madnesse

The first use of Bedlam on a title page came in 1615, with the appearance of Mystical Bedlam by the Puritan divine Thomas Adams 15801653, who took as his text Ecclesiastes 9: 3: The heart of the Sonnes of men is full of evil, and madnesse is in their heart while they live.11

Bedlam Catharine Arnold 2008

The first use of Bedlam on a title page came in 1615, with the appearance of Mystical Bedlam by the Puritan divine Thomas Adams 15801653, who took as his text Ecclesiastes 9: 3: The heart of the Sonnes of men is full of evil, and madnesse is in their heart while they live.11

Bedlam Catharine Arnold 2008

The first use of Bedlam on a title page came in 1615, with the appearance of Mystical Bedlam by the Puritan divine Thomas Adams 15801653, who took as his text Ecclesiastes 9: 3: The heart of the Sonnes of men is full of evil, and madnesse is in their heart while they live.11

Bedlam Catharine Arnold 2008

In furious madnesse will they come upon us, and our house, where

The Decameron 2004

I not a little muse, what madnesse makes them paint Their faces, waying how they keepe the stooue by meere constraint.

The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation 2003

Anger the Stoickes said, was a short madnesse {36}: let but Sophocles bring you Ajax on a stage, killing or whipping sheepe and oxen, thinking them the Army of Greekes, with their Chieftaines Agamemnon, and Menelaus: and tell me if you have not a more familiar insight into Anger, then finding in the schoolemen his Genus and Difference.

Defence of Poesie 1992

Then they closed and locked fast the doores about me, and kept the chamber round, till such time as they thought that the pestilent rage of madnesse had killed me.

The Golden Asse Lucius Apuleius

Anacharsis saith, that the first draught is to quench the thirst, the second for nourishment, the third for pleasure, the fourth for madnesse.

The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 12, No. 348, December 27, 1828 Various

Fyrste when it is set before, and is called _preiunctio_, as: There dyd ouercome in hym, lechery, his chastitie, saucines his feare, madnesse hys reason.

A Treatise of Schemes and Tropes Richard Sherry

Which when I saw I was greatly astonied: and although I was inchanted by no kind of charme, yet I thought that I seemed not to have the likenesse of Lucius, for so was I banished from my sences, amazed in madnesse, and so I dreamed waking, that I felt myne eyes, whether I were asleepe or no.

The Golden Asse Lucius Apuleius