Date: 1744

"but the French being a people in whom the love of glory is the predominant passion, were more than any other nation charmed with the greatness of that prince's soul."

— Haywood [née Fowler], Eliza (1693?-1756)

Date: 1744

"[W]e are here idle at present, but shall not long be so; and you will have occasions enough to prove your courage, and gratify that love of arms which, my brother informs me, is the predominant passion of your soul."

— Haywood [née Fowler], Eliza (1693?-1756)

Date: 1744

Beauty and the charms of a woman's conversation can make a conquest of a lover's heart far more complete than any prospect of interest could have done

— Haywood [née Fowler], Eliza (1693?-1756)

Date: 1744

"[Y]our eyes, at first sight, subdued my heart; but your virtue has since made a conquest of my soul"

— Haywood [née Fowler], Eliza (1693?-1756)

Date: 1744

"[H]eaven will sure excuse the error of an inclination which is born with us, and which not all our reason is of force to conquer"

— Haywood [née Fowler], Eliza (1693?-1756)

Date: 1744

"[T]he charming image of a city's brightest ornament" may be engraven on the heart by "the god of love ... in characters too indelible ever to be erased"

— Haywood [née Fowler], Eliza (1693?-1756)

Date: 1744

"Burn this paper, I conjure you, the moment you have read it; but lay the contents of it up in your heart never to be forgotten."

— Haywood [née Fowler], Eliza (1693?-1756)

Date: 1745

"These were Virtues unknown to him, who like the Ungrateful lessen'd the Obligations he had to her, by viewing his own Merit in the flattering Glass, his Fancy held before him. This false Mirror soon turn'd the Scale in his Favour, attributing her Choice of him to his own good Sense, which had Ar...

— Anonymous

Date: 1745

"The Idea of her lov'd Orsino presented itself to her distracted Imagination like an incens'd Lover to demand an Account of her Conduct: Which made such an Impression on her Mind, that she could scarce find Amusements for a few Hours, in all the Pleasures that surrounded her."

— Anonymous

Date: 1749

The internal "Somewhat" may be considered "as sitting on its Throne in the Mind, like the Lord High Chancellor of this Kingdom in his Court; where it presides, governs, directs, judges, acquits and condemns according to Merit and Justice; with a Knowledge which nothing escapes, a Penetration whic...

— Fielding, Henry (1707-1754)