Date: 1743

"[F]inding a Passion fixed in my Breast I knew not how to conquer, broke out into that inconsistent Behaviour, which must always be the Consequence of violent Passions"

— Fielding, Henry (1707-1754)

Date: 1749

"Thus, not all the Charms of the incomparable Sophia; not all the dazzling Brightness, and languishing Softness of her Eyes; the Harmony of her Voice, and of her Person; not all her Wit, good Humour, Greatness of Mind, or Sweetness of Disposition, had been able so absolutely to conquer and enslav...

— Fielding, Henry (1707-1754)

Date: 1749

"I am not used, Madam, said Jones, to submit to such sudden Conquests; but as you have taken my Heart by Surprize, the rest of my Body hath a Right to follow"

— Fielding, Henry (1707-1754)

Date: 1749

One may feel a "glowing Warmth" which fills the Breast, on the first Contemplation of a Victory over his Passion

— Fielding, Henry (1707-1754)

Date: 1749

"Sophia soon returned to his Imagination, and allayed the Joy of his Triumph with no less bitter Pangs than a good-natured General must feel when he surveys the bleeding Heaps, at the Price of whose Blood he hath purchased his Laurels; for thousands of tender Ideas lay murdered before our ...

— Fielding, Henry (1707-1754)

Date: 1749

One may make "many ardent Professions of Passion which nothing could conquer"

— Fielding, Henry (1707-1754)

Date: 1749

Plato, Aristotle, and other Greek authors "elevate the Mind, and steel and harden it against the capricious Invasions of Fortune."

— Fielding, Henry (1707-1754)

Date: 1749

"By this friendly Aid of Fear, Conscience obtained a compleat Victory in the Mind of Black George, and after making him a few Compliments on his Honesty, forced him to deliver the Money to Jones."

— Fielding, Henry (1707-1754)

Date: 1749

"Molly was charmed with the first Opportunity she had ever had of shewing her Beauty to Advantage; for though she could very well bear to contemplate herself in the Glass, even when drest in Rags; and though she had in that Dress conquered the Heart of Jones, and perhaps of some others; yet she t...

— Fielding, Henry (1707-1754)

Date: 1749

"Among other of his Conquests, this Fellow had triumphed over the Heart of Betty Seagrim."

— Fielding, Henry (1707-1754)