Fielding

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“In reality, the world have payed too great a compliment to critics, and have imagined them men of much greater profundity than they really are.”
—Henry Fielding (1707–1754)

“[W]hat 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.”
—Sarah Fielding (1710–1768)

“[Allegory] should ... be very sparingly practised, lest, whilst the writer plays with his own fancies and diverts himself by cutting the air with his wide spread wings, he should soar out of view of his readers, leaving them in confusion and perplexity to explore his viewless track.”
—Sarah Fielding (1710–1768)