Date: 1742

"When Thou dost in my Heart appear, / And Love erects its Throne, / I then enjoy Salvation here, / And Heaven on Earth begun."

— Wesley, John and Charles

Date: 1742

"O Lord, my God, with shame I own / That other lords have sway'd, / Have in my heart set up their throne, / And abject I obey'd."

— Wesley, John and Charles

Date: 1742

"Enter my Heart, and fix Thy Throne / Thy Everlasting Presence there."

— Wesley, John and Charles

Date: 1742

"Thy presence, Lord, the place shall fill, / My heart shall be Thy throne, / Thy holy, just, and perfect will / Shall in my flesh be done."

— Wesley, John and Charles

Date: 1743

"This young Lady, amongst many other good Ingredients, had three very predominant Passions, to wit, Vanity, Wantonness, and Avarice."

— Fielding, Henry (1707-1754)

Date: 1743

"As his most powerful and predominant Passion was Ambition, so Nature had with consummate Propriety, adapted all his Faculties to the attaining those glorious Ends, to which this Passion directed him."

— Fielding, Henry (1707-1754)

Date: 1743

"Upon this, my Son Swane invaded the Coasts with several Ships, and committed many outragious Cruelties; which, indeed, did his business, as they served me to apply to the Fear of this King, which I had long since discovered to be his predominant Passion."

— Fielding, Henry (1707-1754)

Date: 1743

"He was very bad at acting any Part that was not quite sincere; but the present Confusion of her Mind was so great, she could not distinguish very clearly; and not knowing he was acquainted with what had passed between her and her Confidant, his Behaviour threw her into a great Consternation, and...

— Fielding, Henry (1707-1754)

Date: 1743

"Reason, however we flatter ourselves, hath not such despotic Empire in our Minds, that it can, with imperial Voice, hush all our Sorrow in a Moment"

— Fielding, Henry (1707-1754)

Date: 1743

It may cost one "more struggling than may easily be believed, utterly to conquer his Reluctance, and to banish away every Degree of Humanity from his Mind"

— Fielding, Henry (1707-1754)