Parchappe, while far from believing it to be indispensable to make asylums monuments fitted to excite admiration for the richness of their architecture, and indisposed to emulate our asylums, which, he says, only belong to princely mansions, turns nevertheless from the square courts and the isolated pavilions of Esquirol to apostrophize the former in these glowing terms:- "How much more suited to reanimate torpid intelligence and feeling, or to distract and console melancholy among the unfortunate insane, these edifices majestic in their general effect and comfortable in their details, these grandiose parks, with luxuriant plantations and verdant flowery lawns, whose harmonious association impresses upon English asylums an exceptional character of calm and powerful beauty!"
"Chapters in the History of the Insane in the British Isles"
Daniel Hack Tuke
He worshiped what he called thoughts, would rave about a thought in the abstract, apostrophize an uncaught idea.
"Home Again"
George MacDonald
They say in his sadder vicissitudes he used sometimes to apostrophize fortune in the words of Aeschylus - Thou liftest up, to cast us down again.
"Plutarch-Lives-of-the-noble-Grecians-and-Romans"
Clough, Arthur Hugh