Date: 1777
"When his reason returned, it settled into a melancholy, which time has soothed, not extinguished, which indeed seems to have become the habitual tone of his mind."
preview | full record— Mackenzie, Henry (1745-1831)
Date: 1780
"If my eventful tale / Hath touch'd the chords of pity in your heart, / And swell'd the sympathetic tear--soft tribute! / By gentle minds, to sorrow ever paid, / --Know, 'tis no stranger's woes I have related; / I am the object of my own sad story."
preview | full record— Cowley [née Parkhouse], Hannah (1743-1809)