Date: 1773

"he would have uttered a prayer; but his soul was wound up to a pitch that could but one way be let down--he flung himself on the ground, and burst into an agony of tears."

— Mackenzie, Henry (1745-1831)

Date: 1773

"So forcibly indeed was Sindall struck with it, that some little time past before he thought of lifting her from the ground; he looked indeed his very soul at every glance; but it was a soul unworthy of the object on which he gazed, brutal, unfeeling and inhuman; he considered her, at that moment...

— Mackenzie, Henry (1745-1831)

Date: 1773

"After having weathered so many successive disasters, I am at last arrived near the place of my nativity; fain would I hope, that a parent and a sister, whose tender remembrance, mingled with that of happier days, now rushes on my soul, are yet alive to pardon the wanderings of my youth, and rece...

— Mackenzie, Henry (1745-1831)

Date: 1773

"I know not, said he, most lovely of women, whether I should venture to express the sensations of my heart at this moment; that respect which ever attends a love so sincere as mine, has hitherto kept me silent; but the late accident, in which all that I hold dear was endangered, has opened every ...

— Mackenzie, Henry (1745-1831)

Date: 1773

"Not but that there moved something unusual in the bosom of Harriet, from the declaration of her lover, and in his, from the attempt which Providence had interposed to disappoint; he consoled himself, however, with the reflexion, that he had not gone such a length as to alarm her simplicity, and ...

— Mackenzie, Henry (1745-1831)

Date: 1773

"His sister, whose gentle heart began to droop under the thoughts of their separation, he employed every argument to comfort."

— Mackenzie, Henry (1745-1831)

Date: 1773

"Nor did his imagination fail him in the picture, after that help was taken from her."

— Mackenzie, Henry (1745-1831)

Date: 1773

"When he was told of Mrs. Wistanly's arrival, he desired to see her, and taking her hand, "I have sent for you, madam, said he, that you may help me to unload my soul of the remembrance of the past."

— Mackenzie, Henry (1745-1831)

Date: 1773

"I come not, said he, my Harriet, as a despot to command, not as a father to persuade, but merely as the friend of Mr. Rawlinson, to disclose his sentiments; that you should judge for yourself, in a matter of the highest importance to you, is the voice of reason and of nature; I blush for those p...

— Mackenzie, Henry (1745-1831)

Date: 1773

"The flattering language of his letters could not arrest the progress of that time, which must divulge the shame of her he had undone; but they soothed the tumults of a soul to whom his villany was yet unknown, and whose affections his appearance of worth, of friendship, and nobleness of mind, ha...

— Mackenzie, Henry (1745-1831)