"When the Brain is hurt by Accident, or the mind disordered by Dreams or Sickness, the Fancy is over-run with wild dismal Ideas, and terrified with a thousand hideous Monsters of its own framing."
Spectator, No. 421 [Pleasures of the Imagination]
Addison, Joseph, and Richard Steele. <u>Selections from the Tatler and the Spectator</u>. Ed. Robert J. Allen. Second ed. New York: Holt, Rinehart, and Winston, Inc., 1970.