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Date: 1759
"[Y]et such was the Strength of his Passions, that he could not immediately conquer his Love"
preview | full record— Fielding, Sarah (1710-1768)
Date: 1759
"His Inclination for Lady Dellwyn's Beauty had not Power enough to blot out of his Memory the principal View of all his Actions"
preview | full record— Fielding, Sarah (1710-1768)
Date: 1759
"But the Nets woven by the human Imagination, altho' they are composed of the smallest Materials, are perhaps full as difficult to be broken as the strongest real Bonds"
preview | full record— Fielding, Sarah (1710-1768)
Date: 1759
"Lady Dellwyn now felt herself bound in the most whimsical Chain, made only by her own Imagination, which had imposed on her the Belief that she was bereft of all Liberty of breaking off her Acquaintance with Lord Clermont.
preview | full record— Fielding, Sarah (1710-1768)
Date: 1759
"A Stranger, and a Foreigner to her Bosom (Self-applause) was joyfully welcomed home, and embraced"
preview | full record— Fielding, Sarah (1710-1768)
Date: 1759
"[A]nd her Mind, at that time, might be likened to a Theatre, on which the Tragedy of a glittering Cross, and a Pair of Diamond Ear-rings, was acting, with much more Propriety than the envious Critic called Othello The Tragedy of the Handkerchief."
preview | full record— Fielding, Sarah (1710-1768)
Date: 1759
"The Lady, who now engrossed all Lord Dellwyn's Panegyric, did indeed deserve much more than he could pay, having risen to a Degree of Excellence far above his Lordship's Comprehension; his Mind's Eye, according to Hamlet's Expression, was so shortsighted, it could only disti...
preview | full record— Fielding, Sarah (1710-1768)
Date: 1759
"Lady Dellwyn now delighted her Fancy with erecting a Pair of mental Scales; in One Balance placing her own newly-discovered Merits, and in the other all such Virtue as she allowed her Lord to be possessed of."
preview | full record— Fielding, Sarah (1710-1768)
Date: 1759
"From the very kind and warm Expressions of fatherly Fondness in this Letter, a small Ray of Hope darted into Lady Dellwyn's Mind."
preview | full record— Fielding, Sarah (1710-1768)
Date: 1759
"This [her own Mind] being haunted with Ghosts, dejected with an unaccountable Melancholy, and afflicted with a Variety of Distempers, tho' we are at a Loss to discover what Appellation to give them, is very often the Result of nothing more than a strong Imagination unimployed, which could be all...
preview | full record— Fielding, Sarah (1710-1768)
