"Love ... sprouts usually up in the richest and noblest minds; but there, unless nicely watched, pruned, and cultivated, and carefully kept clear of those vicious weed which are too apt to surround it, it branches forth into wildness and disorder, produces nothing desirable, but chokes up and kills whatever is good and noble in the mind where it so abounds."
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).