"Indeed Fear is never more uneasy, than when it doth not certainly know its Object: for on such Occasions the Mind is ever employed in raising a thousand Bugbears and Fantoms, much more dreadful than any Realities, and like Children, when they tell Tales of Hobgoblins, seems industrious in terrifying itself."
Amelia
13 entries in ESTC (1752, 1762, 1771, 1775, 1777, 1780, 1790, 1793).<br>
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See <u>Amelia. By Henry Fielding</u>, 4 vols. (London: A. Millar, 1752). &lt;<a href="http://find.galegroup.com/ecco/infomark.do?&source=gale&prodId=ECCO&userGroupName=viva_uva&tabID=T001&docId=CW3309679839&type=multipage&contentSet=ECCOArticles&version=1.0&docLevel=FASCIMILE">Link to ECCO</a>&gt;<br>
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Reading Henry Fielding, <u>Amelia</u>, ed. David Blewett (London: Penguin Books, 1987).