"If invention then be only a capacity of finding, and not of creating, we must endeavour (if we would exercise this faculty) to to keep our mind's eye open, and on the search, and not close it up by bending all our thoughts on the gratification of some present humour"
The Cry: A New Dramatic Fable
2 entries in ESTC (1754).<br>
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See Fielding, Sarah and Jane Collier, <u>The Cry: A New Dramatic Fable</u>, 3 vols. (London: Printed for R. and J. Dodsley in Pall Mall, 1754). &lt;<a href="http://estc.bl.uk/T141110">Link to ESTC</a>&gt;