“What I mean by love ... is this. A sympathetic liking--excited by fancy, directed by judgment--and to which is joined also a most sincere desire of the good and happiness of its object.” MeanDesireLove IsObjectsJudgmentExcitedFancySincereSympathetic Author:Sarah Fielding
“[Allegory] is a flight by which the human wit attempts at one and the same time to investigate two objects, and consequently is fitted only to the most exalted geniuses.” HumansTwoLanguageObjectsGeniusWitFlightExaltedAllegory Book:The Life and Works of Sarah Fielding Source: The Life and Works of Sarah Fielding
“There is yet another kind of matrimonial dialect (which naturally succeeds this of talking at each other), which may very properlybe styled The Language Contradictory.... In the former, however plain the object of satire may be exhibited to the whole company, yet there always remains some little covering.... But in this last method, the defiance becomes more open and the impetuosity with which these contradictions are uttered (although the subjects of them are often of the most indifferent nature) evidently prove that they arise from passion.” KindMayLittlesWholeLastsPassionLanguageCompanyTalkingMarriageSubjectsObjectsSucceedProveMethodRemainsAriseFormerContradictionSatireIntoleranceIndifferentContradictoryCoveringDefianceDialect Author:Sarah Fielding
“I know not whether it would be too bold an assertion to say that candor makes capacity.... But in order to try the truth of any observation relating to the mind, the easiest method is to illustrate it by outward objects. If, for instance, a man was to sweat and labor all the days of his life to fill a chest which was already full, the absurdity of his vain endeavor would be glaring. In the same manner, when the human mind is filled and stuffed with notions brought thither by fallacious inclinations, there is no room for truth to enter: candor being banished, passions alone bear the sway.” IfsKnowsMenTryingMindHumansWould BeOrderPassionRoomsEducationObjectsBearsCapacityLaborMethodFilledNotionInstanceObservationVainHuman MindEndeavorChestsSweatAbsurdityInclinationAssertionCandor Author:Sarah Fielding
“Men look on knowledge which they learn--or might learn--from others as they do on the most beautiful structures which are not their own: in outward objects, they would rather behold their own hogsty than their neighbor's palace; and in mental ones, would prefer one grain of knowledge gained by their own observation to all the wisdom of a thousand Solomons.” MenLooksMightBeautifulObjectsThousandEconomicsStructurePropertyNeighborObservationGrainPalacesSolomonKnowledge Gained Author:Sarah Fielding
“Agreeable then to my present inclination, I formed the object of my own worship, which was no other than my own understanding.” SelfUnderstandingMy OwnEducationObjectsWorshipVanityInclination Book:The cry: a new dramatic fable : in two volumes Source: The cry: a new dramatic fable : in two volumes
“I often used to think myself in the case of the fox-hunter, who, when he had toiled and sweated all day in the chase as if some unheard-of blessing was to crown his success, finds at last all he has got by his labor is a stinking nauseous animal. But my condition was yet worse than his; for he leaves the loathsome wretch to be torn by his hounds, whilst I was obliged to fondle mine, and meanly pretend him to be the object of my love.” IfsThinkingLastsUsedAnimalMarriageCasesConditionsObjectsMinesBlessingLaborHuntingCrownsFoxesTornHuntersObligedDisillusionmentUnheardHounds Author:Sarah Fielding
