"A heavy Melancholy clouds my Spirits; my Imagination is fill'd with gashly Forms of dreary Graves, and Bodies chang'd by Death,--when the pale lengthen'd Visage attracks each weeping Eye,--and fills the musing Soul, at once, with Grief and Horror, Pity and Aversion."
The London Merchant: or, the History of George Barnwell
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See <u>The London Merchant: or, the History of George Barnwell. As it is Acted at the Theatre-Royal in Drury-Lane. By His Majesty's Servants. By Mr. Lillo</u> (London: Printed for J. Gray, 1731). &lt;<a href="http://name.umdl.umich.edu/004807076.0001.000">Link to ECCO-TCP</a>&gt;