 The size and grandeur of the edifice, indeed, drew down the ridicule of several of the wits of the age : by one of whom — the facetious Tom Brown — it was said, " Bedlam is a pleasant place, and abounds with amusements ; — the first of which is...  Jack Sheppard - Page 237by William Harrison Ainsworth - 1840Full view - About this book
 | 1839 - 742 pages
...We shall see," replied Jack. " But if I should not return, take this purse to Edgeworth Bess. You'll find her at Black Mary's Hole." And, having partaken...crack-brained society, raised in a mad age, when the chief of the city were in a great danger of losing their senses, and so contrived it the more noble... | |
 | Charles Dickens, William Harrison Ainsworth, Albert Smith - Literature - 1839 - 708 pages
...shall see," replied Jack. " But, if I should not return, take this purse to Edgeworth Bess. You '11 find her at Black Mary's Hole." And, having partaken...crack-brained society, raised in a mad age, when the chief of the city were in a great danger of losing their senses, and so contrived it the more noble... | |
 | William Harrison Ainsworth - 1839 - 338 pages
...set out. Taking his way along East Smithfield, mounting Little Tower-hill, and threading the Mmories and Hounsditch, he arrived without accident or molestation,...crackbrained society, raised in a mad age, when the chief of the city were in a great danger of losing their senses, and so contrived it the more noble... | |
 | William Harrison Ainsworth - English literature - 1900 - 578 pages
...abounds with amusements ; — the first of which is the building, so stately a fabric for persona wholy insensible of the beauty and use of it : the outside...crack-brained society, raised in a mad age, when the chief of the city were in a great danger of losing their senses, and so contrived it the more noble... | |
 | William Harrison Ainsworth - 1909 - 316 pages
...lunatics removed to Saint George's Field — was a vast and magnificent structure. Erected in Moorfield in 1675, upon the model of the Tuileries, it is said...crack-brained society, raised in a mad age, when the chief of the city were in a great danger of losing their senses, and so contrived it the more noble... | |
 | Torsten Hilding Svartengren - English language - 1918 - 566 pages
...things hang together like harp and harrow, as they say. Gataker, 1624, NED. [Bethlehem] Bedlam . . . whether the Name and Thing be not as disagreeable as Harp and Harrow. T. Brown, 1700, NED. — Harp and harrow are utterly different though the words alliterate. See Dissimilarity... | |
 | Thomas Brown - Amusements - 1927 - 536 pages
...insensible of the beauty and use of it ; the outside is a perfect mockery to the inside, and admits of two amusing queries, Whether the persons that ordered...of it, or those that inhabit it, were the maddest ? But what need I wonder at that, since the whole is but one entire amusement ? Some were preaching,... | |
 | Jonathan Andrews - Psychiatric hospitals - 1997 - 772 pages
...unsensible of the Beauty and Use of it: The Outside is a perfect Mockery to the Inside, and Admits of two Amusing Queries, Whether the Persons that ordered...Building of it, or those that inhabit it, were the maddest?8 The joke was nourished by the perverse pride Londoners would come to take in the grubbiness... | |
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