Sarah Fielding Quotes
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.
Citations
Fielding, Sarah, and Jane Collier. The Cry: A New Dramatic Fable. Vol. 2, R. and J. Dodsley, 1754, p. 147.
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Sarah Fielding was an English author and sister of the novelist Henry Fielding. She wrote The Governess, or The Little Female Academy (1749), thought to be the first novel in English aimed expressly at children. Earlier she had success with her novel The Adventures of David Simple (1744).