"This [her own Mind] being haunted with Ghosts, dejected with an unaccountable Melancholy, and afflicted with a Variety of Distempers, tho' we are at a Loss to discover what Appellation to give them, is very often the Result of nothing more than a strong Imagination unimployed, which could be all alive and merry if it was not confined to some Scene of Dullness, which curbs all its Pleasures; and then, rather than be motionless, it chuses to be mischievous, bearing in that respect a strong Resemblance to the Activity of the Monkey, whose chief Glory is to mimick Man, and who, as far as that Mimickry goes, is a most perfect Master of that Branch of Ridicule."
The History of the Countess of Dellwyn
2 entries in the ESTC (1759).<br>
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See <u>The History of the Countess of Dellwyn. In Two Volumes: By the Author of David Simple.</u> (London: Printed for A. Millar, 1759). &lt;<a href="http://estc.bl.uk/T66941">Link to ESTC</a>&gt;