Melancholy (1780) [ Concepts ]
… and he knows that his mind is sick, his gloomy imagination is so powerful that he cannot disentangle himself from its influence, and he is in effect persuaded that its hideous representations of life are true. In all other distresses there … in the mean time he will have celestial emanations imparted to him. While writing this paper, I have by some gracious influence been insensibly relieved from the distress under which I laboured when I began it. May the same happy change be …
Melancholy
Anthology