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  • The disease begins slowly with mild memory loss - which can often be confused with age-related forgetfulnes, increased and sustained forgetfulness, difficulty in performing daily tasks, problems with kanguage, disorientation of time and place, problems with abstract thinking, mood swings, behavior and personality changes.

    Alzheimer��s disease. 2008

  • In their case, the wilderness bristles with forgetfulnes, apathy and bureaucratic maneuvering.

    Bennett, Thomas W. Jr. 1990

  • The first, forgetfulnes of all good thinges learned before:

    The Scholemaster 1870

  • The first, forgetfulnes of all good thinges learned before:

    The Scholemaster 1570

  • The first, forgetfulnes of all good thinges learned before:

    The Schoolmaster Roger Ascham 1541

  • Sunne, then to dye and sterue in a blinde darkenesse? and so resolued not to turne backe anye more: with a deepe set sighe, I called into memorie, the pleasure and delight that my sences had well neere lost: for the woorke which I had seene was full of maruelous woonders, and thinking by what meane I was depriued of them, I called to remembrance the brasen Lyons, in Salomons Temple, which were of such fierce countenances, as that they would bring men to forgetfulnes.

    Hypnerotomachia The Strife of Loue in a Dreame Francesco Colonna

  • The lyninges of theyr gownes going about their snowie shoulders, and comming downe vppon theyr little round brestes to the lower parte of their wastes, of suche colour as the napkins, leauing to be seene the pleasaunt valleys betwixt their faire brestes, an extreame delight and desired nourishment vnto a narrowe looke and greedie eye, with a thousand small chaynes, pretie iewelles and flowers of golde in a fæminine sort, a sweet bayte to carrie a man headlong into forgetfulnes of hymselfe, beeing inchaunted with choyse and amorous regards, farre passing the desire of any other delycate vyands.

    Hypnerotomachia The Strife of Loue in a Dreame Francesco Colonna

  • 5.4.38: Lest absence cause forgetfulnes to sink within her brest.

    "Songes and Sonettes written by the ryght honorable Lorde Henry Haward late Earle of Surrey, and other" 1557

  • Lethe) is a lake in hell, which the Poetes call the lake of forgetfulnes.

    Shepheardes Calendar 1579

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