An imaginary belief may leave the mind and "like an enraged conqueror it vacated not the town till it had put to the sword all its peaceful inhabitants, till it had ravaged and laid waste every joyous thought within her bosom"
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;