run mad

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We don’t build things any longer: not vast obelisks covered in hideous hieroglyphs, not immense portals whose depths no mortal can fathom, not mighty sepulchres and vile altars that men run mad to behold.

From Washington Post • Mar. 22, 2016

Poor lady, she’ll run mad When she shall lack it.

From Dramatic Technique by Baker, George Pierce

My respected papa-in-law-to-be seems to have run mad over the fellow, and suffers himself to be regularly led by the nose.

From Eli's Children The Chronicles of an Unhappy Family by Fenn, George Manville

But the worst disease of all will be a certain most horrid, dreadful, malignant, catching, perverse and odious malady, almost epidemical, insomuch that many will run mad upon it.

From Benjamin Franklin; Self-Revealed, Volume II (of 2) A Biographical and Critical Study Based Mainly on his own Writings by Bruce, Wiliam Cabell

But when a tyrant for his theme he had, He loosed the reins, and bid his muse run mad: And though he stumbles in a full career, Yet rashness is a better fault than fear.

From Dryden's Works Vol. 3 (of 18) Sir Martin Mar-All; The Tempest; An Evening's Love; Tyrannic Love by Dryden, John