Date: 1742
A lady may be "tortured with Perplexity; opposite Passions distracting and tearing her Mind different ways"
preview | full record— Fielding, Henry (1707-1754)
Date: 1742
"The same Mistakes may likewise be observed in Scarron, the Arabian Nights, the 'History of Marianne' and 'Le Paisan Parvenu', and perhaps some few other Writers of this Class, whom I have not read, or do not at present recollect; for I would by no means be thought to comprehend those great ...
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