phrenzy

This kind of phrenzy plainly belongs to none but a creature immortal, an archangel ruined, in whose breast a fire of hell may burn high enough and deep enough to scorch down even reason and the innate love of life.

Sermons for the New Life. 1802-1876 1876

In a kind of phrenzy, which does not prevent most logical precision of paragraphing and of numbering of propositions, Comenius discusses all this, becoming more and more like a Bacon bemuddled, as he eyes his PANSOPHIA through the mist.

The Life of John Milton Volume 3 1643-1649 David Masson 1864

In a kind of phrenzy, which does not prevent most logical precision of paragraphing and of numbering of propositions, Comenius discusses all this, becoming more and more like a Bacon bemuddled, as he eyes his PANSOPHIA through the mist.

The Life of John Milton Masson, David, 1822-1907 1859

The phrenzy which is charged upon my brother, must belong to myself.

Wieland; or the Transformation. An American Tale. 1798

The phrenzy which is charged upon my brother, must belong to myself.

Wieland: or, the Transformation, an American Tale Charles Brockden Brown 1790

It seems to be certain, that in their battles they rouse themselves into a kind of phrenzy, and that their bravery is a violent fit of passion.

A General History and Collection of Voyages and Travels — Volume 14 Robert Kerr 1784

The spirit of party is risen to a kind of phrenzy, unknown to former ages, or rather degenerated to a total extinction of honesty and candour — You know I have observed, for some time, that the public papers are become the infamous vehicles of the most cruel and perfidious defamation: every rancorous knave every desperate incendiary, that can afford to spend half a crown or three shillings, may skulk behind the press of a newsmonger, and have a stab at the first character in the kingdom, without running the least hazard of detection or punishment.

The Expedition of Humphry Clinker 2004

In stanza vii. he records and analyzes the "sickness of the soul," the so-called "phrenzy" which had overtaken and changed the "Lady of his

The Works of Lord Byron. Vol. 4 George Gordon Byron Byron 1806

Surely in that moment I should have been possessed by phrenzy, and have destroyed my miserable existence, but that my vow was heard, and that I was reserved for vengeance.

Chapter 7 2010

I trembled with excess of agitation as I said this; there was a phrenzy in my manner, and something, I doubt not, of that haughty fierceness, which the martyrs of old are said to have possessed.

Chapter 6 2010