds; but there unless nicely watched, pruned, and cultivated, and carefully kept clear of those vicious Weeds which are too apt to surround it, it branches forth into Wildness and Disorder, produces nothing desirable, but ch...

— Fielding, Henry (1707-1754)

Date: 1752

"Ambition scarce ever produces any Evil, but when it reigns in cruel and savage Bosoms; and Avarice seldom flourishes at all but in the basest and poorest Soil."

— Fielding, Henry (1707-1754)

Date: 1752

"Love ... sprouts usually up in the richest and noblest minds; but there, unless nicely watched, pruned, and cultivated, and carefully kept clear of those vicious weed which are too apt to surround it, it branches forth into wildness and disorder, produces nothing desirable, but chokes up and kil...

— Fielding, Henry (1707-1754)

Date: 1752

"'The greatest Difficulty,' added the Gentleman, 'which Persons of your Turn of Mind meet with, is in finding proper Objects of their Goodness: For nothing sure can be more irksome to a generous Mind, than to discover, that it hath thrown away all its good Offices on a Soil that bears no other Fr...

— Fielding, Henry (1707-1754)

Date: 1754

"The gardens and lawn seem from the windows of this spacious house to be as boundless as the mind of the owner, and as free and open as his countenance"

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

Date: 1754

"He took care therefore in the beginning, that wrong principles, the foulest of corruption, should not be planted in my young and tender bosom"

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

Date: 1754

"She taught me to cultivate simplicity, and to guard my mind against every the smallest degree of affectation"

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

Date: 1754

"The fear of false ridicule was from my infancy plucked up by the roots"

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