I in great Transport threw open the Door of my Chamber, and found the greatest Part of the Family standing on the Outside in a very great Consternation
1714 August 17 (Gregorian calendar), [Joseph Addison], “FRIDAY, August 6, 1714”, in The Spectator, number 577; republished in Alexander Chalmers, editor, The Spectator; a New Edition, […], volume VI, New York, N.Y.: D[aniel] Appleton & Company, 1853