Fielding

Famous quotes containing the word 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.
    —Sarah Fielding (1710–1768)

    Agreeable then to my present inclination, I formed the object of my own worship, which was no other than my own understanding.
    —Sarah Fielding (1710–1768)

    But I choose to think he is escaped from the possibility of falling into any future afflictions, and that neither the malice of his pretended friends nor the sufferings of his real ones can ever again rend and torment his honest heart.
    —Sarah Fielding (1710–1768)