Date: 1759

"It is difficult to conquer the Passions, but it is impossible to satisfy them"

— Fielding, Sarah (1710-1768)

Date: 1759

The passions may "rebel against their proper Guide, and forcibly snatch the Reins out of the Hands of that Governor appointed to restrain and keep them within their own prescribed Bounds"

— Fielding, Sarah (1710-1768)

Date: 1759

"[Y]et such was the Strength of his Passions, that he could not immediately conquer his Love"

— 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"

— 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"

— 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.

— Fielding, Sarah (1710-1768)

Date: 1759

"A Stranger, and a Foreigner to her Bosom (Self-applause) was joyfully welcomed home, and embraced"

— 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."

— 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...

— 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."

— Fielding, Sarah (1710-1768)