A treatise concerning enthusiasme, : as it is an effect of nature, but is mistaken by many for either Divine inspiration or diabolical possession. (1655)
Casaubon, Meric, 1599-1671 · London, : Printed by R.D. and sold by Tho. Johnson, 1655 · leaf 230
ers ) thefpirits^ or thephanfte, to Emhuliafme j as Muflc\^ &c. F Poeticall Snthnfiafmey (the fubje(Sl of thisChapter) there is fo little to be faid particular-ly jbefides what hath been of Rhetoricall; thati needed no: to have made a diftin(5i: head ofit, but that it hath been a common Alaxime… … they be led and agitated by one (pirit, or enthnfi^0[me! Yet Geitain it is, and it is the opinion of beR Ora-tors, and Mafters of Rhecorick, Cicero, Dionyfim Haltcarnaffen^y and others, that Oratory and Poetry, thoughfj feldome concurring in the Profcflfors of each, are verylittle different in…
Enthusiasm
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