Did a flash of lightning bare his soul to the misery, the betrayal and the madness of the world?

There was a madness in the place for things from England, and unless a man could label his wares "London-made," he could not hope to catch a buyer's fancy.

Upon their way back to the hotel, guardian and ward met Mr. BENTHAM, who, from the moment of becoming a character in their Story, had been possessed with that mysterious madness for open-air exercise which afflicted every acquaintance of the late EDWIN DROOD, and now saluted them in the broiling street and solemnly besought their company for a long walk.

But no madness on the part of a people can justify the shedding of innocent blood, and what have they paid for it?

To give it too free rein means madness with no less devastation.

At last, faint through loss of blood, they brought their madness to its climax by hurling the organs in their hands into the nearest houses, so forcing the owners to take them in, and provide them with female wearing apparel, and the other feminine accoutrements of war.

You no more think of madness by having windows that look to Bedlam, than you think of death by having windows that look to a church-yard.'

The madness from aboveThe bow of UlyssesThe slaughterThe conclusion 308 MRS.

I. Lamb's thesis is borrowed from Dryden's couplet (in Absalom and Achitophel, Part I., lines 163, 164): Great wits are sure to madness near allied, And thin partitions do their bounds divide.

Johnson said there must have been a degree of madness about him.

So that for a moment he had dreamed of trying the treatment with the old mother; then he began to have scruples, he felt a sort of awe, without counting that madness at that age was total, irreparable ruin.

" The big man, with all the madness out of him, put his towsy head in his hands, and a sob shook his great shoulders.

The rollicking frost-sprite will blow his madness into me.

But this Bastard said that love came often like madness among the pale-faces, and that it was that alone which had driven you.

There was a pain in his head, looking at it; his nerves grew cold and rigid, as yours do when something wrings your heart sharply: for there are nerves in these black carcasses, thicker, more quickly stung to madness than yours.

And she had attained to this pitch of madness through the boundless despair in which the loss of her only son had plunged her, withered, consumed by a love which she could not content, then demented, perverted to the point of crime.

" Arthur had thrown off the boathook, but some half-dozen armed men had already leaped into the frail vessel, crowding it to such an extent that a struggle, even had it not been madness against such odds, would have occasioned great personal danger to Oriana.

The degree of this distemper will be in proportion to the prevalence of imagination over reason, and, according to this proportion, amount to more or less of the whimsical; but when reason shall become, as it were, extinct, and imagination govern alone, then the distemper will be madness under the wildest and most fantastic modes.

for I had surely saved Mine Own from the terror of the Second Night Land, and she not to have come alone and with madness unto her death; but to have died in mine arms; and she surely to have been comforted within her spirit, because that my love did be so utter about her.

Hyacinth Halvey: That dog you were talking of, that is raging through the district and the towndid it leave any madness after it?

The Empress Elizabeth, as was inevitable, at last drank herself to death, and her nephew Peter, now a besotted imbecile of thirty-four, put on the Imperial robes, and was free to indulge his madness without restraint.

Bartley Fallon: Isn't it enough to have madness before me, that you will not let me go fall in my own choice place? Hyacinth Halvey: The neighbours would think it bad of me to let a raving man out into their midst.