Quote of the day
To give an accurate and exhaustive account of that period would need a far less brilliant pen than mine.
Richard Jago

Born: October 1, 1715
Died: May 8, 1781 (aged 65)
Bio: Richard Jago was an English clergyman poet and minor landscape gardener from Warwickshire. Although his writing was not highly regarded by contemporaries, some of it was sufficiently novel to have several imitators.