Date: 1777
"[H]er spirits droop more than her body; she is thoughtful and melancholy when she thinks she is not observed, and, what pleases me worse, affects to appear otherwise, when she is"
preview | full record— Mackenzie, Henry (1745-1831)
Date: w. 1782, 1786, 1816
"'Drink then this draught,' said the stranger, as he presented to him a phial of a red and yellow mixture: 'and, to satiate the thirst of thy soul, as well as of thy body, know, that I am an Indian; but, from a region of India, which is wholly unknown.'"
preview | full record— Beckford, William (1760-1844)