The six weeks that finished last year and began this, your very humble servant spent very agreeably in a madhouse at Hoxton.

Somewhere among the madhouses of Europe there is a lunatic.

He said of a performance that had lately come out, 'Sir, if you should search all the madhouses in England, you would not find ten men who would write so, and think it sense.

Tell me that the suicides and the convicts, the daughters dragged to shame and the mothers driven to the madhouse as a result of this panic, cannot be charged to anything unfair or dishonourable that you have done.

The bow is stretched all the time, and the nation is afflicted with a dreadful seriousness that suggests the madhouse by its lack of humour and gaiety.

FOOTNOTES: From the beginning of Julian and Maddalo, which relates a ride taken by Shelley with Lord Byron, on the Lido, and their visit to the madhouse on its neighbouring island.