Date: 1749

"He told his Nephew, 'he wished with all his Heart he would endeavour to conquer a Passion, in which I cannot,' says he, 'flatter you with any Hopes of succeeding."

— Fielding, Henry (1707-1754)

Date: 1752

Affections struggle for superiority in the mind

— Fielding, Henry (1707-1754)

Date: 1752

"Upon the whole, however, she past a miserable and sleepless Night, her gentle Mind torn and distracted with various and contending Passions, distressed with Doubts, and wandring in a kind of Twilight, which presented her only Objects of different Degrees of Horrour, and where black Despair close...

— Fielding, Henry (1707-1754)

Date: 1752

Many "kind Words" and "many kind Looks" may make an entire Conquest of the Heart

— Fielding, Henry (1707-1754)