Date: 1754

"For these I'll melt my brain into invention, / Coin new conceits, and hang my richest words / As polish'd jewels in their bounteous ears."

— Fielding, Sarah (1710-1768) and Jane Collier (bap. 1715, d. 1755)

Date: 1754

"And friendship with the bless'd, new fervour gains, / Exalted fervour, free from earth's cold dross, / And each alloy, that sensual hearts engross;"

— Jones, Henry (1721-1770)

Date: 1754

"If, holy Father, to be here distress'd, / Seals the repenting Soul to heav'nly rest,"

— Jeffreys, George (1678-1755)

Date: 1754

"The human mind, and every part of intelligent nature, is exempt from these laws [of the physical world], and hath the power of cherishing one seed and stifling another"

— Fielding, Sarah (1710-1768) and Jane Collier (bap. 1715, d. 1755)

Date: 1754

"The mind that chuses to nourish the turba, by a restless desire after impossibilities, takes delight, like the fireship, to communicate its devouring flame to all that are so miserable as to fall in its way"

— Fielding, Sarah (1710-1768) and Jane Collier (bap. 1715, d. 1755)

Date: 1754

"But this consuming flame arises first in its own breast; and, let him roam where he will, such a man, like the poor wounded stag, still carries the arrow sticking in his heart"

— Fielding, Sarah (1710-1768) and Jane Collier (bap. 1715, d. 1755)

Date: 1754

"But this consuming flame arises first in its own breast; and, let him roam where he will, such a man, like the poor wounded stag, still carries the arrow sticking in his heart; or rather like a mad dog, enraged with his own misery, endeavours to bite and poison, with his own venomous foam, every...

— Fielding, Sarah (1710-1768) and Jane Collier (bap. 1715, d. 1755)

Date: 1754

"The gardens and lawn seem from the windows of this spacious house to be as boundless as the mind of the owner, and as free and open as his countenance"

— Richardson, Samuel (bap. 1689, d. 1761)

Date: 1754

There is "narrow-hearted race of men, who live only for the gratification of their own lawless appetites, and consider all the rest of the world as made for themselves"

— Richardson, Samuel (bap. 1689, d. 1761)

Date: 1754

"My brother, tho' in the main, above singularity, will, nevertheless, in things he thinks right, be govern'd by his own rules, which are the laws of reason and convenience."

— Richardson, Samuel (bap. 1689, d. 1761)